Comments on: Time to get serious about child safety education and NURIN Alert! http://tembam.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/time-to-get-serious-about-child-safety-education-and-nurin-alert/ Blogging on the BIG picture Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:36:34 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: tembam http://tembam.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/time-to-get-serious-about-child-safety-education-and-nurin-alert/#comment-1408 tembam Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:03:47 +0000 http://tembam.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-1408 Will keep an eye out for the post. Yeah, science and logic can explain most things except 'things that go bump in the night' sort of stuff! It's fine if it doesn't cause any harm. I guess we are concerend if bomoh misleads with false advertising. I know women who suffered from cancer and refused to get a mastectomy for fear of losing their husband or some totally unrelated worry. Of course the bomoh could not cure the cancer and what's worse is that the cancer spread and caused the woman a lot of misery. She eventually died and guess what? Hubby remarried pronto! The bomoh should not have given her false hope and should have just advised her to go to the doctor if he could not cure her. But money is too easy in the bomoh business! Will keep an eye out for the post. Yeah, science and logic can explain most things except ‘things that go bump in the night’ sort of stuff! It’s fine if it doesn’t cause any harm. I guess we are concerend if bomoh misleads with false advertising. I know women who suffered from cancer and refused to get a mastectomy for fear of losing their husband or some totally unrelated worry. Of course the bomoh could not cure the cancer and what’s worse is that the cancer spread and caused the woman a lot of misery. She eventually died and guess what? Hubby remarried pronto! The bomoh should not have given her false hope and should have just advised her to go to the doctor if he could not cure her. But money is too easy in the bomoh business!

]]> By: Rita Ho http://tembam.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/time-to-get-serious-about-child-safety-education-and-nurin-alert/#comment-1403 Rita Ho Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:21:17 +0000 http://tembam.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-1403 Hi Temban ... Thank you for blogrolling me. You are already one mine. :) I will relate my story this weekend. The circumstances were not drastic but the frightful realization of what could have taken place somehow stuck with me. You are funny about them chilli padi growing and correct too! I now wonder if they actually decayed into the ground and had seedlings from the seeds. And yes if bomohs can align the inconsistent and often drastic weather in the US, they will give Bill Gates a run for being the richest person in the world. I cannot market them lah, Temban. No support from my husband as he is totally into science and logic. He does not even share my belief in God. So, a branch office to sell belacan and durian is doable but not bomoh skills. Hahaha! Hi Temban … Thank you for blogrolling me. You are already one mine. :)

I will relate my story this weekend. The circumstances were not drastic but the frightful realization of what could have taken place somehow stuck with me.

You are funny about them chilli padi growing and correct too! I now wonder if they actually decayed into the ground and had seedlings from the seeds. And yes if bomohs can align the inconsistent and often drastic weather in the US, they will give Bill Gates a run for being the richest person in the world. I cannot market them lah, Temban. No support from my husband as he is totally into science and logic. He does not even share my belief in God.

So, a branch office to sell belacan and durian is doable but not bomoh skills. Hahaha!

]]> By: tembam http://tembam.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/time-to-get-serious-about-child-safety-education-and-nurin-alert/#comment-1396 tembam Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:00:51 +0000 http://tembam.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-1396 Hi Rita! Hey, I noticed your link and had a quick visit to that newsy blog of your's too ( I'm Making Notes - http://ritaho.blogspot.com/ ) and added it to my blog roll. Any friend of Kak Ton's is a friend of mine. The great thing about cyberspace is that it does not matter time, place or whatever, we can still connect. Personal abduction story? Oh my, seriously! Yes, please do write about it, especially how you came out of it unscathed and what we should tell our children what not to do. I do believe if enough people spread the word, we just might change a lot of mindsets, for the better surely! RM5,000? Hooyoo.....that was one hefty scam job! I know quite a few event organisers who hire their regular bomohs for this sort of thing. Imagine the number of chili padi plants sprouting all over the field, hahahaha!!! Really, if it's going to rain, not much we can do. I wonder Rita, if Bomohs only work on rain? How about snow, sleet, tornadoes, twisters, hurricanes, blizzards, and such like. Boy, they'd make a killing in the United States. Listen, you could set up a Bomoh branch office to market their services over there in the US of A! Do drop in whenever you feel like a chat! Take care now! Hi Rita! Hey, I noticed your link and had a quick visit to that newsy blog of your’s too ( I’m Making Notes – http://ritaho.blogspot.com/ ) and added it to my blog roll. Any friend of Kak Ton’s is a friend of mine. The great thing about cyberspace is that it does not matter time, place or whatever, we can still connect.

Personal abduction story? Oh my, seriously! Yes, please do write about it, especially how you came out of it unscathed and what we should tell our children what not to do. I do believe if enough people spread the word, we just might change a lot of mindsets, for the better surely!

RM5,000? Hooyoo…..that was one hefty scam job! I know quite a few event organisers who hire their regular bomohs for this sort of thing. Imagine the number of chili padi plants sprouting all over the field, hahahaha!!! Really, if it’s going to rain, not much we can do. I wonder Rita, if Bomohs only work on rain? How about snow, sleet, tornadoes, twisters, hurricanes, blizzards, and such like. Boy, they’d make a killing in the United States. Listen, you could set up a Bomoh branch office to market their services over there in the US of A!

Do drop in whenever you feel like a chat! Take care now!

]]> By: Rita Ho http://tembam.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/time-to-get-serious-about-child-safety-education-and-nurin-alert/#comment-1395 Rita Ho Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:18:23 +0000 http://tembam.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-1395 Hi Tembam ... Kak Ton (Tok Mommy) recommended your site to me in a at her blog re Sharlinie. I must say you have done a superb job in updating us on her news, creating awareness of child safety and the need of public consciousness. Congrats! I will take your lead and share a personal abduction story so that others may learn from it. Not easy for me to bring back the details but I should do it. I hope you don't mind that I put a link to your site when I write about Sharlinie. It is so very true, what you said about the bomoh angle. I used to be involved in organizing the defence shows for MINDEF and remember being asked to authorize RM5000 to stop the rain because of an air show. They had this ritual of poking a dozen of so chilli padi on the site and sprinkling a kilo of rice over them. All that for lima ribu ringgit! But the rain stayed away that day. It was the only break in a week of rain. The next show, the fee doubled and the expense wasn't approved. We handed out umbrellas instead. It also did not rain! Enjoy your weekend, Temban. Again, great stuff here. :) Hi Tembam … Kak Ton (Tok Mommy) recommended your site to me in a at her blog re Sharlinie. I must say you have done a superb job in updating us on her news, creating awareness of child safety and the need of public consciousness. Congrats!

I will take your lead and share a personal abduction story so that others may learn from it. Not easy for me to bring back the details but I should do it. I hope you don’t mind that I put a link to your site when I write about Sharlinie.

It is so very true, what you said about the bomoh angle. I used to be involved in organizing the defence shows for MINDEF and remember being asked to authorize RM5000 to stop the rain because of an air show. They had this ritual of poking a dozen of so chilli padi on the site and sprinkling a kilo of rice over them. All that for lima ribu ringgit! But the rain stayed away that day. It was the only break in a week of rain. The next show, the fee doubled and the expense wasn’t approved. We handed out umbrellas instead. It also did not rain!

Enjoy your weekend, Temban. Again, great stuff here. :)

]]> By: tembam http://tembam.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/time-to-get-serious-about-child-safety-education-and-nurin-alert/#comment-1393 tembam Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:09:50 +0000 http://tembam.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-1393 Hardly ever watched the show myself. Not sure if they still have it. Somehow the depth of understanding on issues was sorely lacking in the shows analysis. More for entertainment rather than educational. These type of shows have now largely been replaced by all those "Misteri" type stuff. Now I know why Malaysians are such an apathetic lot. Just blame it all on black magic or mysterious forces and call in the bomoh! No need to come up with a logical, practical system like the Amber Alert. So when Malaysians have problems "Who you gonna call?" - The Bomohs! Stop rain, call bomoh! Mental problems, call bomoh! Child abducted, call bomoh! Teen pregnancy, call bomoh! Grow money, call bomoh! Win elections, call bomoh! For love, call bomoh! Hardly ever watched the show myself. Not sure if they still have it. Somehow the depth of understanding on issues was sorely lacking in the shows analysis. More for entertainment rather than educational. These type of shows have now largely been replaced by all those “Misteri” type stuff. Now I know why Malaysians are such an apathetic lot. Just blame it all on black magic or mysterious forces and call in the bomoh! No need to come up with a logical, practical system like the Amber Alert. So when Malaysians have problems “Who you gonna call?” – The Bomohs! Stop rain, call bomoh! Mental problems, call bomoh! Child abducted, call bomoh! Teen pregnancy, call bomoh! Grow money, call bomoh! Win elections, call bomoh! For love, call bomoh!

]]> By: Munira http://tembam.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/time-to-get-serious-about-child-safety-education-and-nurin-alert/#comment-1391 Munira Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:45:06 +0000 http://tembam.wordpress.com/?p=221#comment-1391 Didn't we use to have that silly and rather crass true-story-dramamentary called <i>Kisah Benar</I>? Well, at least it was rather a good attempt, though it kinda fell flat in the end. Didn’t we use to have that silly and rather crass true-story-dramamentary called Kisah Benar? Well, at least it was rather a good attempt, though it kinda fell flat in the end.

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