This Time It Happened..

Just got news that Kimberly got the H1N1 Influenza A. Hope the Kuwaiti Hospital for Contagious Disease will take good care of my dear niece. Mei Yeen and Peter, be strong.

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Guidelines For H1N1

Safety of the children in school is the utmost and ultimate responsibility entrusted by parents to the teachers and administrators in school. But they have a guideline to follow... To put it in another way, they are actually puppets waiting for the strings to be pulled. When they don't follow guidelines, they are deemed "engkar perintah". When they follow them, people will tell them that even a monkey will know what to do when people under your care are even under the slightest danger. Their animal instinct will tell them to protect their young at all cost. Are we, being higher level than animals, realise this? Let's hope the people drafting the guidelines are aware of our concern. Better still, if they don't close the schools where some of the students are affected by the virus, transfer these guideline makers' children there and see what happens. Will they make their children go to school?

An Addition to the H1N1 Statistics

Sad news rude woke me up from my sleep at 3.30 this morning. Tey's son succumbed to the H1N1 illness to be Malaysia's 12th Influenza A victim.

He called me 3.20 a.m., but i didn't answer only to wake up suddenly 10 minutes later to find a missed call and a message from another friend, Nazarudin, to inform me of Tey's only son's passing.

I returned his call at 3.45 a.m. Tey politely apologised for disturbing me and told me that his son has already gone to another place at 2.45 a.m. I choked to assure him it was perfectly alright and asked him to take care.

A wake will be held at the Hainanese Association Batu Pahat and Tey Jr. will be cremated tomorrow. RIP!

GREAT NEWS!!

Just called my friend, Tey and things seem to be improving. His son is responding to treatment and is better although still in critical condition. Don't worry, my friend, our prayers are for your son and family.

H1N1 Nuisance

I regret to to post this but I feel the need to inform friends and relatives of this story.

My good friend, Mr. Tey Ah Ho's youngest and only son is in the i.c.u. for this disease! They have been quarantined and my thoughts and prayers go out to Tey and Susan (his wife) and hope they will brace themselves for any eventuality.

I feel so helpless not being able to help out. Be strong, my friend.