Sabtu, 27 Oktober 2007

Cerulien Miftahul di Aceh



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My Nonagenarian Neighbor Downstairs or Marbles with Mussolini

It struck me, as we sat one morning, coffee in hand, the sun washing in through the picture window, blanketing the conversation.

She's 92 years old. That's amazing.

Two weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to sit down with my spitfire of a downstairs neighbor, Mrs. Inge Elsas. I've mentioned her earlier on the blog, but I thought she was in her early eighties. And I didn't know the full extent of her fascinating life story.

Born in Hamburg, Germany in 1915 to a Jewish family, Inge could not get her equivalent of a high school diploma in 1933 due to her religion as the Nazis rose to power. She left Germany and her family for Switzerland and subsequently ended up working as a governess for Italian counts. At one point she recalled playing with some of her charges at a palace in Italy, only to have Mussolini, who knew the count, crouch down and to play marbles with her and the children.

As the Nazis moved into Italy and foreigners were told to leave, Inge got a job as a governess with an American ambassador's family traveling around Europe. At one point she spent Christmas in Norway with the Ambassador Joseph Harriman's family. After later stints with an ambassadorial family in Brazil and in Washington, D.C., Inge moved to New Orleans where she headed a school for girls, given her background in childcare and special needs education and care.

She met her future husband there. Like her, he was a Jewish immigrant who was not a U.S. citizen. Somehow, he was drafted for World War II despite his non-citizen status for his language skills. While serving in Europe, he was captured and imprisoned in a German concentration camp. Unlike Inge's family, he survived and returned to the U.S. after the war when he married the girl he had left behind.

For fifty years, Inge has lived downstairs in the small flat here on Liberty Street. Her husband deceased for some years now, she lives alone and still rents. She can't bear to leave all the good memories in the place she raised her children. She loves the sun and has one little den room in the back full to the brim with items decked out in sunflowers. It's a mirror on her personality, which, despite her severe osteoporosis, is always cheerful and lively.

Her walls are hung with awards from various civic organizations and photos of the people she loves. One certificate denotes her status as a distinguished alumna of Tulane (Social Work degree). She still volunteers five days a week at various nursing homes, her temple, and other institutions, getting picked up by her "guardian angels," a group of friends who transport her since she never got her driver's license. She even teaches Bible classes to senior citizens - most of whom are Christian. "We look for the themes," she explains with a bit of a smile regarding the New Testament.

As she recounted the story of Katrina (luckily, the floodwaters never got up to the floorboards here), I sit in awe. She paints a vivid picture of the heap of junk and detritus outside in front of the house, the awful smells emanating from a destroyed fridge. Two of my own great grandfathers, who lived to be 95 and 97, welled up from my childhood. I could see Grandpa Isaac, age 90, carrying chunks of tornado-downed logs ever so slowly to the wagon along with my uncles on my grandparents' farm.

This is a person who has conquered age, scoffs at it, wobbles a bit without her cane as she gets up to wish me off to my studies but doesn't think twice about it.

"You are so quiet upstairs. And you are sure you can't hear my television when I have to turn it up sometimes? Then this is working out very well."

Yes, people with hearing aids make good neighbors. Not because parties go unnoticed, but because their lives are so very interesting, so hidden, so wrapped in the commonplace.

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10.26.2007

Early Bird Catches the Worm

One last word on David Horowitz

Today the College Democrats chair, Oliver Kiefer, wrote a column in the Badger Herald that attacked the College Republicans for bringing David Horowitz to campus. While I do not always agree with the way in which Mr. Horowitz expresses his opinions, they are nonetheless legitimate critiques of Islamic extremism.

Having participated in all of the discussions about whether or not we should bring Mr. Horowitz to speak at the university, I can tell you with absolute certainty that none of the College Republican leadership harbors any prejudice against Muslims as a group. Contrary to Mr. Kiefer's insinuations that we brought him here for racist or bigoted reasons, we accepted Mr. Horowitz's offer because we knew that it would bring attention to the issue of Islamic extremism. Had we only shown a movie or held our own, smaller event no one on campus would have given Islamo-Fascism Awareness week a second thought - nor would we be having this conversation.

What troubles me is that Mr. Kiefer would rather bring up irrelevant points such as the gay marriage ban that passed last November. In his words,
How can he, and the College Republicans who sponsored his lecture, criticize the governments in that region when they advocate for a hateful constitutional amendment that discriminates against homosexuals in Wisconsin?

Leaving aside the fact that the CRs did not take a position last fall because there was no unanimity among the leadership, the amendment is in no way comparable to the summary executions and killings of women and homosexuals that take place in radical Islamic societies. It is absolutely irresponsible for Oliver to imply that the CRs or Mr. Horowitz are bigots and racists when he offers no proof.

Mr. Kiefer chastises the CRs for bringing an intolerant speaker to the university and for being intolerant ourselves by associating with Mr. Horowitz. What exactly was the intolerance that bothered Oliver? Was it Mr. Horowitz's intolerance of radical Islam? Was it Mr. Horowtiz's statements that moderate Muslims need to do more to stand up to radical elements? What exactly was it?

Many times during his speech, Mr. Horowitz stressed that the group most often targeted and killed by extremists is other Muslims. The Taliban killed thousands upon thousands of their own people in the name of religious purity. The "insurgents" in Iraq that are killing tens of thousands of people are killing fellow Muslims, in part for no other reason than those who are targeted do not share the terrorist's twisted views of Islam. If Mr. Horowitz were really a bigot, why would he take the time to explain that part of the problem? He easily could have focused solely on terrorism aimed at Jews and Christians.

If we frame the problem in these terms: that Muslims, Jews and Christians are all at risk of being targeted by Islamic radicals, then the current struggle in which we are engaged is truly global. In the eyes of the extremists we are all infidels and equally deserving of death. In this light the purpose of IFAW is to unite and not divide.

I and the CRs that brought David Horowitz to this university see the threat in these terms. The effort this week is designed to do nothing beyond promoting the discussion of the dangers of radical Islam and how they threaten all of us. We have no problem with peaceful Muslims and Mr. Kiefer and the College Democrats know that. It is deplorable that he would imply otherwise.

It really disturbs me that the response is not so much about the substance of Mr. Horowitz's remarks, but about other issues that are irrelevant to the subject of Islamic extremism. Over at The Hippie Perspective, Erik complains about the state of American discourse and cites the General Betray-us ad in the New York Times, the Rush "phony soldier" smear and the Graeme Frost controversy.

What Erik doesn't mention though - and I know he does this intentionally - is that the political Left is responsible for the ad attacking General Petraeus and the attack on Rush - whose comments were taken entirely out of context. The attacks on the Frost family were completely out of line. The problem is that Erik, Oliver and others on the Left refuse to acknowledge the bad acts by their own side and focus solely on the mistakes of the Right.

If you want a debate, let's have one. Do you want to discuss the dangers of allowing Islamic extremists to gain control of another state in Iraq? Or how about the horrible treatment of women and minorities in places like Iran or Syria? Oh, that's right, I'm a conservative and a Republican so I can't talk about those things.

Explain how that isn't just a little bit intolerant. Seriously, tell me why it's okay for liberals and others on the Left to insult me as a racist and a bigot without any substance to the accusations. Have we really gotten so politically correct that I can't even mention that Islamic extremism is a danger and we need to face it head on?

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10.25.2007

If you're feeling down, don't look at this post

Last night, I saw the first tv ad this side of last December for a Christmas movie. Though it's been getting chillier and there are leaves on the ground, I hadn't actually realized that it's the end of October already.

Increasingly there is less of this:


and much more of this:

I was going to mention how my favorite time of the year is from the end of October through the beginning of January, but for some reason that snowy picture looks particularly dismal right now. One the one hand, I like the warm feeling of the holidays, winter food, fresh snow, and the sound of snow falling as well as on the other sun, green plants, thunderstorms, and long days.

I'm under the impression that the rest of the country thinks Wisconsin is some kind of frozen wasteland. Excluding the summer humidity, I love our climate. It has just enough of every season. I'd probably get weird if I lived in a climate without snow.

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Harsh Geometry, East New Orleans

10.24.2007

Granny Cart Lady



Every college campus has its colorful, iconic, eccentric, well-known characters. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, it's hard to miss figures like Scanner Dan, Piccolo Guy, and Tunnel Bob.

Here at Tulane, it's the infamous "Granny Cart Lady," an ancient woman with her namesake cart who ostensibly sits in on classes and generally drives people nuts/creeps people out.

I haven't encountered her yet, but one of my classmates here at Tulane posted this sweet video.

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Didn't see this one coming...

UPDATE: Here is the Journal Sentinel story.

The Wheeler Report is reporting that the state Senate Democrats have ousted Judy Robson as the Majority Leader and replaced her with Russ Decker. I don't have anything to link to right now, but I will update as soon as something becomes available.

The obvious question is: Why? Governor Doyle just gave Robson an endorsement and she did negotiate a fairly liberal - in terms of spending - state budget. Well, I am sure that Decker will tell us, but I doubt it will be the whole story.

My bet is that the extremely liberal Democrats in the Senate are furious that Robson caved on taxes and caved on Healthy Wisconsin. The problem here isn't that Robson introduced the ill-advised government run health care plan, but that she didn't fight hard enough for it.

It will be interesting to see what the Senators say.

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Colbert '08 - Seepage and Flow

Today on Drudge, we see the following link:

Colbert's Campaign May Run Afoul of Law...

It links to a story at ABC News published today.

October 24 - ABC News

Given that this point was made earlier in rather blatant fashion at two high profile political observer sentinel outposts, I'm surprised it took so long to trickle up - or down - to Drudge.

October 19 - Politico.com
October 23 - Slate.com

In the face of today's hyper-news cycle, the five day lag makes the story look like an erratic boulder that finally worked its way through the ice to the ablation zone of the media glacier.

What about Digg? Any better job in getting word to the masses?

Digg - nothing in the highly enlightening comments on an items soliciting help for Colbert that I can see that makes the point (the ABC story has started registering) but, from what I can tell, there was one from 5 days ago that only got 18 Diggs by today.

What took so long for the basic tidbit of legal analysis to spread? I suppose you could argue the mainstream news outlets didn't consider the run a legitimate phenomenon out of the gates.

And I haven't even looked at the 1,297 Discussion Topics or 30,672 wall posts on the 1,000,000 Strong for Colbert Facebook group to see if illegality was mentioned there early on...

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Elephant Ears

Want to Teach English in China?

An Australian friend of mine just opened a school in the Chinese city of Shenyang:

Hey Buddy, how are things?

Just letting you know my english school has begun trading. If you are interested in returning or have some friends who would like to come to China earning good money let me know.

Hearing his stories this summer about teaching English in Harbin, China, the venture seems like a pretty good gig - the exchange rate is favorable. The cultural experience is handy. And the adventure is apparent.

He's currently looking for native speakers to join the school as teachers.

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10.23.2007

Katrina Aid for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Qatar














"Qatar?"

I was a bit perplexed as a friend of a friend announced the news a few weeks ago.
As a Tulane student affected by Hurricane Katrina, she had just discovered she was slated to receive a $36,000 scholarship. [Congratulatory] Annually. [Amazed] From the nation of Qatar. [?]

How odd. Hugo Chavez offering to help as a means of political gamesmanship I can understand. But Qatar? I know the U.S. military brings a good deal of economic activity to the country - I believe Mike H has been to the capital, Doha - but petroleum revenues must be high to allow for such an outlay.

During his visit to the US one month after the storm, the Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani had pledged an extraordinary sum of $100m on behalf of Qatar to assist the hurricane victims.

The small peninsular Persian Gulf nation's "Emir's Fund" aid money is also funding new mobile health units here in New Orleans. It's a respectable political gesture for what looked like a big hazy blob of sand out the window this summer as I flew over the Persian Gulf between Bahrain and Dubai.

Thanks, Qatar.

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10.22.2007

Ann Coulter at Tulane University for Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week - Firsthand Account

Despite the continued rain and flooding, I ventured back to McAlister Auditorium on the Tulane campus to watch this evening's circus. A near-capacity crowd got verbally rowdy - from both ends of the political spectrum. But what about Ann herself?

The night's fare, as she stood ironically on stage under a communal symbol - Louisiana's giant old Pelican that resembled a pterodactyl feeding its young - was typically provocative and preposterously over the line:

Verbatim quotes from Ann Coulter, as heard from my seat on the main aisle:

"Where are the reflective Arabs saying 'Why do we hate the Jews?'"

"Do we confront them or offer to perform exotic fetishes on them?" - on Islamo-Fascists

On the Guantanamo detainees: "the little darlings" and "savages" and "Ruthless terrorists who would slit your throat if they got the chance are treated better than you when you fly coach...to visit grandma in Kansas."

"At what point will liberals stop genuflecting before Islam?"

"Democrats are coming up with more ways to lose indirectly." - on the Armenian Genocide resolution

"They are Muslims." - on Turkey (which is arguably really not the case - Attaturk, secularism, etc.)

"I can't even believe how stupid that woman is." - on Nancy Pelosi

"We've killed 20,000 al-Queda in Iraq." - to wild applause (confusing, though, because is she referring to "Al-Queda in Iraq" or "Al-Queda" who were in Iraq?

"If Iraq is a holocaust it is the most tepid, slow-moving holocaust I've ever heard of." - pointing out that more people died in one day of World War II missions than in Iraq (hmm)

"They're like Democrats - with more gumption." - on the insurgents in Iraq (again, hmm)

"Maybe we could get the weapons inspectors looking for gays in Iran." - must admit, even I laughed at this one

"You put [FDR] on trial for being a war criminal or shut up about Iraq." - to a questioner

"Yeah, I think we oughta gin up the old treason prosecution machine." - on traitors

"I don't think it's gonna happen - until I become President." - on repealing the 19th Amendment, which allowed women to vote

"Unless you wanna nuke the entire Middle East, we've gotta take this country by country." - to a questioner

"What do we do with Muslims in America? You could deport them." - to a questioner and widespread gasps in the audience (wow)

"No, we don't know every time Ruth Bader Ginsburg takes a crap." - on government surveillance and her support of using it to catch terrorists

"I don't know." - response to final question regarding treatment of people in China

UPDATE: Here's a synopsis of the evening from the Tulane administration's news outlet, the Tulane New Wave.

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Tulane Classes Cancelled for Flooding

This just in over the emergency texting alert at 1:56 p.m.:

Classes cancelled at Tulane's Uptown and Elmwood campuses and the School of Public Health. Visit emergency.tulane.edu for more.

Remember those torrential rains I mentioned this morning? Well, by the time 1 p.m. had rolled around, Freret Street in front of the Tulane University Law School was flooded but for about a foot-wide area at the crown of street - and that was awash with waves.

It's a wet one out there.

Oh is it wet.



















I was unable to reach the Tulane emergency site.

I could hardly walk anywhere on campus given the flooded sidewalks and rivulets running full bore off the lawns and paths toward the gutters.

Here in the law library, custodial staff are coming in with shop vacs. A gray wastebasket is jammed high into one of the now-vacant book alcoves on the east side of the room, presumably catching water from a leak.

Wonder if Ann Coulter's appearance is called off as well?

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Some Thermodynamic Observations

The class I like the most this semester is Thermodynamics; it's the study of heat and power.

I've come across a few sobering thoughts in thermodynamics. For example, no matter how novel a new design for an engine is, it's maximum possible efficiency has already been determined by the temperature difference between how hot one can burn the fuel and the cooler surroundings. To make machines do work, there has to be a temperature difference to exploit.

Another thought is the concept of entropy. Entropy is the measure of uniformity of energy. A glass of water with an ice cube has lower entropy than a few minutes later when the ice has melted and it's all water.

Entropy makes certain processes irreversible and the total amount of entropy is always increasing in the universe. That means the whole universe is like a giant glass of water with a constantly melting ice cube--energy is getting irreversibly dispersed rendering it useless.

Sometime in the distant future, the universe will use up all its useful energy. Stars will fade out and matter will cool off and equilibrium will be reached with the vacuum of space.

The other thing is that government is just like entropy. The total amount of both is always increasing, they both reduce efficiency, and they both can never be reduced or destroyed.

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Tulane Awaits Coulter


















And sets out some interesting guidelines:

Student groups wishing to protest are required to register with Student Affairs. "It is not our attempt to deter anyone from [protesting], but we are simply trying to manage the event by knowing who and how protests will occur," Assistant Vice President for Campus Life Kevin Bailey said.

Why? While grounded in the law, the policy seems antithetical to the nature of an American university.

As of this morning, however, the torrential rains, if they continue at their current pace, are looking like more of a hurdle to any potential protesters. Half of the sidewalks are presently covered in inches of flowing water.

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It's the Great Pumpkin!

After a week of cold and intermittent rain, Sunday dawned beautiful and sunny, and I had a plan.

In Azeri, Sunday is literally called "Bazaar Day," and I had an important item to pick up. Part of our mission here is to share American culture with Azeris, and I planned to do just that.

Over breakfast tea, I told my host family that I was going to buy a pumpkin. At first, they were skeptical. "Why the deuce would you buy a pumpkin?" I told them it was for a very special American holiday.

Then they were thrifty. "You know, we have a bunch of pumpkins stacked up upstairs -- you can use one of those! Buying one at the bazaar will be 10 manat!" I told them the upstairs pumpkins were not big enough.

Then they were thriftier. "You could use a watermelon!" But I insisted.

So it was off to market to buy a fat hen pumpkin. Two stalls had pumpkins for sale, but all were far too small to carve a face into.

Then, way in the back, there it was: a nice-sized, very green gourd: the perfect pumkin. It wasn't quite Great Pumpkin proportions, but it was the biggest one around, and I could see that it would do just fine.

Pleased with my (only three manat) purchase, I drank some more tea, and then rushed home to do the honors.

I gleefully began cutting and gutting away, scooping out innards by the handful (a thing I hated doing as a kid, actually). I sketched out a face, and proceeded to carve it: triangle eyes and vampire fangs, as I noted to a friend in a text message, "= spooky x10." And indeed it was: a green pumpkin-vampire leering out an unwary passersby, one corner of its mouth (intentionally? unintentionally? Who can really say?)crookedly perked up.

I showed it to my host mother. I quickly got to my feet, expecting to have to catch the poor woman in a swoon of fear at the fright I'd created with just a dull Azeri knife and some good ol' American stick-to-it-iveness.

She laughed, in the same way you'd laugh at a little kid who was doing something goofy for no apparent or understandable reason.

My host brother strolled by, and I beckoned to him. "Look what I have created!"

"Oh, that's nice," he said. "What do you do with it?"

Defeated, I brought Vladimir to my room, a sanctuary of spookiness in an unspookable country.

Now, if only my copy of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! would get here...

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Unexpected surprises

The guy who runs the good Internet cafe is rocking some DEL tha Funkee Homosapien, but only just for a moment. Soon enough, it's back to weird Russian pop and Celine Dion.

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10.21.2007

Vampire Cops Sexually Assaulting Students at Tulane?

I don't know quite what to make of all this...

"I woke up the next day, I had no clothes on, and I had two deep holes on my neck... I didn't know what to do," John said. "I was scared… I didn't know what had happened."

I trust some larger media outlets than the Tulane Hullabaloo will pick this up and get to the bottom of the allegations.

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Kehidupan aku di dunia malang

Semalam saya menerima email dari salah seorang subscriber maskahwin.com yang menceritakan tentang nasib kakak beliau yang baru sahaja kehilangan pacar. Pacar kakak beliau itu masih muda.. baru berumur 16 tahun. Tegap & sihat.. tetapi, tiba-tiba sahaja meninggal dunia akibat hepatitis B. Sememangnya ajal & maut itu di tangan tuhan.. tiada siapa yang dapat meramal kedatangannya….

Kakak beliau itu, mempunyai 6 orang anak. Selama ini, hanya pacar sahajalah yang bekerja, mankala, kaka beliau itu tidak bekerja dan menjadi suri rumah sepenuh masa. Sudah tentunya, selama ini, hanya si suami lah tempat mereka sekeluarga bergantung dan mendapatkan sumber pendapatan untuk menyara hidup mereka sekeluarga.

Tetapi kini… tiba-tiba semuanya berubah dalam sekelip mata. Si suami, meningalkan isteri dan anak-anak buat selama-lamanya tanpa “sempat mengucapkan selamat tinggal” dan meninggalkan apa-apa bekalan untuk si isteri & anak-anak meneruskan hidup mereka..

Cuba anda bayangkan…. anda berada di tempat si ibu tadi..

Tidak bekerja…. ada 6 orang anak.. dan baru sahaja kehilangan suami yang merupakan satu-satunya punca pendapatan untuk menyara kehidupan mereka sekeluarga…

Mana nak cari duit bayar hutang kereta? hutang rumah? duit sekolah anak-anak? makan-minum anak-anak? pakaian? lagi-lagi dah nak dekat raya nie…. oh!.. memang sesuatu yang menyedihkan..

Kepada golongan-golongan suami… jangan biarkan perkara ini terjadi kepada isteri & anak-anak anda..

Kepada golongan-golongan isteri pula.. sila ingatkan suami anda agar tidak meninggalkan anda dalam keadaan yang terkontang-kanting seperti ibu malang di atas..

Apa yang boleh anda lakukan, paksa mereka dapatkan polisi insuran/takaful sekarang juga! (jika mereka masih tidak mempunyai sebarang polisi insuran lagi)… buat masa ini, itulah salah satu kaedah yang terbaik untuk menghalang “nasib malang” tersebut menimpa diri anda. Tetapi.. kalau suami anda masih berdegil juga dan tidak mahu mendapatkan polisi insurans.. takde masalah beb! (sambil tangan menunjuk simbol peace)… anda boleh sahaja dapatkan polisi insuran dan meletakkan nama suami anda sebagai “pihak yang diinsurankan”.. dengan cara ini, jika sesuatu perkara buruk berlaku kepada suami anda.. kompem beb! (sambil tangan menunjukkan simbol OK) anda akan mendapat duit pampasan itu 100% .. tak perlu nak faraid-faraid (untuk penerangan lebih lanjut bagaimana anda boleh memperolehi 100% wang pampasan insuran suami anda.. sila hubungi agen insuran bertauliah berhampiran anda)

Alangkah bersyukurnya.. jika si suami tadi meninggalkan sedikit bekalan kewangan yang bernilai RM100,000 ( hasil pampasan dari polisi insuran). Tidaklah hidup si isteri tadi amat tertekan. Sekurang-kurangnya ia dapat memberikan sedikit ruang untuk si isteri & anak-anak mengatur hidup mereka dan menampung perbelanjaan hidup mereka buat sementara waktu. Sebelum si isteri tadi dapat mencari pekerjaan & sumber pendapatan yang baru untuk menyara keluarga mereka.

Baiklah.. itu cerita kalau si suami tadi belum meninggal dunia.. tetapi dalam kisah akak diatas. Si suami telah meninggal dunia, tiada sebarang polisi insuran, tiada harta & wang simpanan, isteri tidak bekerja dan terpaksa menangung 6 orang anak yang masih lagi kecil dan bersekolah.. ditambah lagi.. anakyang paling kecil berusia 2 tahun dan masih menyusu badan (apabila menyusu badan.. ia bermakna.. si bayi tidak boleh berenggang dengan si ibu lebih dari 3-4 jam)

Secara jujurnya, saya memang tiada idea & cadangan untuk diberikan kepada si kakak tersebut.. saya tidak tahu bagaimana situasi beliau yang sebenar, saya tidak tahu apa keupayaan beliau, saya tidak tahu apa kemahiran yang beliau miliki dan saya juga tidak tahu bagaimana persekitaran serta orang-oraang di sekeliling beliau.

Jadi.. saya minta maaf kepada pengirim email tersebut kerana tidak dapat membalas email beliau. Mungkin pembaca-pembaca blog ini dapat memberikan sedikit cadangan @ nasihat @ pendapat kepada si ibu malang tersebut…

Kemudian.. akan saya khabarkan kepada si adik tadi untuk membaca cadangan-cadangan anda semua terhadap kakak beliau di blog ini..

P/s:- saya wujudkan satu kategori baru untuk blog ini dan menamakan iasebagai “khidmat layanan masyarakat”..