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Illegal dumps are everywhere. So, where does the buck stop? Jerry Francis reveals the dirty details – page 3  IPOH ECHO February 01 - 15, 2008 Your Community Newspaper ISLAND MEMORIES continued from page 1 www.ipohecho.com IPOH IPOH’S ‘TOP-SECRET’ echoYour Community Newspaper far to confirm the seriousness claims that the waste collection of the problem. There are in his neighbourhood used to GARBAGE TRUCKS From the Editor’s Desk By Fathol Zaman Bukhari rubbish dumps that are just be thrice weekly _ now they 100 metres apart from one are lucky if their rubbish bins another. There are illegal get collected once a week. THERE ARE – rubbish dumps even in Civic-conscious Ipohites GETTING BY commercial areas, just outside have taken steps managing SPOOKED the City Council Complex. domestic waste. Households Only 64 of the 122 are now keeping seafood and ALARMISTS 20,000 vehicles allotted for waste poultry in freezers until the disposal duties operate daily. dumpsters show up. “What By our own correspondent. I was looking forward to senses. The mad rush to fill government. and small - selling controlled OF THESE This would make for an else does one do?” asks a the fireworks display that up was an exercise in futility There was no end to goods for profits across the appallingly inefficient rating ratepayer. “If we leave bags When Ipoh Echo manded to know who had has become commonplace after all. the blame game. Hawkers Golok River in Thailand. DISGUSTING even within a normal waste in the bins, we have to live staff photographer, Rosli given Rosli permission to in major towns all over They would have been throughout Perak cut down on Smuggling is a way of collection scenario. For a with stench; they’d be filled DUMPS Mansor, attempted to dis- take his photographs. He Malaysia whenever the better off watching the food prepared for customers. life for these border dwellers rubbish-laden city like Ipoh, with maggots and think of all cover why almost 50% of was apparently unimpressed country ushers in a new fireworks than queue-jumping Ah Fook, the char keow as it is their livelihood. It it amounts to a disaster. the scavenging stray dogs and by Jerry Francis the city’s garbage dump- by the storekeeper’s ear- year. This New Year was no at the petrol pumps and going teow seller at Ipoh’s famous has been going on for ages. cats.” sters were non-function- lier reaction, the fact that the exception. bonkers over rumours and Holly Wood Restaurant Unless stern action is taken, Ipoh, once described as chased the erring dumpster CLEAR THE DUMPS Others think differently. ing, he encountered secu- gates of the compound were City Council had speculation that failed to contemplated raising the price smuggling activities will ‘the cleanest town’ in the and its crew. FIRST! They throw their plastic bags rity controls and authori- wide-open, that there was no organised a 5-day programme materialise. of his fried keow teow by an continue, come rain or shine. country, has become littered They got an earful! into rivers or just add them tarian attitude worthy of a guard on duty at the entrance to celebrate the end of 2007 additional 30 sen if his supply The problem is economic with illegal rubbish dumps. Datuk Ismail’s words: For some unexplained to uncollected heaps on their nuclear installation. and that there were certainly and the coming of 2008. All ANOTHER CRISIS of cooking oil was reduced to in nature. It has to do with The deterioration from “We want to stress to the reason we now hesitate way to work. It is an expedient Finding the gate to no warning signs suggesting activities were centred at the a trickle. supply and demand. “cleanest” to “rubbish people, particularly the MBI’s City Service Office the area was one covered by MBI Square and they had a But the excitement did The government deemed Demand for cooking strewn” is nothing less than council’s employees, that we and Workshop compound top-security precautions. profound effect on Ipohites, not end there. Before the first it fit to respond in kind and oil and flour escalates during a scandal. do care about their welfare. in Buntong wide open and He was equally unim- especially the young. week of January was over respond it did. festivities and this is nothing Current statistics are In this way, we hope to instill unguarded when he arrived, pressed with the photogra- Music and songs are a another crisis hit the country. strange. Profiteering is alarming. confidence in the employees Rosli drove in for a hundred pher’s very reasonable ob- guaranteed crowd puller and This time it was for real. FLOODING THE inherent in all businessmen. Consider this: there are so they may deliver dedicated yards or so and parked his servation that lines of non- the organisers were only too The nation was faced MARKET Who doesn’t want to earn now more than 20,000 illegal and efficient service to the car. Lines of broken down functioning garbage trucks happy to oblige. While the with a shortage of the more? Wholesalers and garbage dumps scattered all residents of the city. trucks were crammed into hardly constituted the sort of youngsters were drawn to domestic kind that would On Tuesday, January retailers are equally culpable. over the city – an average “What the City Council every available space around subject matter requiring spe- the stage and booths erected turn ugly if the problem was 8, 2008, it released 70,000 The government should of one dump to every 33 expects in return is cooperation a central workshop. cial permits to photograph. for the special occasion, allowed to fester. Cooking oil tonnes of cooking oil into the anticipate these developments residents! And the numbers from all residents,’ the Datuk With that the official another event was unfolding and wheat flour were in short market. The supply of wheat and react accordingly. It are mounting. added. ASSENT GIVEN ordered Rosli to hand over with much less fanfare than supply. flour was also increased to should adopt a proactive Particularly worrying is The then mayor right- his film immediately. anticipated. the fact that the City Council fully believed that team effort It reached such a critical satisfy demand. The flooding stance rather than a wait-and- Gathering his camera level that rationing was of the market with cooking see attitude. appears to be ineffectual was needed to keep Ipoh tick- And another . . . gear, the photographer ORDER: JOSTLING MOTORISTS – quite unable to cope with or ing. He saw that the Council considered an option by the oil and wheat flour helped The setting up of the approached what appeared contain the situation. had to lead with him at its talking about keeping the move, an unthinking one that DELETE THEM! authorities. overcome the problem. National Price Council and to be a male storekeeper I was about to make my President of the A major disaster that the hype surrounding the helm. city clean. We leave the fails to consider the hazardous immediately outside the Rosli explained he end-of-the-year drive around NO-NONSENSE Spurred by their hard- topic alone. Why tackle it effect the simple act does to workshop complex and was working with a modern the city to join the rest in the APPROACH working leader, councillors when there is the mammoth the health situation of the explained he had arrived to digital camera and there was merriment but got no further began thinking how they problem of clearing rubbish city. take pictures of the numerous no film. than the traffic junction The slide into heaps might encourage the dumps, a task which is now There are mattress off-road dumpsters. The “Then delete all leading to Jalan Tasek. of unmanaged mess seems community at large to regard proving beyond the capacity sellers who cry “Tilam lama, man nodded his assent and the photographs you The three petrol kiosks unstoppable. The closest Ipoh their Council as a body with of our Council? tukar baru” (old mattress for Rosli went to work. have taken,” ordered the near the junction were jam- came to regaining its 1960s a heart. Soon they adopted the Protect. Cover-up. Look new one!) and, after making Rosli had completed workshop official. packed with motorists jostling clean image was in 1993 when “We Care” motto. Employees the other way and hope it all a sale, chuck the old one taking approximately 10 The photographer felt, for space at the pumps. They Datuk Ismail Shah Bodin took wore T-shirts with “We Care” sorts itself out in the long run. into the next illegal dump individual photographs under the circumstances, had joined the mad rush to over as Datuk Bandar. emblazoned on them. The trouble is it won’t. they pass. There are also the when a senior workshop discretion was probably the fill up prior to the perceived Datuk Ismail employed A resident in Taman small lorry operators who are official suddenly appeared, better part of valour, and imposition of an oil price a no-nonsense approach in WHAT HAPPENED TO Tinggi, off Jalan Silibin, contracted to collect garbage accompanied by a uniformed began to comply. increase. running the city. He was a CARING? continued on page 11 security guard. The official The uniformed guard No announcement had “hands-on” leader who, by demanded to know who stood close beside as Rosli been made over the radio or setting an example, inspired In less than 15 years, Rosli was and what he was retrieved each of the 10 television. The motorists had City Council employees the enthusiasm that almost doing. photograph frames, hitting acted – as they had done so to work harder and more regained for Ipoh its the delete button as he did often in the past – on the mere efficiently. immaculate slate has waned. THE ASSIGNMENT so. suspicion that an increase was Those were years of Indeed it has vanished. Deletion completed as in the offing. unannounced inspections. The T-shirts with “We Our photographer instructed, the official then Decades of indoc- women zone People still remember how, Care” pronouncements have explained he had been as- ordered Rosli to leave the trination by a government adv once, the mayor stopped his disappeared. They could have signed to take photographs compound. fond of changing things at Beetle car after spotting a very well been replaced with The indomitable Ah Fook (right) saw no option but to raise kuai teow prices if the supply of the off-road dumpsters The front gate was still the stroke of midnight has dustbin left in the middle “Who cares?”in the light of of cooking oil reduced to a trickle. and to try and establish why wide open and there was still conditioned Malaysians to of the road by garbage the woeful “garbage non- so many of these vehicles no guard on the entrance as expect the worst for 2008. Malaysian Indian Restaurant could have a contingent council’s intention to stock- collectors. collection” faced by countless were laid up. our man drove away. Rumours of a 50 sen raise Owners’ Association, Datuk effect on the nation’s pile essential food items, He got out of the car, put disgruntled residents. The official then - de were rife. Ramalingam Pillai, was economy was averted with as announced on Thursday, the bin in its proper place, then You don’t have to drive And another . . . and . . . prompted to declare on some smart manoeuvrings by January 24, 2008, are no POLITICAL SUICIDE Monday, January 7, 2008, that Datuk Mohd Shafie Apdal, guarantee that problems re- LOW MAINTENANCE CLEANING gically placed and concealed ing, away from the AVIARY CENTRAL VACUUM SYSTEMS restaurants would cease to the Domestic and Consumer lating to shortages would be TOOL THAT GUARANTEES in the various rooms of the spaces being cleaned. SDN. BHD. Some said that the make roti canai if the shortage Affairs Minister. But he had resolved. A quick-fix solution CLEAN AIR IN THE HOME home/office. In addition, a The BEAM, there- increase was inevitable as of wheat flour continued into wrongly identified panic is not the answer. The coun- Think of this: after being used air discharged by portable central vacuum plant (CV fore, guarantees zero- Creating A Healthier Home For Your Loved Ones the government wanted to the second week. buying as the primary reason cil, in all honesty, is a poor several times, brooms become vacuums are toxic. plant) is installed outside the re-circulation of air – a Convenient to use for the shortage. PR exercise. Period. reduce fuel subsidies to breeding grounds for germs Christopher Richards, building. truly hygienic approach - no more portable vacuums or brooms recoup its losses. Others had HOUSEWIVES and dust mites. Old brooms Managing Director of Aviary This is how the BEAM that ensures prevention - light and easy storage the audacity to claim that it COMPLAIN THE SCAPEGOAT HUNT are actually dirty! Each time Central Vacuum Systems rec- works: you simply plug in of allergies and a safe Quiet was a prelude to the General YEAR-LONG MAIL DELIVERY OF you wield one, it sweeps dust ommends a BEAM Central the lightweight hose into environment especially - sleep in peace while you Election. Surely this would The shortage of cooking Shortages of essential THE IPOH ECHO and dirt from the floor - these Vacuum System by Electrolux. any of the inlets into any of for those with respira- clean your house. have been an act of political oil, on the other hand, elicited commodities are prevalent get airborne for at least six to It is, he says, the best tool for the inlets and the process of tory problems. Hygienic differing reactions from prior and during festive suicide given Malaysians’ You can have the Ipoh Echo mailed directly to your eight hours. That’s sufficient cleaning the home or the of- thorough cleaning up begins. BEAM is also a - all dangerous microscopic propensity to stutter at the different people. Housewives seasons. time for germs to settle on fice, making it a healthier Dust and dirt are gathered and quiet tool to use around particles and unpleasant slightest suggestion of a petrol complained that retailers It could be chicken, house or place of work. All you need to do is deposit food and furniture. environment to live. It is, he get filtered when they travel the house and it is defi- odours are exhausted out price hike. were hoarding the commodity onions, sugar, vegetables, RM24 with us and we will do the rest. The amount is If you think the portable pursues, the choice of caring through the ducting network nitely low-maintenance from your house. By about one in the in anticipation of a price beef or any of the 20-odd vacuum cleaner is better, think entrepreneurs who wish to to the power units (inlets). since it is fitted with an Powerful / Easy morning of New Year’s day increase. price-controlled items on the postage fee for the delivery of 24 copies of Ipoh Echo again. Each time you use it, add a definite improvement to Bigger particles are captured. exclusive self-cleaning Maintenance normalcy had returned. There Retailers blamed the government list. Meanwhile, billions of dust particles that their development plans. Micro particles and the smells filter and the durable wholesalers, wholesalers the hunt for a scapegoat con- for a year. Those interested please call our office at For enquiries/demonstration please call or visit our office : was no longer the tell-tale don’t get trapped by a filter Richards explains: that escape this filtering proc- dust bags need empty- No 26, Jalan Medan Ipoh 9, Bandar Baru Medan Ipoh, 31400 Ipoh. blamed the oil mills and oil tinues and the latest culprits queue at the petrol pumps. 05-2495936 (office) or 016-553 1092 for details. are blown out and expelled Automatic Vacuum Inlets and ess are discharged through the ing only once or twice Tel : 605-548 7253 or Michael : 013-481 6313 Car owners had come to their mills, in turn, blamed the identified are smugglers - big through the exhaust. Exhaust a ducting network are strate- CV plant, outside the build- a year. Your Community Newspaper IPOH ECHO February 01 - 15, 2008  ISLAND MEMORIES continued from page 1 www.ipohecho.com IPOH IPOH’S ‘TOP-SECRET’ echoYour Community Newspaper far to confirm the seriousness claims that the waste collection of the problem. There are in his neighbourhood used to GARBAGE TRUCKS From the Editor’s Desk By Fathol Zaman Bukhari rubbish dumps that are just be thrice weekly _ now they 100 metres apart from one are lucky if their rubbish bins another. There are illegal get collected once a week. THERE ARE – rubbish dumps even in Civic-conscious Ipohites GETTING BY commercial areas, just outside have taken steps managing SPOOKED the City Council Complex. domestic waste. Households Only 64 of the 122 are now keeping seafood and ALARMISTS 20,000 vehicles allotted for waste poultry in freezers until the disposal duties operate daily. dumpsters show up. “What By our own correspondent. I was looking forward to senses. The mad rush to fill government. and small - selling controlled OF THESE This would make for an else does one do?” asks a the fireworks display that up was an exercise in futility There was no end to goods for profits across the appallingly inefficient rating ratepayer. “If we leave bags When Ipoh Echo manded to know who had has become commonplace after all. the blame game. Hawkers Golok River in Thailand. DISGUSTING even within a normal waste in the bins, we have to live staff photographer, Rosli given Rosli permission to in major towns all over They would have been throughout Perak cut down on Smuggling is a way of collection scenario. For a with stench; they’d be filled DUMPS Mansor, attempted to dis- take his photographs. He Malaysia whenever the better off watching the food prepared for customers. life for these border dwellers rubbish-laden city like Ipoh, with maggots and think of all cover why almost 50% of was apparently unimpressed country ushers in a new fireworks than queue-jumping Ah Fook, the char keow as it is their livelihood. It it amounts to a disaster. the scavenging stray dogs and by Jerry Francis the city’s garbage dump- by the storekeeper’s ear- year. This New Year was no at the petrol pumps and going teow seller at Ipoh’s famous has been going on for ages. cats.” sters were non-function- lier reaction, the fact that the exception. bonkers over rumours and Holly Wood Restaurant Unless stern action is taken, Ipoh, once described as chased the erring dumpster CLEAR THE DUMPS Others think differently. ing, he encountered secu- gates of the compound were City Council had speculation that failed to contemplated raising the price smuggling activities will ‘the cleanest town’ in the and its crew. FIRST! They throw their plastic bags rity controls and authori- wide-open, that there was no organised a 5-day programme materialise. of his fried keow teow by an continue, come rain or shine. country, has become littered They got an earful! into rivers or just add them tarian attitude worthy of a guard on duty at the entrance to celebrate the end of 2007 additional 30 sen if his supply The problem is economic with illegal rubbish dumps. Datuk Ismail’s words: For some unexplained to uncollected heaps on their nuclear installation. and that there were certainly and the coming of 2008. All ANOTHER CRISIS of cooking oil was reduced to in nature. It has to do with The deterioration from “We want to stress to the reason we now hesitate way to work. It is an expedient Finding the gate to no warning signs suggesting activities were centred at the a trickle. supply and demand. “cleanest” to “rubbish people, particularly the MBI’s City Service Office the area was one covered by MBI Square and they had a But the excitement did The government deemed Demand for cooking strewn” is nothing less than council’s employees, that we and Workshop compound top-security precautions. profound effect on Ipohites, not end there. Before the first it fit to respond in kind and oil and flour escalates during a scandal. do care about their welfare. in Buntong wide open and He was equally unim- especially the young. week of January was over respond it did. festivities and this is nothing Current statistics are In this way, we hope to instill unguarded when he arrived, pressed with the photogra- Music and songs are a another crisis hit the country. strange. Profiteering is alarming. confidence in the employees Rosli drove in for a hundred pher’s very reasonable ob- guaranteed crowd puller and This time it was for real. FLOODING THE inherent in all businessmen. Consider this: there are so they may deliver dedicated yards or so and parked his servation that lines of non- the organisers were only too The nation was faced MARKET Who doesn’t want to earn now more than 20,000 illegal and efficient service to the car. Lines of broken down functioning garbage trucks happy to oblige. While the with a shortage of the more? Wholesalers and garbage dumps scattered all residents of the city. trucks were crammed into hardly constituted the sort of youngsters were drawn to domestic kind that would On Tuesday, January retailers are equally culpable. over the city – an average “What the City Council every available space around subject matter requiring spe- the stage and booths erected turn ugly if the problem was 8, 2008, it released 70,000 The government should of one dump to every 33 expects in return is cooperation a central workshop. cial permits to photograph. for the special occasion, allowed to fester. Cooking oil tonnes of cooking oil into the anticipate these developments residents! And the numbers from all residents,’ the Datuk With that the official another event was unfolding and wheat flour were in short market. The supply of wheat and react accordingly. It are mounting. added. ASSENT GIVEN ordered Rosli to hand over with much less fanfare than supply. flour was also increased to should adopt a proactive Particularly worrying is The then mayor right- his film immediately. anticipated. the fact that the City Council fully believed that team effort It reached such a critical satisfy demand. The flooding stance rather than a wait-and- Gathering his camera level that rationing was of the market with cooking see attitude. appears to be ineffectual was needed to keep Ipoh tick- And another . . . gear, the photographer ORDER: JOSTLING MOTORISTS – quite unable to cope with or ing. He saw that the Council considered an option by the oil and wheat flour helped The setting up of the approached what appeared contain the situation. had to lead with him at its talking about keeping the move, an unthinking one that DELETE THEM! authorities. overcome the problem. National Price Council and to be a male storekeeper I was about to make my President of the A major disaster that the hype surrounding the helm. city clean. We leave the fails to consider the hazardous immediately outside the Rosli explained he end-of-the-year drive around NO-NONSENSE Spurred by their hard- topic alone. Why tackle it effect the simple act does to workshop complex and was working with a modern the city to join the rest in the APPROACH working leader, councillors when there is the mammoth the health situation of the explained he had arrived to digital camera and there was merriment but got no further began thinking how they problem of clearing rubbish city. take pictures of the numerous no film. than the traffic junction The slide into heaps might encourage the dumps, a task which is now There are mattress off-road dumpsters. The “Then delete all leading to Jalan Tasek. of unmanaged mess seems community at large to regard proving beyond the capacity sellers who cry “Tilam lama, man nodded his assent and the photographs you The three petrol kiosks unstoppable. The closest Ipoh their Council as a body with of our Council? tukar baru” (old mattress for Rosli went to work. have taken,” ordered the near the junction were jam- came to regaining its 1960s a heart. Soon they adopted the Protect. Cover-up. Look new one!) and, after making Rosli had completed workshop official. packed with motorists jostling clean image was in 1993 when “We Care” motto. Employees the other way and hope it all a sale, chuck the old one taking approximately 10 The photographer felt, for space at the pumps. They Datuk Ismail Shah Bodin took wore T-shirts with “We Care” sorts itself out in the long run. into the next illegal dump individual photographs under the circumstances, had joined the mad rush to over as Datuk Bandar. emblazoned on them. The trouble is it won’t. they pass. There are also the when a senior workshop discretion was probably the fill up prior to the perceived Datuk Ismail employed A resident in Taman small lorry operators who are official suddenly appeared, better part of valour, and imposition of an oil price a no-nonsense approach in WHAT HAPPENED TO Tinggi, off Jalan Silibin, contracted to collect garbage accompanied by a uniformed began to comply. increase. running the city. He was a CARING? continued on page 11 security guard. The official The uniformed guard No announcement had “hands-on” leader who, by demanded to know who stood close beside as Rosli been made over the radio or setting an example, inspired In less than 15 years, Rosli was and what he was retrieved each of the 10 television. The motorists had City Council employees the enthusiasm that almost doing. photograph frames, hitting acted – as they had done so to work harder and more regained for Ipoh its the delete button as he did often in the past – on the mere efficiently. immaculate slate has waned. THE ASSIGNMENT so. suspicion that an increase was Those were years of Indeed it has vanished. Deletion completed as in the offing. unannounced inspections. The T-shirts with “We Our photographer instructed, the official then Decades of indoc- women zone People still remember how, Care” pronouncements have explained he had been as- ordered Rosli to leave the trination by a government adv once, the mayor stopped his disappeared. They could have signed to take photographs compound. fond of changing things at Beetle car after spotting a very well been replaced with The indomitable Ah Fook (right) saw no option but to raise kuai teow prices if the supply of the off-road dumpsters The front gate was still the stroke of midnight has dustbin left in the middle “Who cares?”in the light of of cooking oil reduced to a trickle. and to try and establish why wide open and there was still conditioned Malaysians to of the road by garbage the woeful “garbage non- so many of these vehicles no guard on the entrance as expect the worst for 2008. Malaysian Indian Restaurant could have a contingent council’s intention to stock- collectors. collection” faced by countless were laid up. our man drove away. Rumours of a 50 sen raise Owners’ Association, Datuk effect on the nation’s pile essential food items, He got out of the car, put disgruntled residents. The official then - de were rife. Ramalingam Pillai, was economy was averted with as announced on Thursday, the bin in its proper place, then You don’t have to drive And another . . . and . . . prompted to declare on some smart manoeuvrings by January 24, 2008, are no POLITICAL SUICIDE Monday, January 7, 2008, that Datuk Mohd Shafie Apdal, guarantee that problems re- LOW MAINTENANCE CLEANING gically placed and concealed ing, away from the AVIARY CENTRAL VACUUM SYSTEMS restaurants would cease to the Domestic and Consumer lating to shortages would be TOOL THAT GUARANTEES in the various rooms of the spaces being cleaned. SDN. BHD. Some said that the make roti canai if the shortage Affairs Minister. But he had resolved. A quick-fix solution CLEAN AIR IN THE HOME home/office. In addition, a The BEAM, there- increase was inevitable as of wheat flour continued into wrongly identified panic is not the answer. The coun- Think of this: after being used air discharged by portable central vacuum plant (CV fore, guarantees zero- Creating A Healthier Home For Your Loved Ones the government wanted to the second week. buying as the primary reason cil, in all honesty, is a poor several times, brooms become vacuums are toxic. plant) is installed outside the re-circulation of air – a Convenient to use for the shortage. PR exercise. Period. reduce fuel subsidies to breeding grounds for germs Christopher Richards, building. truly hygienic approach - no more portable vacuums or brooms recoup its losses. Others had HOUSEWIVES and dust mites. Old brooms Managing Director of Aviary This is how the BEAM that ensures prevention - light and easy storage the audacity to claim that it COMPLAIN THE SCAPEGOAT HUNT are actually dirty! Each time Central Vacuum Systems rec- works: you simply plug in of allergies and a safe Quiet was a prelude to the General YEAR-LONG MAIL DELIVERY OF you wield one, it sweeps dust ommends a BEAM Central the lightweight hose into environment especially - sleep in peace while you Election. Surely this would The shortage of cooking Shortages of essential THE IPOH ECHO and dirt from the floor - these Vacuum System by Electrolux. any of the inlets into any of for those with respira- clean your house. have been an act of political oil, on the other hand, elicited commodities are prevalent get airborne for at least six to It is, he says, the best tool for the inlets and the process of tory problems. Hygienic differing reactions from prior and during festive suicide given Malaysians’ You can have the Ipoh Echo mailed directly to your eight hours. That’s sufficient cleaning the home or the of- thorough cleaning up begins. BEAM is also a - all dangerous microscopic propensity to stutter at the different people. Housewives seasons. time for germs to settle on fice, making it a healthier Dust and dirt are gathered and quiet tool to use around particles and unpleasant slightest suggestion of a petrol complained that retailers It could be chicken, house or place of work. All you need to do is deposit food and furniture. environment to live. It is, he get filtered when they travel the house and it is defi- odours are exhausted out price hike. were hoarding the commodity onions, sugar, vegetables, RM24 with us and we will do the rest. The amount is If you think the portable pursues, the choice of caring through the ducting network nitely low-maintenance from your house. By about one in the in anticipation of a price beef or any of the 20-odd vacuum cleaner is better, think entrepreneurs who wish to to the power units (inlets). since it is fitted with an Powerful / Easy morning of New Year’s day increase. price-controlled items on the postage fee for the delivery of 24 copies of Ipoh Echo again. Each time you use it, add a definite improvement to Bigger particles are captured. exclusive self-cleaning Maintenance normalcy had returned. There Retailers blamed the government list. Meanwhile, billions of dust particles that their development plans. Micro particles and the smells filter and the durable wholesalers, wholesalers the hunt for a scapegoat con- for a year. Those interested please call our office at For enquiries/demonstration please call or visit our office : was no longer the tell-tale don’t get trapped by a filter Richards explains: that escape this filtering proc- dust bags need empty- No 26, Jalan Medan Ipoh 9, Bandar Baru Medan Ipoh, 31400 Ipoh. blamed the oil mills and oil tinues and the latest culprits queue at the petrol pumps. 05-2495936 (office) or 016-553 1092 for details. are blown out and expelled Automatic Vacuum Inlets and ess are discharged through the ing only once or twice Tel : 605-548 7253 or Michael : 013-481 6313 Car owners had come to their mills, in turn, blamed the identified are smugglers - big through the exhaust. Exhaust a ducting network are strate- CV plant, outside the build- a year.  IPOH ECHO February 01 - 15, 2008 Your Community Newspaper

, PUBLISHER By Siva Pragasam Your Concerns THUMBS UP LIVE Thinking Aloud Ipoh Echo Sdn Bhd Editorial performance by (Regd No 687483 T) WORKING TO DELIVER MyFM Jack Lim No 1 Jalan Lasam EXPERIENCE CERTAINLY HIGH QUALITY TREATMENT @ Sri Klebang 30450 Ipoh Perak Darul COMBATING CRIME FEAR OF FLASH FLOODS Ridzuan The Perak Society for the tion assistants, a counsellor Tel: (605) 249 5936 COUNTS A heavy down- Promotion of Mental Health and nurses. Some RM40,000 The popu- Fax: (605) 255 2181 pour now comes has launched its campaign is needed to maintain both lar MyFM EMail: ipohecho.ndr@ Crime is on the rise. If effective steps are not taken Twenty years ago, a lawyer court, by a majority deci- be insufficient for the proper with a scary to raise RM100,000 for a the centre and the residents 101.8FM gmail.com immediately to arrest the trend, in time it is bound to i n c o n v e n i e n c e d e e j a y , who visited a hospital as part sion, ruled that an academi- execution of a judge’s duties. multi-purpose hall in Ulu monthly. mutate into a culture. When that happens, addressing in certain sec- Jack Lim EDITORIAL of a group to donate blood cian could be appointed as Experience was also required Kinta, some eight kilome- Deputy Minister of the problem will be near impossible. ended up as the hospital’s pa- a judicial commissioner. At as a fundamental factor. tions of the city tres from the city centre. International Trade and Tak Wing Fathol Zaman Bukhari The increase in crime can partly be attributed to the tient for a couple of weeks. issue was the interpretation This thinking may have and a number of will be Nisha Devina Roy mass migration of a rural populace into the urban areas. Because of media atten- of Article 123 that provides arisen from the notion that built-up residen- perform- Such an influx in the last few decades has resulted in cities tion, a ranking doctor in the that a person is qualified for ‘judging’ is not only a science tial areas – flash ing live GRAPHIC DESIGN/ now accommodating fifty per cent of the nation’s people. hospital’s administration de- appointment as a judge if he but also an art and knowledge floods. Lanes of at Bandar PHOTOGRAPHY Malaysia has been more successful than most in cided personally to handle the or she has been an advocate needs to be complemented busy streets be- Baru Sri providing materialistic support to sustain this switch in come instant pools Rosli Mansor Ahmad lawyer’s donation procedure, for the ten years preceding his with a feel and instinct that K l e b a n g ’s C h i n e s e Razali demographics. But the emotional struggle of recent migrants a task normally performed appointment. only practical experience can and traffic snarls New Year Celebration coping with the stresses of unfamiliar urban social structures by a nurse. But having not The Chief Justice, who deliver. Significantly, it was caused by cars at the township’s new MARKETING & has been ignored. Some have found refuge in drugs and it is performed the procedure for was one of the dissenting Solomon’s wisdom, not his avoiding the pos- Show Village on Sunday, DISTRIBUTION estimated that 80 per cent of crime today is drug-related. A some time, the doctor’s ef- judges, interpreted “advo- knowledge that defined his sibility of stall- February 10th, from MANAGER vicious cycle of poverty, social disenfranchisement, drugs ing have added to 10am to 2pm. forts, in this instance, nearly cate” as someone who actu- greatness. Management of rubbish bags has to be improved. and crime emerges and sadly becomes self-sustaining. commuting woes. Jack Lim has starred Ramesh Kumar ended in tragedy. ally practices law as distinct It is, in fact, reminiscent of late 19th century Malaya from advocate in name only. COMPROMISE? Clogged drains are in many local television PERMISSION AND RE- when mass migration brought similar social problems save REAL FEARS Disregarding the issue suspected to be a major shows, and produced five PRINTS that opium was then the drug of choice. of interpretation, it may be There is, however, a way cause of flash floods. As our albums -two solo albums Today our country is searching for 5 year old Sharlinini. Fortunately, there was helpful to examine the ration- for possible compromise. photographs show, rubbish and three compilations. He Materials in Ipoh Echo may Barely three months have passed since we had to come no permanent damage though ale for the existence of the Perhaps the authority must not be allowed into Datuk Ahmad Husni flanked by K. Letchimanan and the is well known to his loyal not be reproduced to terms with the horror of 8 year-old Nurin Jazlin’s fate. there were real fears of such requirement. Rules exist to could look to allowing the drainage system - the PSPMH president Dato MJ Majumber at the launch listeners of the MyFM in any form without the One thousand bikers are the recent addition to the numbers Breakfast Show which airs written permission of the an eventuality. The incident serve a purpose in a defined academics to gain some trial grate must be reinforced involved in a nationwide hunt for little Sharlinini. There are currently 95 Industry Datuk Ahmad Husni publisher underlined very clearly the situation. Changes in circum- experience by enabling them with additional netting. on weekdays. He also hosts all-female residents being Hanhadezlah gave the fund- Women, Family and Community Development Minister, importance of on-the-job ex- stance may make some rules or even mandating that they Unfortunately, several of the the MyFM Chart Show. looked after by the Society. raising effort a kickstart by PRINTER Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, has called on communities perience. irrelevant or be a cause for participate actively in a couple outlets surveyed had no grate Just ensuring drains are maintained – meaning Jack will be perform- The hall, which will comple- pledging RM10,000 for the to work together to keep neighbourhoods safe, stressing the The doctor, arguably, change or for the introduction of cases a year. at all! rubbish-free - could make a significant difference. ing songs from his personal Konway Industries Sdn importance of a strong local community network. Malaysian was well qualified and had of new rules. It could be on behalf of ment the present Day Care centre. album. Many other activi- Bhd Crime Prevention Foundation Vice-Chairman, Tan Sri Lee the necessary knowledge to the private or public sector Centre, will provide these The PSPMH believes ties have been lined up for Plot 78, Lebuhraya Kam- Lam Thye, advocates the establishment of a ‘child watch’ inmates more space condu- that all people with mental the event such as a fire-eat- pong Jawa undertake the required blood EXPERIENCE or even by way of providing comprising government and non-government officials cive to training and working. disorders have the right 11900 Bayan Baru, Pulau extraction. He must have, REQUIRED legal aid to the needy. Such a ing show, the appearance COORDINATION IS THE KEY to receive high quality Pinang working closely with law enforcement agencies. Such a earlier in his career, become method may not only enable The women produce quality of the God of prosperity ceramic and handicraft items treatment and care delivered Tel: (604) 644 7507 grouping, it is argued, will ensure heightened scrutiny of very familiar with the neces- The question is whether lecturers to bring their real and lucky draws. all children’s safety and protection measures. Tan Sri Lee sary procedure and, indeed, changed conditions make it life experiences to the class- from the centre. through responsive health For more information, declares it is high time for the entire nation, comprising law employed the technique more desirable for a widening of room, making education more The administration care services. please contact 05-242 1333 Useful contacts enforcement agencies, voluntary organisations, parents and than once. the rule. relevant, but students could chairman, K. Letchimanan, The Society’s president, or 012-500 8018. the public at large, work with one mind to address the issue But lack of experience This particular rule was be brought into the exercise said that helping inmates Dato MJ. Majumder has Perak Main Police Staion of child safety. made all that count for noth- obviously created on the ba- giving them an insight into gain self-esteem through appealed to the public for 05-254 1222 While no one would dispute the wisdom of this their work, a sense of donations. Official tax- 999 (emergency) ing. sis that knowledge alone – as the demands of their future proposal, it must be realised that crimes against children Recently, the Federal a functioning quality – may career. independence and a degree of exempt receipts, she assured, Ipoh Main Police Station are but one facet in a much broader issue of ‘crime’. The satisfaction out of their daily will be issued to donors. 05-253 2222 whole spectrum of crime must be addressed to achieve any output, is what the PSPMH is For more details, please Ipoh General Hospital kind of meaningful success. Lam Thye’s suggestion needs FEEDBACK: all about. contact 05-5332167 or 05- 05-253 3333 to be extended to include all crimes – or at least all violent The Day Care Centre is 5335457. run by a manager, rehabilita- Ipoh Ambulance crimes. Letter to The Editor Waiting for the event to start. Some also waited for the toilets to open . . . Arresting the trend of crime growth may require -PK 05-522 2506 Participants at a recent sleeping soundly on a mat the employment of a two-pronged strategy – one which 993 (emergency) A GARBAGE SYSTEM THAT CAN WORK walk/jog outing of civil outside the locked doors. It addresses the symptoms with short term plans and the other servants began gathering must have been the watchman Ipoh Fire Brigade that identifies and eradicates the causes through a long term - EVEN HERE! Restoration Of 05-547 4444 at the Dataran as early as but, even awake, would he strategy. The first would rely on defensive tactics and the Old Furniture 994 (emergency) To The Editor, Ipoh Echo 6.30am. have assisted? He would have latter would need proactive measures. To the chagrin – and stuck to the guidelines that Tenaga Nasional Berhad However, the effectiveness of both is dependent discomfort – of those who come with his employment. Art 15454 on the realisation that the problem cannot be resolved by Oblivious to the fuss Antiques & Sir; needed it, the toilet remained And one of these appear to be Wood Lembaga Air Perak law enforcement agencies acting in isolation. It needs the Collectibles Add : No. 11, Lorong Cecil locked until 8 am. that his “active duty” starts at Wouldn’t it serve public Carvings Rae, Canning Garden, 1800-88-7788 cooperation and active participation of civil society. It I read with great inter- from the green and black Those who wanted to 8 o’clock! interest to have the operator 31400 Ipoh, Perak. Directory Service must be remembered that while the communist terrorists est your “Garbage Galore” Souvenirs & Picture bins is once a week. Garden use the lavatory was greeted It is understood that this coordinate and cooperate with h/p: 016-550 7155 103 were defeated in Malaya, other communists were still able story in the Ipoh Echo dated Gifts Frames waste is removed once a by the presence of a man facility has been privatised. organisers of future events? tel: 05-546 3326 to defeat the mighty US in Vietnam. The difference was January 1-15, 2008. This Rakan Cop fortnight. The garbage truck that security forces in Malaya had the support of the local made me think deeply about 05-240 1999 does the tipping into its back community; the US did not. The US ignored the community the garbage problem which Perak Women for portion and only a driver and and interacted primarily with the elite. Britain, on the other faces not only Ipoh, but the Women Society two labourers do the job. hand, and later independent Malaya, actively engaged the WHOLE country! 012-521 2480 Now this system can local populace in their effort. I am fully aware of Our January 1-15 012-505 0547 work here if it is strictly en- Crime is a social problem and has its roots in culture councillors of the Ipoh City edition photograph forced. Instructions in the and values of society. There needs to be consensus, Council being sent overseas rivers and canals. four major languages of this ownership and sharing of the terms of behaviour that on so-called “study” tours Local and City Councils country with illustrations and www.ipohecho.com.myAdvertise in members of society have agreed to live by. It is a social where they were to have issue three wheeled bins warnings of strict enforce- contract that all individuals have a duty to deliver as well learnt the various aspects of IPOH of different colours to each ment can and will work. Your Community Newspaper as a right to demand compliance. There cannot be selective echo running their cities. Sad to and every household there. enforcement. Effort will soon lose credibility and there will Recycling can be fully say, they have “learnt” little The picture in your article be little meaningful progress. achieved then. In addition, Classifieds or nothing. well illustrates the size and The IPOH ECHO’s primary intent is to contribute, in this would be cost-saving. I have travelled over- structure. The three colours Appointments whatever way possible, to enhance the quality of life of the The money saved can be- seas to the United Kingdom – black for kitchen waste, citizens of Perak. As a community newspaper, helping in spent on Ipoh’s roads and (my base) and Europe on 7 brown for plastics and paper efforts to create a safer and more secure environment, is one drainage systems which are Call: occasions and have always as well as other recyclable of our primary missions. We offer our columns as a platform in a deplorable state. kept my eyes open. I have material like cloth, and green Ramesh Kumar for civil society and law enforcement agencies to cooperate a suggestion to make after for garden waste which is re- in this vital task of crime prevention and eradication. But to Sincerely, observing garbage collec- cycled into fertiliser. Marketing Manager achieve this ambition the ECHO must be trusted and adopted tion in the United Kingdom By law, garbage is re- wholeheartedly by public and private sectors alike. It must Ajit Singh Jessy Tel : (605) 2495936 in my travels there, my curi- quired to be enclosed in plas- be seen as a vehicle belonging to all to be used for bettering Ipoh Garden South, osity raised by the clean and tic bags, aside from garden Fax : (605) 2552181 society. We certainly pledge our part in this endeavour. Ipoh. hygienic conditions there in waste which goes direct into Mobile : 016 5531092 the cities and waterways, i.e. the bin. Normal collection Your Community Newspaper IPOH ECHO February 01 - 15, 2008 

, PUBLISHER By Siva Pragasam Your Concerns THUMBS UP LIVE Thinking Aloud Ipoh Echo Sdn Bhd Editorial performance by (Regd No 687483 T) WORKING TO DELIVER MyFM Jack Lim No 1 Jalan Lasam EXPERIENCE CERTAINLY HIGH QUALITY TREATMENT @ Sri Klebang 30450 Ipoh Perak Darul COMBATING CRIME FEAR OF FLASH FLOODS Ridzuan The Perak Society for the tion assistants, a counsellor Tel: (605) 249 5936 COUNTS A heavy down- Promotion of Mental Health and nurses. Some RM40,000 The popu- Fax: (605) 255 2181 pour now comes has launched its campaign is needed to maintain both lar MyFM EMail: ipohecho.ndr@ Crime is on the rise. If effective steps are not taken Twenty years ago, a lawyer court, by a majority deci- be insufficient for the proper with a scary to raise RM100,000 for a the centre and the residents 101.8FM gmail.com immediately to arrest the trend, in time it is bound to i n c o n v e n i e n c e d e e j a y , who visited a hospital as part sion, ruled that an academi- execution of a judge’s duties. multi-purpose hall in Ulu monthly. mutate into a culture. When that happens, addressing in certain sec- Jack Lim EDITORIAL of a group to donate blood cian could be appointed as Experience was also required Kinta, some eight kilome- Deputy Minister of the problem will be near impossible. ended up as the hospital’s pa- a judicial commissioner. At as a fundamental factor. tions of the city tres from the city centre. International Trade and Tak Wing Fathol Zaman Bukhari The increase in crime can partly be attributed to the tient for a couple of weeks. issue was the interpretation This thinking may have and a number of will be Nisha Devina Roy mass migration of a rural populace into the urban areas. Because of media atten- of Article 123 that provides arisen from the notion that built-up residen- perform- Such an influx in the last few decades has resulted in cities tion, a ranking doctor in the that a person is qualified for ‘judging’ is not only a science tial areas – flash ing live GRAPHIC DESIGN/ now accommodating fifty per cent of the nation’s people. hospital’s administration de- appointment as a judge if he but also an art and knowledge floods. Lanes of at Bandar PHOTOGRAPHY Malaysia has been more successful than most in cided personally to handle the or she has been an advocate needs to be complemented busy streets be- Baru Sri providing materialistic support to sustain this switch in come instant pools Rosli Mansor Ahmad lawyer’s donation procedure, for the ten years preceding his with a feel and instinct that K l e b a n g ’s C h i n e s e Razali demographics. But the emotional struggle of recent migrants a task normally performed appointment. only practical experience can and traffic snarls New Year Celebration coping with the stresses of unfamiliar urban social structures by a nurse. But having not The Chief Justice, who deliver. Significantly, it was caused by cars at the township’s new MARKETING & has been ignored. Some have found refuge in drugs and it is performed the procedure for was one of the dissenting Solomon’s wisdom, not his avoiding the pos- Show Village on Sunday, DISTRIBUTION estimated that 80 per cent of crime today is drug-related. A some time, the doctor’s ef- judges, interpreted “advo- knowledge that defined his sibility of stall- February 10th, from MANAGER vicious cycle of poverty, social disenfranchisement, drugs ing have added to 10am to 2pm. forts, in this instance, nearly cate” as someone who actu- greatness. Management of rubbish bags has to be improved. and crime emerges and sadly becomes self-sustaining. commuting woes. Jack Lim has starred Ramesh Kumar ended in tragedy. ally practices law as distinct It is, in fact, reminiscent of late 19th century Malaya from advocate in name only. COMPROMISE? Clogged drains are in many local television PERMISSION AND RE- when mass migration brought similar social problems save REAL FEARS Disregarding the issue suspected to be a major shows, and produced five PRINTS that opium was then the drug of choice. of interpretation, it may be There is, however, a way cause of flash floods. As our albums -two solo albums Today our country is searching for 5 year old Sharlinini. Fortunately, there was helpful to examine the ration- for possible compromise. photographs show, rubbish and three compilations. He Materials in Ipoh Echo may Barely three months have passed since we had to come no permanent damage though ale for the existence of the Perhaps the authority must not be allowed into Datuk Ahmad Husni flanked by K. Letchimanan and the is well known to his loyal not be reproduced to terms with the horror of 8 year-old Nurin Jazlin’s fate. there were real fears of such requirement. Rules exist to could look to allowing the drainage system - the PSPMH president Dato MJ Majumber at the launch listeners of the MyFM in any form without the One thousand bikers are the recent addition to the numbers Breakfast Show which airs written permission of the an eventuality. The incident serve a purpose in a defined academics to gain some trial grate must be reinforced involved in a nationwide hunt for little Sharlinini. There are currently 95 Industry Datuk Ahmad Husni publisher underlined very clearly the situation. Changes in circum- experience by enabling them with additional netting. on weekdays. He also hosts all-female residents being Hanhadezlah gave the fund- Women, Family and Community Development Minister, importance of on-the-job ex- stance may make some rules or even mandating that they Unfortunately, several of the the MyFM Chart Show. looked after by the Society. raising effort a kickstart by PRINTER Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, has called on communities perience. irrelevant or be a cause for participate actively in a couple outlets surveyed had no grate Just ensuring drains are maintained – meaning Jack will be perform- The hall, which will comple- pledging RM10,000 for the to work together to keep neighbourhoods safe, stressing the The doctor, arguably, change or for the introduction of cases a year. at all! rubbish-free - could make a significant difference. ing songs from his personal Konway Industries Sdn importance of a strong local community network. Malaysian was well qualified and had of new rules. It could be on behalf of ment the present Day Care centre. album. Many other activi- Bhd Crime Prevention Foundation Vice-Chairman, Tan Sri Lee the necessary knowledge to the private or public sector Centre, will provide these The PSPMH believes ties have been lined up for Plot 78, Lebuhraya Kam- Lam Thye, advocates the establishment of a ‘child watch’ inmates more space condu- that all people with mental the event such as a fire-eat- pong Jawa undertake the required blood EXPERIENCE or even by way of providing comprising government and non-government officials cive to training and working. disorders have the right 11900 Bayan Baru, Pulau extraction. He must have, REQUIRED legal aid to the needy. Such a ing show, the appearance COORDINATION IS THE KEY to receive high quality Pinang working closely with law enforcement agencies. Such a earlier in his career, become method may not only enable The women produce quality of the God of prosperity ceramic and handicraft items treatment and care delivered Tel: (604) 644 7507 grouping, it is argued, will ensure heightened scrutiny of very familiar with the neces- The question is whether lecturers to bring their real and lucky draws. all children’s safety and protection measures. Tan Sri Lee sary procedure and, indeed, changed conditions make it life experiences to the class- from the centre. through responsive health For more information, declares it is high time for the entire nation, comprising law employed the technique more desirable for a widening of room, making education more The administration care services. please contact 05-242 1333 Useful contacts enforcement agencies, voluntary organisations, parents and than once. the rule. relevant, but students could chairman, K. Letchimanan, The Society’s president, or 012-500 8018. the public at large, work with one mind to address the issue But lack of experience This particular rule was be brought into the exercise said that helping inmates Dato MJ. Majumder has Perak Main Police Staion of child safety. made all that count for noth- obviously created on the ba- giving them an insight into gain self-esteem through appealed to the public for 05-254 1222 While no one would dispute the wisdom of this their work, a sense of donations. Official tax- 999 (emergency) ing. sis that knowledge alone – as the demands of their future proposal, it must be realised that crimes against children Recently, the Federal a functioning quality – may career. independence and a degree of exempt receipts, she assured, Ipoh Main Police Station are but one facet in a much broader issue of ‘crime’. The satisfaction out of their daily will be issued to donors. 05-253 2222 whole spectrum of crime must be addressed to achieve any output, is what the PSPMH is For more details, please Ipoh General Hospital kind of meaningful success. Lam Thye’s suggestion needs FEEDBACK: all about. contact 05-5332167 or 05- 05-253 3333 to be extended to include all crimes – or at least all violent The Day Care Centre is 5335457. run by a manager, rehabilita- Ipoh Ambulance crimes. Letter to The Editor Waiting for the event to start. Some also waited for the toilets to open . . . Arresting the trend of crime growth may require -PK 05-522 2506 Participants at a recent sleeping soundly on a mat the employment of a two-pronged strategy – one which 993 (emergency) A GARBAGE SYSTEM THAT CAN WORK walk/jog outing of civil outside the locked doors. It addresses the symptoms with short term plans and the other servants began gathering must have been the watchman Ipoh Fire Brigade that identifies and eradicates the causes through a long term - EVEN HERE! Restoration Of 05-547 4444 at the Dataran as early as but, even awake, would he strategy. The first would rely on defensive tactics and the Old Furniture 994 (emergency) To The Editor, Ipoh Echo 6.30am. have assisted? He would have latter would need proactive measures. To the chagrin – and stuck to the guidelines that Tenaga Nasional Berhad However, the effectiveness of both is dependent discomfort – of those who come with his employment. Art 15454 on the realisation that the problem cannot be resolved by Oblivious to the fuss Antiques & Sir; needed it, the toilet remained And one of these appear to be Wood Lembaga Air Perak law enforcement agencies acting in isolation. It needs the Collectibles Add : No. 11, Lorong Cecil locked until 8 am. that his “active duty” starts at Wouldn’t it serve public Carvings Rae, Canning Garden, 1800-88-7788 cooperation and active participation of civil society. It I read with great inter- from the green and black Those who wanted to 8 o’clock! interest to have the operator 31400 Ipoh, Perak. Directory Service must be remembered that while the communist terrorists est your “Garbage Galore” Souvenirs & Picture bins is once a week. Garden use the lavatory was greeted It is understood that this coordinate and cooperate with h/p: 016-550 7155 103 were defeated in Malaya, other communists were still able story in the Ipoh Echo dated Gifts Frames waste is removed once a by the presence of a man facility has been privatised. organisers of future events? tel: 05-546 3326 to defeat the mighty US in Vietnam. The difference was January 1-15, 2008. This Rakan Cop fortnight. The garbage truck that security forces in Malaya had the support of the local made me think deeply about 05-240 1999 does the tipping into its back community; the US did not. The US ignored the community the garbage problem which Perak Women for portion and only a driver and and interacted primarily with the elite. Britain, on the other faces not only Ipoh, but the Women Society two labourers do the job. hand, and later independent Malaya, actively engaged the WHOLE country! 012-521 2480 Now this system can local populace in their effort. I am fully aware of Our January 1-15 012-505 0547 work here if it is strictly en- Crime is a social problem and has its roots in culture councillors of the Ipoh City edition photograph forced. Instructions in the and values of society. There needs to be consensus, Council being sent overseas rivers and canals. four major languages of this ownership and sharing of the terms of behaviour that on so-called “study” tours Local and City Councils country with illustrations and www.ipohecho.com.myAdvertise in members of society have agreed to live by. It is a social where they were to have issue three wheeled bins warnings of strict enforce- contract that all individuals have a duty to deliver as well learnt the various aspects of IPOH of different colours to each ment can and will work. Your Community Newspaper as a right to demand compliance. There cannot be selective echo running their cities. Sad to and every household there. enforcement. Effort will soon lose credibility and there will Recycling can be fully say, they have “learnt” little The picture in your article be little meaningful progress. achieved then. In addition, Classifieds or nothing. well illustrates the size and The IPOH ECHO’s primary intent is to contribute, in this would be cost-saving. I have travelled over- structure. The three colours Appointments whatever way possible, to enhance the quality of life of the The money saved can be- seas to the United Kingdom – black for kitchen waste, citizens of Perak. As a community newspaper, helping in spent on Ipoh’s roads and (my base) and Europe on 7 brown for plastics and paper efforts to create a safer and more secure environment, is one drainage systems which are Call: occasions and have always as well as other recyclable of our primary missions. We offer our columns as a platform in a deplorable state. kept my eyes open. I have material like cloth, and green Ramesh Kumar for civil society and law enforcement agencies to cooperate a suggestion to make after for garden waste which is re- in this vital task of crime prevention and eradication. But to Sincerely, observing garbage collec- cycled into fertiliser. Marketing Manager achieve this ambition the ECHO must be trusted and adopted tion in the United Kingdom By law, garbage is re- wholeheartedly by public and private sectors alike. It must Ajit Singh Jessy Tel : (605) 2495936 in my travels there, my curi- quired to be enclosed in plas- be seen as a vehicle belonging to all to be used for bettering Ipoh Garden South, osity raised by the clean and tic bags, aside from garden Fax : (605) 2552181 society. We certainly pledge our part in this endeavour. Ipoh. hygienic conditions there in waste which goes direct into Mobile : 016 5531092 the cities and waterways, i.e. the bin. Normal collection  IPOH ECHO February 01 - 15, 2008 Your Community Newspaper

Saturday, be considerably restricted and with its strong aspirations for with four tables, tea rooms, by Ho Tak Ming st severe checks placed on the local autonomy. reading and writing rooms, Ipoh Facts and Fancies 1 February, granting of import and export and special rooms for ladies. 1908 permits. Dealers should * * * * * Every bedroom throughout THE WAY be brought under stricter will have its own bathroom Editorial control and their operations The following details and dressing room attached. The Aeroplane Comes To Ipoh more closely scrutinised. An concerning the new Sarkies A feature of the new www.thesuterashop.com A mere twenty-five years expansive wave of the hand. round about the daring aerial Club House could well have enhancement of the licence Hotel at Ipoh are given hotel will be the Miners’ and The F.M.S. public has so long after the “Iron Horse” was On the appointed day a the air. Finally, he gave a feats taking place. Inside the accommodated six times the fees on firearms might be through the Times of Malaya: Planters’ lounge, with its been accustomed to read or built in Perak, when Ipoh crowd of thousands gathered wonderful demonstration of enclosure, on the other hand, number present. And it was advantageously carried out. The building will own entrance at the corner of IT WAS. . . hear of gang robbers being boasted only a tiny collection at the racecourse, with 150 or FIGURES OF EIGHT the feat of descending. The there was a mere handful of Band night, as well! Finally, we would occupy three sides of a Hospital Road and Port House almost invariably armed with of attap huts on the banks of so Europeans occupying the plane flew at a sharp angle paying spectators. add that a general search square, fronting Station Road with bathrooms and revolvers and guns that no a fast-flowing shallow river, first and second class seats on Mr Kuller did not downwards as if about to A TOUGH LESSON of quarters where illicit Road, Hospital Road and dressing rooms adjoining. The surprise is felt or manifested at the aeroplane – soared over the lawn in front of the Golf disappoint. With the greatest crash land. Then, 50 feet from A DIFFERENT SCENE firearms are suspected to be Court House Road; the main kitchen, store-room, electric reports of outrages perpetrated the town. Club. A substantially larger of ease, he flew over and the ground the pilot switched Financially speaking, concealed, will be productive entrance being at the junction light plant, motor garage etc. with the aid of firearms. On July 1, 1911, G.P. concourse of Asians, each around the racecourse several off the engine. Gracefully, the Attendances – that is the organisers received a of beneficial, though startling, of the two former. The will be at the back close to the Efforts, and often suc- Kuller, the Flying Dutchman having paid a 20c entrance times, then proceeded to make machine glided to earth. comprising those who paid hammering. They learned a results. Station Road frontage will Chinese protectorate. cessful ones, are frequently – one of the earliest aviators fee, were cramped together figures of eight in the sky to – grew less by the day. tough lesson. Technological be partly three storeys high, 100 YEARS made to run down the robbers and a confrere of the Wright in the “native enclosure” to the “oohs” and “aahs” of the PREDICTABLE On the fourth and final advances dramatically change * * * * * five large shops occupying Steam Launch for Sale and bring them to justice. But brothers – came to town for a witness the first aerial flight in appreciative crowd. exhibition, the outside crowd perspectives. An aerial the ground floor, above these in addition to these measures, four-day series of exhibition Ipoh. Each time he passed over It was altogether a was immense, every “non- exhibition could be seen for AGO THIS the powers that be will do Local and General News being offices and chambers New and just arrived flights on his “Antionette” As it happened, an even the heads of the spectators wonderful performance, but paying” vantage spot being miles around. The aeroplane for professional men, and from builders, Yarrow & well to take precautions for monoplane. A syndicate of larger crowd of thousands assembled at the Golf Club, the second day saw, perhaps, a eagerly sought and occupied. had come to Ipoh and people, Gang robbers in Kinta, above them again bedrooms Co. Ltd., Poplar, London preventing, or at least mini- sporting Chinese underwrote assembled on the Tambun he was greeted with cheers. predictable development. The Inside the racecourse, very quickly, had become that FORTNIGHT when in considerable belonging to the hotel proper. is a first class shallow draft mising, the possibility of a re- his show for the then most Road to get a free view of the Kuller acknowledged the crowd outside the racecourse again, was a very different much wiser. numbers, do not even hesitate The remainder of the steam launch, specially currence of these outrages. substantial sum of $3,500. monoplane while it circled in appreciative response with an grew larger as word got scene. Grand Stand and It is well known that to tackle police patrols. On building will be two storeys constructed and very the night of Wednesday last, the gang robbers succeed in high while in the centre suitable for river work in WORTH EVERY CENT a police patrol consisting of a carrying on their depredations will be two lawns separated the East. corporal and a private while not so much on the strength of by a cross-building. The 53 feet 4 inches long, But, by all accounts, the going along the road from public dining room will seat 7 feet 6 inches beam, draft SOMEONE I NEVER MET. . . by James Wong Wing On their numbers, as by the terror show was worth every cent of Ipoh to Tekka met a party inspired by their firearms, comfortably about 150 people about 15 inches. the outlay and certainly pro- of six Chinese whom they BUT TO WHOM I OWE SO MUCH which they have not been at separate tables, while a Has good cabin and vided Ipohites of the day an challenged. slow to use in the event of smaller dining room will be sleeping accommodation for idea of what the wonderful On Qingming – the tra- tionally ethnic attention at through a huge German-made The reply took the sud- resistance. available for private dinner 4 passengers, Cooking Stove, winged machine was really ditional Chinese tomb- the graveside of a Eurasian radio set on the premises. den and wholly unexpected Deprive the gang parties. Store Room, and Bathroom, like. Perhaps, even more to sweeping days – my father, Christian. As a matter of fact, our shape of a revolver shot fired Perak Pioneer robber of his revolver, Verandahs will run Boiler specially constructed the point, it suggested what when I was a child in the I should explain that our Clare Street shop was within by one of the gang which and he becomes a com- all round the building both for burning firewood. the future might hold. early 1970s, always took visits to St Michael’s always five minute-walking distance wounded the private on the paratively innocuous thief. back and front. There will Speed about 8 knots. Could they be looking at me to Ipoh’s St. Michael’s took place in the afternoons. from the Kathigasu clinic shoulder. The police promptly Notwithstanding the stringent be an immense drawing For particulars, price and the beginnings of a huge avia- Church cemetery. There, By then, our extended family at No 141, Brewster Road. returned the fire, whereupon provisions of the Arms Act in room suitable for dances order to view, apply Barlow tion industry based on man’s in a gesture of symbolical had already swept the tombs Although both the coffeeshop the gang decamped with great respect to import and export or concerts, a billiard room & Co., Singapore. new-found ability to take to reverence, we would tidy of direct ancestors laid to and clinic are no more, the expeditiousness. permits, and issue as well the skies? up the tomb of Mrs. Sybil rest in Chinese graveyards. original buildings that housed as transfer of licences, it is A large advertisement Kathigasu. Our duty done, Among these were the burial them still stand. The young nurse, a remarkable circumstance had been duly placed in the we would bow three times plots of my great grandpar- When I grew older, in Sybil Kathigasu. * * * * * that robbers are never Ipoh newspaper: before departing.. ents in Guangdong Public the late 1970s, the tradition of lost conciousness. It was Sybil found lacking in arms and I was present because, Cemetery beside the Tambun my father bringing his eldest Kathigasu who came to their It will be good news ammunition. IPOH AVIATION MEETING for the Chinese – especially Inn. Me and my now departed Dad. son to pay respects at Sybil home to administer effective to the litigant public, who It is left for the Police To be held at the Racecourse, those with extended families Reflecting on those days, father and grandmother, as Kathigasu’s graveside con- treatment. It saved his life. have been far from satisfied department to elucidate this IPOH – the eldest son is supposed I feel saddened that so much well as many elderly neigh- tinued. But now another story Listening to all that, I fi- with the present divided seeming mystery, but it is BY KIND PERMISSION OF to be a human depository of of the strength and meaning bours along Clare Street, used was told to me. nally realised why my father arrangement of the local of bygone graceousness and Perak Pioneer an undoubted fact that more IPOH GYMKHANA CLUB family history. to regale me with stories of A few days before the brought me every year with- Magistrate’s Court, to learn vigilance is exercised in AND IPOH GOLF CLUB mutual respect have become Sybil Kathigasu’s bravery and Japanese Imperial Army out fail in the 1970s to sweep that Mr Peck, Land Officer, preventing the smuggling of On the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th July A CURIOUS SIGHT lost in our frantic rush for sacrifice during the Japanese occupied Ipoh on Boxing the English-language tomb will take full charge of the the smallest modicum of illicit 1911 at 5.15pm techno-manic world survival. occupation. Day, 1941, my grandparents of a Eurasian woman during same after the Chinese New Established in chandu or contraband liquor, Mr. G.P. KULLER, For the casual onlooker My late grandmother, for and their children escaped to Qingming. Year holidays. than in checking the import of Engineering Aviator, it must have been a some- STORIES OF BRAVERY example, often recalled how Papan and there they later met It was, of course, a ges- firearms. They consequently WILL GIVE HIS what curious sight to see two the Cantonese-speaking Mrs. Mrs. Kathigasu and her family ture of heartfelt gratitude on * * * * * increase and multiply in WONDERFUL EXHIBITION Chinese paying such tradi- All those years ago my Kathigasu and her husband again as fellow war evacuees his part to Sybil Kathigasu, not The utter apathy and in- 1894 numbers far exceeding those ON HIS ANTIONETTE Dr. A.C. Kathigasu, prior to from Ipoh. only as a resistance heroine, difference of the Singaporeans for which licences are issued MONOPLANE the outbreak of World War 11, but also a true family friend. in matters municipal have by the Police department. PRICES OF ADMISSION would drop by our coffeeshop SYBIL SAVES A LIFE She saved my father’s life for been strikingly illustrated by Even, if the evilly disposed Daily Ticket Season – Thu Chu at No 24, Clare which I and my siblings will the recent abortive election ‘The oldest and classes of the population 1st Class $4.00 1st Street. They enjoyed the es- According to grand- be eternally grateful. that was held to fill a vacancy contrive to effect surreptitious Class $12.00 tablishment’s home-made mother, my father was then Not surprisingly, I still among the Commissions. Dr purchase of firearms from their 2nd Class $2.00 2nd Wuyi herbal tea and would physically a very sickly boy visit St Michael’s graveyard Fowler, who would have been innocent owners, the question Class $6.00 sit there quietly sipping from and often suffered from high every now and then. There I a most desirable accession to most widely yet awaits consideration 3rd Class 50 c cups as they listened to Anglo- fever. pay quiet homage to a woman Nurina’s Cooking School the Civic Board was nomi- as to how the supplies of 4th Class 20 c American music and news One midnight in Papan, I never met but to whom I ammunition are replenished. nated as the sole candidate. Sybil Kathigasu’s gravestone at St Michael’s, Ipoh. programmes that crackled my father became so ill he owe my very existence. There is evidently a But he received only 13 votes circulated serious leakage somewhere; while the requisite minimum and the stoppage of this inlet was 20. is bound to have a great It is strange to find that influence for good in the state the whole of a populous ward newspaper in the of crime in this country. did not furnish a score of men A material amendment who troubled themselves to to the Arms Act appears to record their votes. be imperatively called for. We may here add that F.M.S’ The issue of licences for such a fiasco would have been possession of firearms should impossible in pushful Penang, Your Community Newspaper IPOH ECHO February 01 - 15, 2008 

Saturday, be considerably restricted and with its strong aspirations for with four tables, tea rooms, by Ho Tak Ming st severe checks placed on the local autonomy. reading and writing rooms, Ipoh Facts and Fancies 1 February, granting of import and export and special rooms for ladies. 1908 permits. Dealers should * * * * * Every bedroom throughout THE WAY be brought under stricter will have its own bathroom Editorial control and their operations The following details and dressing room attached. The Aeroplane Comes To Ipoh more closely scrutinised. An concerning the new Sarkies A feature of the new www.thesuterashop.com A mere twenty-five years expansive wave of the hand. round about the daring aerial Club House could well have enhancement of the licence Hotel at Ipoh are given hotel will be the Miners’ and The F.M.S. public has so long after the “Iron Horse” was On the appointed day a the air. Finally, he gave a feats taking place. Inside the accommodated six times the fees on firearms might be through the Times of Malaya: Planters’ lounge, with its been accustomed to read or built in Perak, when Ipoh crowd of thousands gathered wonderful demonstration of enclosure, on the other hand, number present. And it was advantageously carried out. The building will own entrance at the corner of IT WAS. . . hear of gang robbers being boasted only a tiny collection at the racecourse, with 150 or FIGURES OF EIGHT the feat of descending. The there was a mere handful of Band night, as well! Finally, we would occupy three sides of a Hospital Road and Port House almost invariably armed with of attap huts on the banks of so Europeans occupying the plane flew at a sharp angle paying spectators. add that a general search square, fronting Station Road with bathrooms and revolvers and guns that no a fast-flowing shallow river, first and second class seats on Mr Kuller did not downwards as if about to A TOUGH LESSON of quarters where illicit Road, Hospital Road and dressing rooms adjoining. The surprise is felt or manifested at the aeroplane – soared over the lawn in front of the Golf disappoint. With the greatest crash land. Then, 50 feet from A DIFFERENT SCENE firearms are suspected to be Court House Road; the main kitchen, store-room, electric reports of outrages perpetrated the town. Club. A substantially larger of ease, he flew over and the ground the pilot switched Financially speaking, concealed, will be productive entrance being at the junction light plant, motor garage etc. with the aid of firearms. On July 1, 1911, G.P. concourse of Asians, each around the racecourse several off the engine. Gracefully, the Attendances – that is the organisers received a of beneficial, though startling, of the two former. The will be at the back close to the Efforts, and often suc- Kuller, the Flying Dutchman having paid a 20c entrance times, then proceeded to make machine glided to earth. comprising those who paid hammering. They learned a results. Station Road frontage will Chinese protectorate. cessful ones, are frequently – one of the earliest aviators fee, were cramped together figures of eight in the sky to – grew less by the day. tough lesson. Technological be partly three storeys high, 100 YEARS made to run down the robbers and a confrere of the Wright in the “native enclosure” to the “oohs” and “aahs” of the PREDICTABLE On the fourth and final advances dramatically change * * * * * five large shops occupying Steam Launch for Sale and bring them to justice. But brothers – came to town for a witness the first aerial flight in appreciative crowd. exhibition, the outside crowd perspectives. An aerial the ground floor, above these in addition to these measures, four-day series of exhibition Ipoh. Each time he passed over It was altogether a was immense, every “non- exhibition could be seen for AGO THIS the powers that be will do Local and General News being offices and chambers New and just arrived flights on his “Antionette” As it happened, an even the heads of the spectators wonderful performance, but paying” vantage spot being miles around. The aeroplane for professional men, and from builders, Yarrow & well to take precautions for monoplane. A syndicate of larger crowd of thousands assembled at the Golf Club, the second day saw, perhaps, a eagerly sought and occupied. had come to Ipoh and people, Gang robbers in Kinta, above them again bedrooms Co. Ltd., Poplar, London preventing, or at least mini- sporting Chinese underwrote assembled on the Tambun he was greeted with cheers. predictable development. The Inside the racecourse, very quickly, had become that FORTNIGHT when in considerable belonging to the hotel proper. is a first class shallow draft mising, the possibility of a re- his show for the then most Road to get a free view of the Kuller acknowledged the crowd outside the racecourse again, was a very different much wiser. numbers, do not even hesitate The remainder of the steam launch, specially currence of these outrages. substantial sum of $3,500. monoplane while it circled in appreciative response with an grew larger as word got scene. Grand Stand and It is well known that to tackle police patrols. On building will be two storeys constructed and very the night of Wednesday last, the gang robbers succeed in high while in the centre suitable for river work in WORTH EVERY CENT a police patrol consisting of a carrying on their depredations will be two lawns separated the East. corporal and a private while not so much on the strength of by a cross-building. The 53 feet 4 inches long, But, by all accounts, the going along the road from public dining room will seat 7 feet 6 inches beam, draft SOMEONE I NEVER MET. . . by James Wong Wing On their numbers, as by the terror show was worth every cent of Ipoh to Tekka met a party inspired by their firearms, comfortably about 150 people about 15 inches. the outlay and certainly pro- of six Chinese whom they BUT TO WHOM I OWE SO MUCH which they have not been at separate tables, while a Has good cabin and vided Ipohites of the day an challenged. slow to use in the event of smaller dining room will be sleeping accommodation for idea of what the wonderful On Qingming – the tra- tionally ethnic attention at through a huge German-made The reply took the sud- resistance. available for private dinner 4 passengers, Cooking Stove, winged machine was really ditional Chinese tomb- the graveside of a Eurasian radio set on the premises. den and wholly unexpected Deprive the gang parties. Store Room, and Bathroom, like. Perhaps, even more to sweeping days – my father, Christian. As a matter of fact, our shape of a revolver shot fired Perak Pioneer robber of his revolver, Verandahs will run Boiler specially constructed the point, it suggested what when I was a child in the I should explain that our Clare Street shop was within by one of the gang which and he becomes a com- all round the building both for burning firewood. the future might hold. early 1970s, always took visits to St Michael’s always five minute-walking distance wounded the private on the paratively innocuous thief. back and front. There will Speed about 8 knots. Could they be looking at me to Ipoh’s St. Michael’s took place in the afternoons. from the Kathigasu clinic shoulder. The police promptly Notwithstanding the stringent be an immense drawing For particulars, price and the beginnings of a huge avia- Church cemetery. There, By then, our extended family at No 141, Brewster Road. returned the fire, whereupon provisions of the Arms Act in room suitable for dances order to view, apply Barlow tion industry based on man’s in a gesture of symbolical had already swept the tombs Although both the coffeeshop the gang decamped with great respect to import and export or concerts, a billiard room & Co., Singapore. new-found ability to take to reverence, we would tidy of direct ancestors laid to and clinic are no more, the expeditiousness. permits, and issue as well the skies? up the tomb of Mrs. Sybil rest in Chinese graveyards. original buildings that housed as transfer of licences, it is A large advertisement Kathigasu. Our duty done, Among these were the burial them still stand. The young nurse, a remarkable circumstance had been duly placed in the we would bow three times plots of my great grandpar- When I grew older, in Sybil Kathigasu. * * * * * that robbers are never Ipoh newspaper: before departing.. ents in Guangdong Public the late 1970s, the tradition of lost conciousness. It was Sybil found lacking in arms and I was present because, Cemetery beside the Tambun my father bringing his eldest Kathigasu who came to their It will be good news ammunition. IPOH AVIATION MEETING for the Chinese – especially Inn. Me and my now departed Dad. son to pay respects at Sybil home to administer effective to the litigant public, who It is left for the Police To be held at the Racecourse, those with extended families Reflecting on those days, father and grandmother, as Kathigasu’s graveside con- treatment. It saved his life. have been far from satisfied department to elucidate this IPOH – the eldest son is supposed I feel saddened that so much well as many elderly neigh- tinued. But now another story Listening to all that, I fi- with the present divided seeming mystery, but it is BY KIND PERMISSION OF to be a human depository of of the strength and meaning bours along Clare Street, used was told to me. nally realised why my father arrangement of the local of bygone graceousness and Perak Pioneer an undoubted fact that more IPOH GYMKHANA CLUB family history. to regale me with stories of A few days before the brought me every year with- Magistrate’s Court, to learn vigilance is exercised in AND IPOH GOLF CLUB mutual respect have become Sybil Kathigasu’s bravery and Japanese Imperial Army out fail in the 1970s to sweep that Mr Peck, Land Officer, preventing the smuggling of On the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th July A CURIOUS SIGHT lost in our frantic rush for sacrifice during the Japanese occupied Ipoh on Boxing the English-language tomb will take full charge of the the smallest modicum of illicit 1911 at 5.15pm techno-manic world survival. occupation. Day, 1941, my grandparents of a Eurasian woman during same after the Chinese New Established in chandu or contraband liquor, Mr. G.P. KULLER, For the casual onlooker My late grandmother, for and their children escaped to Qingming. Year holidays. than in checking the import of Engineering Aviator, it must have been a some- STORIES OF BRAVERY example, often recalled how Papan and there they later met It was, of course, a ges- firearms. They consequently WILL GIVE HIS what curious sight to see two the Cantonese-speaking Mrs. Mrs. Kathigasu and her family ture of heartfelt gratitude on * * * * * increase and multiply in WONDERFUL EXHIBITION Chinese paying such tradi- All those years ago my Kathigasu and her husband again as fellow war evacuees his part to Sybil Kathigasu, not The utter apathy and in- 1894 numbers far exceeding those ON HIS ANTIONETTE Dr. A.C. Kathigasu, prior to from Ipoh. only as a resistance heroine, difference of the Singaporeans for which licences are issued MONOPLANE the outbreak of World War 11, but also a true family friend. in matters municipal have by the Police department. PRICES OF ADMISSION would drop by our coffeeshop SYBIL SAVES A LIFE She saved my father’s life for been strikingly illustrated by Even, if the evilly disposed Daily Ticket Season – Thu Chu at No 24, Clare which I and my siblings will the recent abortive election ‘The oldest and classes of the population 1st Class $4.00 1st Street. They enjoyed the es- According to grand- be eternally grateful. that was held to fill a vacancy contrive to effect surreptitious Class $12.00 tablishment’s home-made mother, my father was then Not surprisingly, I still among the Commissions. Dr purchase of firearms from their 2nd Class $2.00 2nd Wuyi herbal tea and would physically a very sickly boy visit St Michael’s graveyard Fowler, who would have been innocent owners, the question Class $6.00 sit there quietly sipping from and often suffered from high every now and then. There I a most desirable accession to most widely yet awaits consideration 3rd Class 50 c cups as they listened to Anglo- fever. pay quiet homage to a woman Nurina’s Cooking School the Civic Board was nomi- as to how the supplies of 4th Class 20 c American music and news One midnight in Papan, I never met but to whom I ammunition are replenished. nated as the sole candidate. Sybil Kathigasu’s gravestone at St Michael’s, Ipoh. programmes that crackled my father became so ill he owe my very existence. There is evidently a But he received only 13 votes circulated serious leakage somewhere; while the requisite minimum and the stoppage of this inlet was 20. is bound to have a great It is strange to find that influence for good in the state the whole of a populous ward newspaper in the of crime in this country. did not furnish a score of men A material amendment who troubled themselves to to the Arms Act appears to record their votes. be imperatively called for. We may here add that F.M.S’ The issue of licences for such a fiasco would have been possession of firearms should impossible in pushful Penang,  IPOH ECHO February 01 - 15, 2008 Your Community Newspaper

Musings by See Foon Chan-Koppen PERAK AT A GLANCE THE CHICKEN HAS ITS RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE UGLY TRUTH ABOUT Spotlighting happenings in our state BEAUTY last month – January, 2008 A REUNION DINNER SPREAD Ipoh, January 1: Police swoop on a batch of Mat Rempit Samantha only wanted to be moment that long-lost taut smoother-skinned or less New Year revellers rampaging their motorcycles down Jalan The pak chum kai is as important as the seafood offerings skinny and beautiful. jawline, and your loved one or paunchy competitor? Brash, a main city thoroughfare. Forty-three motorcyclists Usually sensible parents a friend reassures you that it’s When that occurs you and 23 pillion riders are seized. are succumbing to daughters’ It has long flowing tails and okay to grow old gracefully. succumb to the dreaded A total of 167 summonses covering 260 offences are “Cock-a-cock-tock! Cock-a- New Year ( February 8 this ‘chicken doctor’ who migrated day of the lunar year. easy to follow and fool-proof. pleas for nose jobs, liposuc- shiny hackles and saddle That’s all well and good media hype and go out to handed out to the 66 people intercepted in the raid. One of those cock-tock-tock…!” year), mainly in the state of to Malaysia from China. tion, and other cosmetic pro- (glossy pointed feathers on until your loved one runs off compete with your younger involved, a 26 year-old man, is reported to have tested positive Perak, where the population is The success rate is almost ‘PAK CHUM KAI’ METHOD 1 cedures. All at an increasingly with a 25-year-old or your sisters. You may or may for illegal drugs.The police action follows numerous complaints “Hey, why are all these fowls predominated by Cantonese. 90 per cent. Currently he has its neck). It has a magnificent younger age. fleshy crest, usually blood See Foon friend makes remarks about not have a face lift, go on a by residents that nighttime conditions in the residential area making so much noise?” Their life style adheres 150 capons on his property Mr Wong’s prized Have a big wok (about -red in colour, and hanging someone else being “long in Scarsdale, Fit-for-Life, liquid, around the town’s Polo Ground have deteriorated to a point queried a geomancer. “This closely to that of Hong Kong and orders are placed, by chickens will end up 18 to 20 inches in diameter) REALITIES flaps of skin from either side The media’s obsession with the tooth”. grapefruit or whichever new where they are now posing serious threats to the safety and well is the Year of the Earth residents. the most part, by regular on dinner tables ready. Half-fill it with water; of its cheeks. Its glare is tall, slim and stunning diet is in vogue. Sartorially, being of law-abiding locals. Rat,” he argued. Customs die hard. Most customers. He refers to them on February bring it to a rapid boil. Place It is amazing how much aggressively awesome. women is perpetuating a DRASTIC MEASURES you mistakenly assume that The brood of chickens of them still observe the as ‘chicken connoisseurs’ and 8. This a rack over the water and confusion exists today about plethora of plastic values shorter and tighter is better, Teluk Intan, January 11. Forty-seven year old padi farmer, crowed in unison: “It may ancestral worship and the they become very particular rest the metal plate with the the difference between a role At the age of nine, Jennifer So you go on a diet and and end up looking like Wong Kok Ching, is charged in the Teluk Intan magistrate’s be the year of the rat or any main offering is still the big, about their preferences when THE PULLET cleaned chicken on it. Cover model and a super-model. has decided what she wants to consider a face-lift. And even mutton dressed as lamb. court with the murder of a 13 year-old girl. other zodiac animal from year fat chicken, served whole to it comes to Chinese New Year the wok. Leave for 45 minutes In my young days, I always be when she grows up - a thin as the thought crosses your It is alleged the farmer attacked the girl, Lim Wan Qing, to year but the supremacy their altars and deities (not feasting. Mingling with capon to steam a five-kilo capon understood a role model to be and beautiful weather girl on mind, you castigate yourself WHO’S TO BLAME? with a parang after running amok.The court orders Wong be or our reign is definite. We Buddha and the Goddess of Capons can easily cost and the cockerel is the pullet tenderly. If the weight is six placed under medical observation for a month. The case is next are not scratching into the Mercy - they are vegetarians!). up to RM180/ per bird, which shies away from the kilos, switch off the fire after So who or what is to due for mention on February 11. astrological field. We are Majority of village inhabitants depending on its weight - slightest distraction. This 45 minutes but let the chicken blame for this state of affairs? roosting in our domain and or our kampung dwellers are RM30/= per kilo weight. One female chicken which has rest in the covered wok. The The most obvious one is the Batu Gajah, January 11: There are mounting indications that is, in the kitchen.” Taoists. Praying with meat can weigh up to 5-6 kilos at not lain an egg is preferred writer thinks they are best residual steam will slowly media--that whole plethora of that the Batu Gajah constituency will witness a battle of the They have a point there. and fowl is still dogmatically maturity – at six months old. by the younger generation served Cantonese-style - pak finish the job. communication vehicles out fairer sex in the coming General elections. Can anyone imagine any practised. Browse through Left to live to a great age of whose knowledge of tender chum kai which literally During the whole there in this global village of The MCA has been urged to find a female candidate to seasonal festival without any the markets and observe one year, the capon’s skin gets meat is limited to the translates into “white chopped process of steaming, try not to ours. contest this seat currently held by the DAP incumbent Fong Po bird, especially on a spring the chatter of the villagers to be resilient and its meat so processed variety sold in the chicken”. The chicken is open the cover unnecessarily; How can you cope with Kuan. festival (Chinese New Year)? - in Pasir Pinji, Pasir Puteh, tough. supermarkets. plain-steamed or boiled and otherwise the build-up this continual bombardment Perak Barisan Nasional chairman, Datuk Seri Mohd Tajol This is an occasion where a Bercham, Menglembu. The One wishes young chopped into bite pieces and steam will escape. Check from the media? Everywhere Rosli Ghazali tells journalists: “Perhaps by fielding a female Chinese table is overspread chicken stalls are crowded. THE COCKEREL homemakers would avail served with different dips or periodically to see if the there are subliminal mes- candidate, we can woo the fence sitters and secure victor for with epicurean delights All sorts of interesting fowl- themselves of farm-raised sauces. water in the wok remains at a sages about what it takes to BN.” The 1999 General Elections saw Fong’s initial arrival on of exotic ingredients and related remarks are made and In the Chinese observance chicken. The flesh of a free- How do you steam or quarter full. To test whether be a woman in the 21st cen- the Federal political field following her surprise victory then in painstaking preparation with noted. Many demand, “Where of rituals, the cockerel (a male range chicken is tender yet boil a chicken so that you the bird is safely cooked or tury. From TV ads spouting Batu Gajah. In the 2004 pools she spectacularly defeated Perak symbolic names. For example, do I get a capon?” chicken of six months) can firm, and tasty; its skin is don’t see blood when it is not, just prick the thickest imbecilic messages uttered MCA chairman, Datuk Ong Ka Chuan, with a 7,927-vote victory the fish isyue - it rhymes with certainly crow its importance. smooth and springy. It is chopped? These ghastly part of the thigh. If the juice by beautiful bimbos, to mu- margin. abundance in Chinese, so its THE CAPON On the second day of the reared for 90 days before it disasters have been narrated is pinkish, do not panic, the sic videos featuring sado- presence, especially the white lunar year, most Cantonese is ready for the table. Sold to me by younger family remaining steam in the wok masochistic rituals enacted Taiping, January 12: Latest statistics from Taiping’s pomfret, is supposed to bring The capon is a sexless and Kheks follow their for RM18. per kilo, it can members and friends who are will complete the job. by vampish sirens, the pre- Municipal Council show that revenue collections for 2007 good fortune and great wealth rooster favoured by the older ancestral custom of “opening easily fetch a price of around professional retirees. Some This method has been dominant gestalt is one of “if increased 11% over that achieved during 2006. to the household. generation for its tender, juicy the year”. This means they RM50/= for a full-fledged are very good cooks in their used by two seasoned you ain’t got it in the looks Council President, Omor Saad, reveals revenue funds Another aquatic dish is and tasty meat, if properly start their business with the bird weighing 2-3 kilos. own way but a chick manages housewives who boast at department - real tall, slim received in 2007 total RM29.2 million. This amounts to 96% the prawn - har in Cantonese reared. Its life sacrifice of a rooster and This pricing also goes for the and stunning-you ain’t gonna of the revenue target originally set by the council. The president tones suggest trills of laughter span should other meaningful offerings. cockerel which yields tender make it’. draws particular attention to the municipality’s performance which should infuse the The ritual, accompanied by meat at 90 days. with its Urban Poverty Eradication Programme over the same family with feelings of joy prayers takes place in the SUBSTITUTE 12-month period. and liveliness throughout the early hours of the morning. DIFFERENT DIET TV. The fact that her mother an adult person of the same for being so callow about ‘MENTORS’ House rentals amounting to RM102, 636 have been made year. Another auspicious and Firecrackers following this has just come off a two-month gender whom I admired and something so trivial as lost available to 80 poor families during 2007, he says. In addition, seldom missed item is the ceremony can sometimes All fowls roaming in Mr. liquid diet and is looking wanted to emulate. youthfulness. Needless to say, today’s poor families have received relief for school, college and dried oyster - ho see - which shatter the morning peace. Wong Thong’s farm are fed positively anorexic may be Nowadays, that distinc- You entertain the delicious message of “making it” for university fees, school bus fares, factory bus fares and child sounds like “all things good”, T h e on dried corns, rice grains, sheer coincidence. tion is blurred, and all the reverie that perhaps men lay women, means having a good minders’ fees. heralding favourable tidings not exceed six months from cockerel can be dried beehoon and ikan Indrani, age 10, still has young and not-so-young la- down their razors and tug at job or a good man. in the future. chick to dining table. Special differentiated from bilis bits. The fresh air and her heart set on being a doctor dies want to be like the long their sideburns in the privacy As traditional values and Jelapang, January 14: Thick as bricks . . . but highly care is administered to this o t h e r surrounding greenery have (her mother is one), but she lanky clothes horses who of their bathrooms while family units disintegrate at an dangerous just the same. WHAT ABOUT THE “eunuch” chicken, when it rooks contributed to their optimal may specialise in dietetics. grace the covers of fashion debating whether a more increasing rate - a phenomenon Three criminal louts leap from a car at a Taman Meru police CHICKEN THEN? is neutered at age 85 days. health. Who can doubt the And she wants to look like magazines or the glamour youthful face would land them that is rapidly seeping into the roadblock and disappear into roadside undergrowth. Police give It is closely watched. In this natural quality of the flesh super-model, Imam. queens of Hollywood. a better job or girlfriend. fabric of Asian society--we chase but the fugitives run in separate directions, making good What, then, is the status case, the “nurse” - Mr.Wong from this special breed. He My daughter Camille, It does not help when But you knew the answers are witnessing the decay of all their escapes. of chickens on the reunion Thong, who manages and revealed that most Hokkiens when she was 11, planned you surreptitiously tug at your all along. When did a man and Teochews have ordered that is pure and virtuous. In Still, if the trio is thinking of pursuing lives of crime, dinner menu? There are jointly owns a poultry farm, to trick them! least 20 to 30 years each of to be a skinny and beautiful crêpey neck in the bathroom ever worry about losing their livestock and reserved its stead, the mass media with perhaps they should really think again. Is it a good idea, for three sexes here - the capon, has a hard time keeping stock by Friends who are avid full-time cooking for their astronomer, and her friend mirror, bringing back for a a woman to a younger, them for their Hokkien New its soap operas and scandals instance, to leave calling cards at crime scenes? the cockerel and the pullet of his precious brood. i t s cooks and I have tried and respective families. In the Year which falls on February have assumed the role of Because that is exactly what they hand over to police – (also pellet). Each of them Mr Wong confides that tested methods of steaming or case of a pullet or cockerel, 14 this year, the eve of the educator. their individual ID cards – before staging the getaway. And what plays an important role in the the chick’s castration is done striking boiling chicken over the years. celebration of the Chinese p l u m a g e . Jade Emperor’s birthday - 9th should police uncover in the abandoned vehicle? Nothing less by a professional and certified Personally, I find two ways continued on page 11 ABYSMAL than a US-manufactured 9 mm Norinco pistol, a magazine with seven bullets and a collection of false number plates. 2 teaspoons lemon into thin strips. Combine and thickens. Remove What an abysmal future 20 minutes, basting Within hours police have issued an all-points bulletin juice rind, orange juice, sugar, from heat. we are setting up for our frequently with sauce until identifying three men aged 20, 21 and 34 years whom they are 2 cups water vinegar, lemon juice, children. It’s not only the seeking “to assist in investigations”. 1 chicken stock cube water and crumbled stock Stir in Grand Marnier. duck is tender and well environmentalists who have By now, even that threesome might have realised they are 3 teaspoons arrowroot cube in saucepan. glazed. a concern about our future in a considerable amount of trouble and that it is only a matter 1 tablespoon water, extra Drain pan juices from legacy. Any questions about this of time. ½ cup Grand Marnier Stir over heat until baking dish. Pour sauce We should also think recipe please feel free Conversion Table mixture boils, boil rapidly over duck, return to JOB VACANCY IPOH to call Nurina at Kafe about the psychological well- Fair Dinkum uncovered, without oven, bake for a further being of human interaction. ECHO Paprika 012 373 5020 Services Kafe Paprika’s METHOD stirring, until Marketing Assistant If we are to preserve the mixture is integrity of the human spirit, Candidate must be proficient “WE HELP YOU Duck a l’Orange Tie duck’s legs together. reduced by then the youth cult and plastic in written and spoken FIND” Place duck into baking half. values must be sacrificed to English. Orange Sauce can be made Introductions & Matchmaking dish. brush duck with allow for a return to respect Experience in graphic design up to a day ahead if desired. Call : butter. Bake in moderate Stir blended of wisdom. After all, super- is an advantage. This recipe is not suitable oven for about 1 hour. arrowroot and models aren’t the best role Please submit all CV’s to the 605-548 1890 to freeze or microwave. ORANGE SAUCE extra water models. Ipoh Echo at jobs@ipohecho. 016-565 6293 Serves: 4 Brush occasionally with gradually into com.my Peti Surat 596,Taman Ipoh,31407 Feedback should be juices during cooking. sauce. Stir For further information, call Ipoh, Perak,Malaysia. INGREDIENTS 1 orange sent to: ½ cup orange juice c o n s t a n t l y Ramesh at 016-5531092 or E-mail : editorial@ipohecho. 1 tablespoon sugar Remove rind from orange. over heat until 05-2495936 [email protected] 1 duck com.my 30g butter, melted 1 tablespoon white vinegar Remove white pith; cut rind sauce boils Your Community Newspaper IPOH ECHO February 01 - 15, 2008 

Musings by See Foon Chan-Koppen PERAK AT A GLANCE THE CHICKEN HAS ITS RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE UGLY TRUTH ABOUT Spotlighting happenings in our state BEAUTY last month – January, 2008 A REUNION DINNER SPREAD Ipoh, January 1: Police swoop on a batch of Mat Rempit Samantha only wanted to be moment that long-lost taut smoother-skinned or less New Year revellers rampaging their motorcycles down Jalan The pak chum kai is as important as the seafood offerings skinny and beautiful. jawline, and your loved one or paunchy competitor? Brash, a main city thoroughfare. Forty-three motorcyclists Usually sensible parents a friend reassures you that it’s When that occurs you and 23 pillion riders are seized. are succumbing to daughters’ It has long flowing tails and okay to grow old gracefully. succumb to the dreaded A total of 167 summonses covering 260 offences are “Cock-a-cock-tock! Cock-a- New Year ( February 8 this ‘chicken doctor’ who migrated day of the lunar year. easy to follow and fool-proof. pleas for nose jobs, liposuc- shiny hackles and saddle That’s all well and good media hype and go out to handed out to the 66 people intercepted in the raid. One of those cock-tock-tock…!” year), mainly in the state of to Malaysia from China. tion, and other cosmetic pro- (glossy pointed feathers on until your loved one runs off compete with your younger involved, a 26 year-old man, is reported to have tested positive Perak, where the population is The success rate is almost ‘PAK CHUM KAI’ METHOD 1 cedures. All at an increasingly with a 25-year-old or your sisters. You may or may for illegal drugs.The police action follows numerous complaints “Hey, why are all these fowls predominated by Cantonese. 90 per cent. Currently he has its neck). It has a magnificent younger age. fleshy crest, usually blood See Foon friend makes remarks about not have a face lift, go on a by residents that nighttime conditions in the residential area making so much noise?” Their life style adheres 150 capons on his property Mr Wong’s prized Have a big wok (about -red in colour, and hanging someone else being “long in Scarsdale, Fit-for-Life, liquid, around the town’s Polo Ground have deteriorated to a point queried a geomancer. “This closely to that of Hong Kong and orders are placed, by chickens will end up 18 to 20 inches in diameter) REALITIES flaps of skin from either side The media’s obsession with the tooth”. grapefruit or whichever new where they are now posing serious threats to the safety and well is the Year of the Earth residents. the most part, by regular on dinner tables ready. Half-fill it with water; of its cheeks. Its glare is tall, slim and stunning diet is in vogue. Sartorially, being of law-abiding locals. Rat,” he argued. Customs die hard. Most customers. He refers to them on February bring it to a rapid boil. Place It is amazing how much aggressively awesome. women is perpetuating a DRASTIC MEASURES you mistakenly assume that The brood of chickens of them still observe the as ‘chicken connoisseurs’ and 8. This a rack over the water and confusion exists today about plethora of plastic values shorter and tighter is better, Teluk Intan, January 11. Forty-seven year old padi farmer, crowed in unison: “It may ancestral worship and the they become very particular rest the metal plate with the the difference between a role At the age of nine, Jennifer So you go on a diet and and end up looking like Wong Kok Ching, is charged in the Teluk Intan magistrate’s be the year of the rat or any main offering is still the big, about their preferences when THE PULLET cleaned chicken on it. Cover model and a super-model. has decided what she wants to consider a face-lift. And even mutton dressed as lamb. court with the murder of a 13 year-old girl. other zodiac animal from year fat chicken, served whole to it comes to Chinese New Year the wok. Leave for 45 minutes In my young days, I always be when she grows up - a thin as the thought crosses your It is alleged the farmer attacked the girl, Lim Wan Qing, to year but the supremacy their altars and deities (not feasting. Mingling with capon to steam a five-kilo capon understood a role model to be and beautiful weather girl on mind, you castigate yourself WHO’S TO BLAME? with a parang after running amok.The court orders Wong be or our reign is definite. We Buddha and the Goddess of Capons can easily cost and the cockerel is the pullet tenderly. If the weight is six placed under medical observation for a month. The case is next are not scratching into the Mercy - they are vegetarians!). up to RM180/ per bird, which shies away from the kilos, switch off the fire after So who or what is to due for mention on February 11. astrological field. We are Majority of village inhabitants depending on its weight - slightest distraction. This 45 minutes but let the chicken blame for this state of affairs? roosting in our domain and or our kampung dwellers are RM30/= per kilo weight. One female chicken which has rest in the covered wok. The The most obvious one is the Batu Gajah, January 11: There are mounting indications that is, in the kitchen.” Taoists. Praying with meat can weigh up to 5-6 kilos at not lain an egg is preferred writer thinks they are best residual steam will slowly media--that whole plethora of that the Batu Gajah constituency will witness a battle of the They have a point there. and fowl is still dogmatically maturity – at six months old. by the younger generation served Cantonese-style - pak finish the job. communication vehicles out fairer sex in the coming General elections. Can anyone imagine any practised. Browse through Left to live to a great age of whose knowledge of tender chum kai which literally During the whole there in this global village of The MCA has been urged to find a female candidate to seasonal festival without any the markets and observe one year, the capon’s skin gets meat is limited to the translates into “white chopped process of steaming, try not to ours. contest this seat currently held by the DAP incumbent Fong Po bird, especially on a spring the chatter of the villagers to be resilient and its meat so processed variety sold in the chicken”. The chicken is open the cover unnecessarily; How can you cope with Kuan. festival (Chinese New Year)? - in Pasir Pinji, Pasir Puteh, tough. supermarkets. plain-steamed or boiled and otherwise the build-up this continual bombardment Perak Barisan Nasional chairman, Datuk Seri Mohd Tajol This is an occasion where a Bercham, Menglembu. The One wishes young chopped into bite pieces and steam will escape. Check from the media? Everywhere Rosli Ghazali tells journalists: “Perhaps by fielding a female Chinese table is overspread chicken stalls are crowded. THE COCKEREL homemakers would avail served with different dips or periodically to see if the there are subliminal mes- candidate, we can woo the fence sitters and secure victor for with epicurean delights All sorts of interesting fowl- themselves of farm-raised sauces. water in the wok remains at a sages about what it takes to BN.” The 1999 General Elections saw Fong’s initial arrival on of exotic ingredients and related remarks are made and In the Chinese observance chicken. The flesh of a free- How do you steam or quarter full. To test whether be a woman in the 21st cen- the Federal political field following her surprise victory then in painstaking preparation with noted. Many demand, “Where of rituals, the cockerel (a male range chicken is tender yet boil a chicken so that you the bird is safely cooked or tury. From TV ads spouting Batu Gajah. In the 2004 pools she spectacularly defeated Perak symbolic names. For example, do I get a capon?” chicken of six months) can firm, and tasty; its skin is don’t see blood when it is not, just prick the thickest imbecilic messages uttered MCA chairman, Datuk Ong Ka Chuan, with a 7,927-vote victory the fish isyue - it rhymes with certainly crow its importance. smooth and springy. It is chopped? These ghastly part of the thigh. If the juice by beautiful bimbos, to mu- margin. abundance in Chinese, so its THE CAPON On the second day of the reared for 90 days before it disasters have been narrated is pinkish, do not panic, the sic videos featuring sado- presence, especially the white lunar year, most Cantonese is ready for the table. Sold to me by younger family remaining steam in the wok masochistic rituals enacted Taiping, January 12: Latest statistics from Taiping’s pomfret, is supposed to bring The capon is a sexless and Kheks follow their for RM18. per kilo, it can members and friends who are will complete the job. by vampish sirens, the pre- Municipal Council show that revenue collections for 2007 good fortune and great wealth rooster favoured by the older ancestral custom of “opening easily fetch a price of around professional retirees. Some This method has been dominant gestalt is one of “if increased 11% over that achieved during 2006. to the household. generation for its tender, juicy the year”. This means they RM50/= for a full-fledged are very good cooks in their used by two seasoned you ain’t got it in the looks Council President, Omor Saad, reveals revenue funds Another aquatic dish is and tasty meat, if properly start their business with the bird weighing 2-3 kilos. own way but a chick manages housewives who boast at department - real tall, slim received in 2007 total RM29.2 million. This amounts to 96% the prawn - har in Cantonese reared. Its life sacrifice of a rooster and This pricing also goes for the and stunning-you ain’t gonna of the revenue target originally set by the council. The president tones suggest trills of laughter span should other meaningful offerings. cockerel which yields tender make it’. draws particular attention to the municipality’s performance which should infuse the The ritual, accompanied by meat at 90 days. with its Urban Poverty Eradication Programme over the same family with feelings of joy prayers takes place in the SUBSTITUTE 12-month period. and liveliness throughout the early hours of the morning. DIFFERENT DIET TV. The fact that her mother an adult person of the same for being so callow about ‘MENTORS’ House rentals amounting to RM102, 636 have been made year. Another auspicious and Firecrackers following this has just come off a two-month gender whom I admired and something so trivial as lost available to 80 poor families during 2007, he says. In addition, seldom missed item is the ceremony can sometimes All fowls roaming in Mr. liquid diet and is looking wanted to emulate. youthfulness. Needless to say, today’s poor families have received relief for school, college and dried oyster - ho see - which shatter the morning peace. Wong Thong’s farm are fed positively anorexic may be Nowadays, that distinc- You entertain the delicious message of “making it” for university fees, school bus fares, factory bus fares and child sounds like “all things good”, T h e on dried corns, rice grains, sheer coincidence. tion is blurred, and all the reverie that perhaps men lay women, means having a good minders’ fees. heralding favourable tidings not exceed six months from cockerel can be dried beehoon and ikan Indrani, age 10, still has young and not-so-young la- down their razors and tug at job or a good man. in the future. chick to dining table. Special differentiated from bilis bits. The fresh air and her heart set on being a doctor dies want to be like the long their sideburns in the privacy As traditional values and Jelapang, January 14: Thick as bricks . . . but highly care is administered to this o t h e r surrounding greenery have (her mother is one), but she lanky clothes horses who of their bathrooms while family units disintegrate at an dangerous just the same. WHAT ABOUT THE “eunuch” chicken, when it rooks contributed to their optimal may specialise in dietetics. grace the covers of fashion debating whether a more increasing rate - a phenomenon Three criminal louts leap from a car at a Taman Meru police CHICKEN THEN? is neutered at age 85 days. health. Who can doubt the And she wants to look like magazines or the glamour youthful face would land them that is rapidly seeping into the roadblock and disappear into roadside undergrowth. Police give It is closely watched. In this natural quality of the flesh super-model, Imam. queens of Hollywood. a better job or girlfriend. fabric of Asian society--we chase but the fugitives run in separate directions, making good What, then, is the status case, the “nurse” - Mr.Wong from this special breed. He My daughter Camille, It does not help when But you knew the answers are witnessing the decay of all their escapes. of chickens on the reunion Thong, who manages and revealed that most Hokkiens when she was 11, planned you surreptitiously tug at your all along. When did a man and Teochews have ordered that is pure and virtuous. In Still, if the trio is thinking of pursuing lives of crime, dinner menu? There are jointly owns a poultry farm, to trick them! least 20 to 30 years each of to be a skinny and beautiful crêpey neck in the bathroom ever worry about losing their livestock and reserved its stead, the mass media with perhaps they should really think again. Is it a good idea, for three sexes here - the capon, has a hard time keeping stock by Friends who are avid full-time cooking for their astronomer, and her friend mirror, bringing back for a a woman to a younger, them for their Hokkien New its soap operas and scandals instance, to leave calling cards at crime scenes? the cockerel and the pullet of his precious brood. i t s cooks and I have tried and respective families. In the Year which falls on February have assumed the role of Because that is exactly what they hand over to police – (also pellet). Each of them Mr Wong confides that tested methods of steaming or case of a pullet or cockerel, 14 this year, the eve of the educator. their individual ID cards – before staging the getaway. And what plays an important role in the the chick’s castration is done striking boiling chicken over the years. celebration of the Chinese p l u m a g e . Jade Emperor’s birthday - 9th should police uncover in the abandoned vehicle? Nothing less by a professional and certified Personally, I find two ways continued on page 11 ABYSMAL than a US-manufactured 9 mm Norinco pistol, a magazine with seven bullets and a collection of false number plates. 2 teaspoons lemon into thin strips. Combine and thickens. Remove What an abysmal future 20 minutes, basting Within hours police have issued an all-points bulletin juice rind, orange juice, sugar, from heat. we are setting up for our frequently with sauce until identifying three men aged 20, 21 and 34 years whom they are 2 cups water vinegar, lemon juice, children. It’s not only the seeking “to assist in investigations”. 1 chicken stock cube water and crumbled stock Stir in Grand Marnier. duck is tender and well environmentalists who have By now, even that threesome might have realised they are 3 teaspoons arrowroot cube in saucepan. glazed. a concern about our future in a considerable amount of trouble and that it is only a matter 1 tablespoon water, extra Drain pan juices from legacy. Any questions about this of time. ½ cup Grand Marnier Stir over heat until baking dish. Pour sauce We should also think recipe please feel free Conversion Table mixture boils, boil rapidly over duck, return to JOB VACANCY IPOH to call Nurina at Kafe about the psychological well- Fair Dinkum uncovered, without oven, bake for a further being of human interaction. ECHO Paprika 012 373 5020 Services Kafe Paprika’s METHOD stirring, until Marketing Assistant If we are to preserve the mixture is integrity of the human spirit, Candidate must be proficient “WE HELP YOU Duck a l’Orange Tie duck’s legs together. reduced by then the youth cult and plastic in written and spoken FIND” Place duck into baking half. values must be sacrificed to English. Orange Sauce can be made Introductions & Matchmaking dish. brush duck with allow for a return to respect Experience in graphic design up to a day ahead if desired. Call : butter. Bake in moderate Stir blended of wisdom. After all, super- is an advantage. This recipe is not suitable oven for about 1 hour. arrowroot and models aren’t the best role Please submit all CV’s to the 605-548 1890 to freeze or microwave. ORANGE SAUCE extra water models. Ipoh Echo at jobs@ipohecho. 016-565 6293 Serves: 4 Brush occasionally with gradually into com.my Peti Surat 596,Taman Ipoh,31407 Feedback should be juices during cooking. sauce. Stir For further information, call Ipoh, Perak,Malaysia. INGREDIENTS 1 orange sent to: ½ cup orange juice c o n s t a n t l y Ramesh at 016-5531092 or E-mail : editorial@ipohecho. 1 tablespoon sugar Remove rind from orange. over heat until 05-2495936 [email protected] 1 duck com.my 30g butter, melted 1 tablespoon white vinegar Remove white pith; cut rind sauce boils 10 IPOH ECHO February 01- 15, 2008 Your Community Newspaper Your Community Newspaper IPOH ECHO February 01- 15, 2008 11

continued from page 9 continued from page 3 Students from participating schools are invited to share their thoughts with others. from specific areas and end inspections, the councillors irresponsible people would Councillors can cajole Contributors may write about or photograph things/events outside their respective the cooking timing is only 30 YOUNG PERAK up consigning their bags to should do it. They do not have throw rubbish on the same and organise residents in their minutes for a bird weighing institutions of learning. Human interest stories, observations and reflections are the most convenient dumps to wait for wailing letters of spots,” the mayor laments. respective areas to participate A section of interest and action two kilos. welcome. E-mail articles to they find. complaint before going out What drives this ever in gotong-royong exercises to

for the youth of our state to see if things are all right expanding and apparently alleviate the rubbish problem. [email protected] attn: Peter Khiew METHOD 2 WHERE DOES THE with and in the city they are never-ending circle? Those affected will surely BUCK STOP? serving. In fact, it is not just the contribute some effort in rid- Put a stainless steel pot nun I had invited to a meal The present mayor’s issue of illegal dumps the City ding their lives of rubbish. over the fire. Fill it with cold GODSPEED, MR WOON . . . in my home loved it so much Where should the duties may have increased Council has to resolve. There To kick-off the assault water (3/4-filled, or more that she sent the hospital buck stop? Clearly, the since the expansion of the city are mounting uncollected on our city’s garbage menace than enough to immerse and Many boys cried the day fell on Fook Sim to look after his Higher School Certificate cook to learn it from me. You mayor is accountable and limit to 642 square kilometres garbage bags outside the gates those in authority should try cover the fowl). Cover the they said good-bye to a the herd. Apart from study- at SM Horley Methodist in can say the scallion, ginger, should examine the ghastly with a population of about of law-abiding ratepayers. and discover why, at any one pot. Bring this pot of water teacher they truly adored. ing to pass his exams, the Teluk Intan, he obtained a soya sauce and sesame dip is predicament of the city’s 650,000. time, almost 50% of the city’s and chicken to boiling point. Readers might find this boy had to see to it that their distinction in Maths – this universally loved. garbage situation. The City No wonder Datuk Bandar PRIVATE EFFORTS dumpster trucks are off the Switch off the fire, and start surprising when they learn goats were safe and had suffi- feat was his ticket to further As for the second dip, Councillors should also Datuk Mohamad Rafiai bin Hj road and listed as non-func- The parting citation timing it - at least 20 minutes that Mr Woon Fook Sim was cient grass to graze. The rub- his studies at the University housewife Mei Ling gave look into their zones of Moktar sounds helpless in the Perhaps, the City tioning. (depending on size), covered. senior assistant in charge of ber tapping and shepherding of Science, Penang. This was friendships he could make? me this recipe: Chop a responsibility. face of the pile of mess he and Council should publicly ad- The Ipoh Echo attempted If you want your chicken to student affairs in 1973. Mr Woon is the only bunch of leaves from about If, unlike Datuk Ismail, his men confront. mit they are unable to cope to do that and got ordered off be thoroughly cooked, give – yes, he looked His early graduate in his family. He 3 sprigs of fresh basil (yee the present Datuk Bandar is “As soon as we clear the alone and should encourage the premises. into matters education was declares that giving up his it 30 minutes for a 2-kilo heong) and place it in a bowl not into daily unannounced illegal rubbish dumps, the private sector participation. of order and in a Chinese studies was never an op- weight. half-filled with soya sauce. discipline! school so he tion. “At the time, I could I recommended this Heat up your kwali and On ‘crazy guy on a bike’ But at was surprised have dropped out and given method to a sister of mine, heat two tablespoonfuls of SMK St when he was full attention to helping my then a novice cook, who had cooking oil. Fry one finger Michael, Mr sent to SMK family eke out a living,” he “SOSed” me almost 10 years chopped young ginger and Heading for Shenzen Woon proved Khir Johari remarks.“But I thought there ago. She now swears by it two chopped scallion heads Law Tzou-Hann, scholar chanced upon an abandoned bitter cold. scheduled fewer stops until he that a person can in Sungai was a better way. I wanted to and would not change it for till fragrant. Add in one and humanitarian cyclist, show room somewhere near At this point, Tzou- reaches Shenzen. wield authority Sumun for his alleviate the economic status any other. The results, she tablespoon oyster sauce and has reached Sauxing. Before Tongxiang and decided it Hann is in a bit of a hurry. He this, he had injured his knee was a break to stay there confides having miscalculated with humility Form Four. of my family and I could do So long . . . says, are always successful - stir quickly, just to blend. Those who wish to and warmth. At first he had that if I educated myself. So, the meat is so tender and the Pour all this into the bowl and taken a few days off the overnight. the distance to Vietnam. He donate to Tzou-Hann’s Students would d i ff i c u l t i e s I decided, I would help skin so smooth. of soya sauce and chopped road. It had an amusing result. notes that in order to reach Charity Ride in aid long remember i n t e r a c t i n g my parents in their basil. Chili padi can be The knee is now OK “At 10.30pm,” he recalls, Vietnam on time, he has to of SMK St George although it still gives him “two chaps walked into the keep up with his him as the with his new work but I would also DIPS & SAUCES chopped and added, to taste. Taiping Development intermittent discomfort. showroom meaning to have riding. He has disciplinarian schoolmates help myself and, in the The third one is from Fund, the National They lined up to say thank you. . . Now for the dips or But Tzou-Hann rides on. a look around… they were who never raised his but he took everything in his end, all of us would be a Teochew housewife. She Cancer Society of voice. lasted until he was in Form stride. He was determined to happy.” sauces. probably like me, trainee uses “cukor” leaves and Malaysia and the Mr Woon shared with Three – this coincided with break through the language Mr Woon Fook the roots (sar keong in EXPEDIENT SLEEPING vagrants. Hearing them MAA-MEDIcare his students the story of his mother’s decision to quit barrier. Today, Mr Woon Sim has been a role Cantonese). Finely slice the ARRANGEMENTS approaching, I stuck my head his difficult youth, perhaps working in the plantation and speaks impeccable English, model to both his col- leaves and mince the roots out of the sleeping bag and Kidney Charity Fund in an effort to suggest to switching to hawking hong Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin, leagues and his stu- - just a handful in all, and Cycling the long way yelled a greeting. I must have should send their them that, with patience tau sar (boiled red bean). She Cantonese, Hakka and even a dents over the years. place them in a rice bowl home to Taiping from the sounded more like a ghoul contributions to: OGA- and perseverance, any boy set up a stall in Teluk Intan smattering of Japanese! He has certainly together with 2 teaspoons trying to get at them for they Longwayhome Charity could attain some measure of and thought Fook Sim would Even as a young student, been inspiring to us salt. In a heated kwali, fry 2 screamed like little girls and Ride, c/o No 36, Ist success. make an able assistant. He Woon Fook Sim found it and we shall miss him tablespoons of cooking oil, fled. I even tried telling them Floor, Jalan Pasar, not to be afraid but they were He was born into poverty did. easier to just face up to a lot. We know that The throw in 2 chopped scallion 34000 Taiping, Perak, off way too soon.” on January 11, 1952. His par- The young assistant went responsibilities and challenges even in retirement he first one heads and stir-fry just to get Malaysia. ents were both rubber tappers home exhausted but managed than dwell on the difficult will find time to - con is a scallion, the aroma. Quickly ladle S o Tzou-Hann kept the and the young Fook Sim him- to attend to homework and aspects of his life. If he tribute to society. ginger, soya sauce and the hot oil over the bowl of showroom all self worked alongside them school projects. Mr Woon could handle herds of goats; Good luck, Mr sesame dip. Just smash and cukor mixture. Quantities of Tzou-Hann’s bedroom for a to himself that night in the early morning hours now says that it wasn’t if he could brave the darkness Woon! chop the white part of three ingredients can vary. Even night. to complement the family all hardship – early on, he in a rubber estate, surely, Lee Seng Hoo, scallions and two fingers of the oil can be controlled or income. Then he would take realised he had a knack for there could be something SMK St Michael, young ginger and place them the salt reduced, if you are the town bus to school. The mathematics. Numbers never worthwhile learning in a new Ipoh. in a bowl. Half -fill the bowl health-conscious. MUSEUM Woons also bred goats and it fazed him. When he took school; surely, there were with a superior quality soya Now, how can you still VISIT sauce and put in half to one wait before putting your PRESENTS FOR SK LA SALLE, teaspoon of sesame oil. Stir culinary skill to the test? If On a really the mixture to infuse the oil you have a better recipe to Somewhere a bit warm misty morning IPOH GARDEN LAURELS FOR SMK SERI KAMPAR and soya sauce. contribute, then I will gladly when visibility USA in the aid of his was too poor Ask any student what the South presented the school “The aroma of this dip add it to the list. whets your appetite,” so said favourite charities has made and miserable basic needs of a classroom with five badly-needed white the 22 year-old engineer quite an American who was first Kung Hei Fatt Choi for cycling, he are and the immediate boards and thirty bi-lingual resourceful. He has definitely introduced to it when I was in from the cockerel to all our decided to pay answers will include: white dictionaries for use by both become less fussy about New York. It was winter and readers and may the Year of a short visit to boards, dictionaries and a the teaching staff and their living conditions - the food, we were having a steamboat the Water Rat shower upon the museum. little encouragement. students. the water, shelter. dinner. us good health and good He looks at it Along the way, Tzou- The dip goes very well luck. this way: he fed with all types of meat which Hann has found himself his mind and he are plainly served. An Irish Cheng Sun Mooi settling for unusual sleeping gave his body arrangements. Once, he a rest from the

Raja Abdul Rahman Raja Amran Innovative and creative teachers who fashion their GENERAL ZULKIFLI IN COMMAND own software and use these Outgoing commander He later oversaw the handing- command the Second Infantry The Headmaster, school PTA Chairman, Members of the PTA, as tools for their classes of Perak-based Second over of command between Brigade - an achievement of Rotary Club of Ipoh South members and students of the school. The school on Jalan Tenesu in Kampar photographed by Rosli Mansor are likely to produce more Infantry Brigade, Brig-Jen Brig-Jen Dato’ Fazlurrahman sorts for the Ranger Corps. competent students. Members of the Rotary The headmaster, Lai Kum Dato’ Fazlurrahman bin and his successor, Brig- This was the sentiment individuals. another Fourth Former, got Government was prompted Club of Ipoh South came up Ming said the dictionaries, Mohd Irfan, was given a Jen Zulkifli bin Mansor. conveyed by South Kinta Some 100 students who a consolation prize for the to offer Cheong a scholarship with a response to ensure that would certainly help students rousing farewell at a parade Fazlurrahman will assume District Education Officer excelled in co-curriculum national consumerism essay to read medicine at the the pupils at SK La Salle in become more proficient in organised in his honour the post of Assistant Raja Abdul Rahman activities throughout the writing competition. Perak College of Medicine Ipoh Garden have what they spoken and written English. on Saturday, January 19, Commander Reserve Forces Raja Amran at the recent year received medals and SMK Kampar made (PCM). At the time, The require. Knowledge is truly He also stated that the strong 2008. at the Ministry of Defence, Appreciation Night for certificates. Among the headlines when one of its state executive council also acquired when both mentors support extended to the school The ceremony, held at the Kuala Lumpur. Zulkifli is teachers and students top achievers were Fourth products, Cheong Chee Yen agreed to allocate RM30,000 and students find some by various organisations has headquarters’ parade ground, from the Rangers and was at SMK Seri Kampar. Formers Eng Yee Kit and made both his school and to SMK Seri Kampar for enjoyment in the process encouraged their pupils to was attended by officers and the Commanding Officer of Imaginative teachers, he Leong Wai Kit who scored Perak proud by emerging producing the best STMP and how can there be fun in perform well - SK La Salle men of the brigade. General the Second Battalion Royal added, inspire students to be high distinction in the 2007 as Malaysia’s top STPM student in the country. a classroom lacking in the achieve hundred per cent Officer Commanding Second Ranger Regiment at Camp more observant, reflective Australian Mathematics scorer of 5Asw. He sat for Foo Shiew Chen necessary tools for teaching passes in the English language Infantry Division, Maj-Jen Syed Putra, Jalan Tambun in and learning? and analytical well-rounded Competition. Kong Kit Ching, the exams in 2002. The Perak Teacher, SMK Seri Kampar Dato’ Raja Affendi bin Raja the late 1990s. He is the first in the UPSR examinations. Raja Affendi (centre) taking the salute. Fazlurrahman (left) handing over command to Zulkifli (right) The Rotarians of Ipoh Mohamad was also present. full-fledged Ranger officer to 10 IPOH ECHO February 01- 15, 2008 Your Community Newspaper Your Community Newspaper IPOH ECHO February 01- 15, 2008 11

continued from page 9 continued from page 3 Students from participating schools are invited to share their thoughts with others. from specific areas and end inspections, the councillors irresponsible people would Councillors can cajole Contributors may write about or photograph things/events outside their respective the cooking timing is only 30 YOUNG PERAK up consigning their bags to should do it. They do not have throw rubbish on the same and organise residents in their minutes for a bird weighing institutions of learning. Human interest stories, observations and reflections are the most convenient dumps to wait for wailing letters of spots,” the mayor laments. respective areas to participate A section of interest and action two kilos. welcome. E-mail articles to they find. complaint before going out What drives this ever in gotong-royong exercises to

for the youth of our state to see if things are all right expanding and apparently alleviate the rubbish problem. [email protected] attn: Peter Khiew METHOD 2 WHERE DOES THE with and in the city they are never-ending circle? Those affected will surely BUCK STOP? serving. In fact, it is not just the contribute some effort in rid- Put a stainless steel pot nun I had invited to a meal The present mayor’s issue of illegal dumps the City ding their lives of rubbish. over the fire. Fill it with cold GODSPEED, MR WOON . . . in my home loved it so much Where should the duties may have increased Council has to resolve. There To kick-off the assault water (3/4-filled, or more that she sent the hospital buck stop? Clearly, the since the expansion of the city are mounting uncollected on our city’s garbage menace than enough to immerse and Many boys cried the day fell on Fook Sim to look after his Higher School Certificate cook to learn it from me. You mayor is accountable and limit to 642 square kilometres garbage bags outside the gates those in authority should try cover the fowl). Cover the they said good-bye to a the herd. Apart from study- at SM Horley Methodist in can say the scallion, ginger, should examine the ghastly with a population of about of law-abiding ratepayers. and discover why, at any one pot. Bring this pot of water teacher they truly adored. ing to pass his exams, the Teluk Intan, he obtained a soya sauce and sesame dip is predicament of the city’s 650,000. time, almost 50% of the city’s and chicken to boiling point. Readers might find this boy had to see to it that their distinction in Maths – this universally loved. garbage situation. The City No wonder Datuk Bandar PRIVATE EFFORTS dumpster trucks are off the Switch off the fire, and start surprising when they learn goats were safe and had suffi- feat was his ticket to further As for the second dip, Councillors should also Datuk Mohamad Rafiai bin Hj road and listed as non-func- The parting citation timing it - at least 20 minutes that Mr Woon Fook Sim was cient grass to graze. The rub- his studies at the University housewife Mei Ling gave look into their zones of Moktar sounds helpless in the Perhaps, the City tioning. (depending on size), covered. senior assistant in charge of ber tapping and shepherding of Science, Penang. This was friendships he could make? me this recipe: Chop a responsibility. face of the pile of mess he and Council should publicly ad- The Ipoh Echo attempted If you want your chicken to student affairs in 1973. Mr Woon is the only bunch of leaves from about If, unlike Datuk Ismail, his men confront. mit they are unable to cope to do that and got ordered off be thoroughly cooked, give – yes, he looked His early graduate in his family. He 3 sprigs of fresh basil (yee the present Datuk Bandar is “As soon as we clear the alone and should encourage the premises. into matters education was declares that giving up his it 30 minutes for a 2-kilo heong) and place it in a bowl not into daily unannounced illegal rubbish dumps, the private sector participation. of order and in a Chinese studies was never an op- weight. half-filled with soya sauce. discipline! school so he tion. “At the time, I could I recommended this Heat up your kwali and On ‘crazy guy on a bike’ But at was surprised have dropped out and given method to a sister of mine, heat two tablespoonfuls of SMK St when he was full attention to helping my then a novice cook, who had cooking oil. Fry one finger Michael, Mr sent to SMK family eke out a living,” he “SOSed” me almost 10 years chopped young ginger and Heading for Shenzen Woon proved Khir Johari remarks.“But I thought there ago. She now swears by it two chopped scallion heads Law Tzou-Hann, scholar chanced upon an abandoned bitter cold. scheduled fewer stops until he that a person can in Sungai was a better way. I wanted to and would not change it for till fragrant. Add in one and humanitarian cyclist, show room somewhere near At this point, Tzou- reaches Shenzen. wield authority Sumun for his alleviate the economic status any other. The results, she tablespoon oyster sauce and has reached Sauxing. Before Tongxiang and decided it Hann is in a bit of a hurry. He this, he had injured his knee was a break to stay there confides having miscalculated with humility Form Four. of my family and I could do So long . . . says, are always successful - stir quickly, just to blend. Those who wish to and warmth. At first he had that if I educated myself. So, the meat is so tender and the Pour all this into the bowl and taken a few days off the overnight. the distance to Vietnam. He donate to Tzou-Hann’s Students would d i ff i c u l t i e s I decided, I would help skin so smooth. of soya sauce and chopped road. It had an amusing result. notes that in order to reach Charity Ride in aid long remember i n t e r a c t i n g my parents in their basil. Chili padi can be The knee is now OK “At 10.30pm,” he recalls, Vietnam on time, he has to of SMK St George although it still gives him “two chaps walked into the keep up with his him as the with his new work but I would also DIPS & SAUCES chopped and added, to taste. Taiping Development intermittent discomfort. showroom meaning to have riding. He has disciplinarian schoolmates help myself and, in the The third one is from Fund, the National They lined up to say thank you. . . Now for the dips or But Tzou-Hann rides on. a look around… they were who never raised his but he took everything in his end, all of us would be a Teochew housewife. She Cancer Society of voice. lasted until he was in Form stride. He was determined to happy.” sauces. probably like me, trainee uses “cukor” leaves and Malaysia and the Mr Woon shared with Three – this coincided with break through the language Mr Woon Fook the roots (sar keong in EXPEDIENT SLEEPING vagrants. Hearing them MAA-MEDIcare his students the story of his mother’s decision to quit barrier. Today, Mr Woon Sim has been a role Cantonese). Finely slice the ARRANGEMENTS approaching, I stuck my head his difficult youth, perhaps working in the plantation and speaks impeccable English, model to both his col- leaves and mince the roots out of the sleeping bag and Kidney Charity Fund in an effort to suggest to switching to hawking hong Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin, leagues and his stu- - just a handful in all, and Cycling the long way yelled a greeting. I must have should send their them that, with patience tau sar (boiled red bean). She Cantonese, Hakka and even a dents over the years. place them in a rice bowl home to Taiping from the sounded more like a ghoul contributions to: OGA- and perseverance, any boy set up a stall in Teluk Intan smattering of Japanese! He has certainly together with 2 teaspoons trying to get at them for they Longwayhome Charity could attain some measure of and thought Fook Sim would Even as a young student, been inspiring to us salt. In a heated kwali, fry 2 screamed like little girls and Ride, c/o No 36, Ist success. make an able assistant. He Woon Fook Sim found it and we shall miss him tablespoons of cooking oil, fled. I even tried telling them Floor, Jalan Pasar, not to be afraid but they were He was born into poverty did. easier to just face up to a lot. We know that The throw in 2 chopped scallion 34000 Taiping, Perak, off way too soon.” on January 11, 1952. His par- The young assistant went responsibilities and challenges even in retirement he first one heads and stir-fry just to get Malaysia. ents were both rubber tappers home exhausted but managed than dwell on the difficult will find time to - con is a scallion, the aroma. Quickly ladle S o Tzou-Hann kept the and the young Fook Sim him- to attend to homework and aspects of his life. If he tribute to society. ginger, soya sauce and the hot oil over the bowl of showroom all self worked alongside them school projects. Mr Woon could handle herds of goats; Good luck, Mr sesame dip. Just smash and cukor mixture. Quantities of Tzou-Hann’s bedroom for a to himself that night in the early morning hours now says that it wasn’t if he could brave the darkness Woon! chop the white part of three ingredients can vary. Even night. to complement the family all hardship – early on, he in a rubber estate, surely, Lee Seng Hoo, scallions and two fingers of the oil can be controlled or income. Then he would take realised he had a knack for there could be something SMK St Michael, young ginger and place them the salt reduced, if you are the town bus to school. The mathematics. Numbers never worthwhile learning in a new Ipoh. in a bowl. Half -fill the bowl health-conscious. MUSEUM Woons also bred goats and it fazed him. When he took school; surely, there were with a superior quality soya Now, how can you still VISIT sauce and put in half to one wait before putting your PRESENTS FOR SK LA SALLE, teaspoon of sesame oil. Stir culinary skill to the test? If On a really the mixture to infuse the oil you have a better recipe to Somewhere a bit warm misty morning IPOH GARDEN LAURELS FOR SMK SERI KAMPAR and soya sauce. contribute, then I will gladly when visibility USA in the aid of his was too poor Ask any student what the South presented the school “The aroma of this dip add it to the list. whets your appetite,” so said favourite charities has made and miserable basic needs of a classroom with five badly-needed white the 22 year-old engineer quite an American who was first Kung Hei Fatt Choi for cycling, he are and the immediate boards and thirty bi-lingual resourceful. He has definitely introduced to it when I was in from the cockerel to all our decided to pay answers will include: white dictionaries for use by both become less fussy about New York. It was winter and readers and may the Year of a short visit to boards, dictionaries and a the teaching staff and their living conditions - the food, we were having a steamboat the Water Rat shower upon the museum. little encouragement. students. the water, shelter. dinner. us good health and good He looks at it Along the way, Tzou- The dip goes very well luck. this way: he fed with all types of meat which Hann has found himself his mind and he are plainly served. An Irish Cheng Sun Mooi settling for unusual sleeping gave his body arrangements. Once, he a rest from the

Raja Abdul Rahman Raja Amran Innovative and creative teachers who fashion their GENERAL ZULKIFLI IN COMMAND own software and use these Outgoing commander He later oversaw the handing- command the Second Infantry The Headmaster, school PTA Chairman, Members of the PTA, as tools for their classes of Perak-based Second over of command between Brigade - an achievement of Rotary Club of Ipoh South members and students of the school. The school on Jalan Tenesu in Kampar photographed by Rosli Mansor are likely to produce more Infantry Brigade, Brig-Jen Brig-Jen Dato’ Fazlurrahman sorts for the Ranger Corps. competent students. Members of the Rotary The headmaster, Lai Kum Dato’ Fazlurrahman bin and his successor, Brig- This was the sentiment individuals. another Fourth Former, got Government was prompted Club of Ipoh South came up Ming said the dictionaries, Mohd Irfan, was given a Jen Zulkifli bin Mansor. conveyed by South Kinta Some 100 students who a consolation prize for the to offer Cheong a scholarship with a response to ensure that would certainly help students rousing farewell at a parade Fazlurrahman will assume District Education Officer excelled in co-curriculum national consumerism essay to read medicine at the the pupils at SK La Salle in become more proficient in organised in his honour the post of Assistant Raja Abdul Rahman activities throughout the writing competition. Perak College of Medicine Ipoh Garden have what they spoken and written English. on Saturday, January 19, Commander Reserve Forces Raja Amran at the recent year received medals and SMK Kampar made (PCM). At the time, The require. Knowledge is truly He also stated that the strong 2008. at the Ministry of Defence, Appreciation Night for certificates. Among the headlines when one of its state executive council also acquired when both mentors support extended to the school The ceremony, held at the Kuala Lumpur. Zulkifli is teachers and students top achievers were Fourth products, Cheong Chee Yen agreed to allocate RM30,000 and students find some by various organisations has headquarters’ parade ground, from the Rangers and was at SMK Seri Kampar. Formers Eng Yee Kit and made both his school and to SMK Seri Kampar for enjoyment in the process encouraged their pupils to was attended by officers and the Commanding Officer of Imaginative teachers, he Leong Wai Kit who scored Perak proud by emerging producing the best STMP and how can there be fun in perform well - SK La Salle men of the brigade. General the Second Battalion Royal added, inspire students to be high distinction in the 2007 as Malaysia’s top STPM student in the country. a classroom lacking in the achieve hundred per cent Officer Commanding Second Ranger Regiment at Camp more observant, reflective Australian Mathematics scorer of 5Asw. He sat for Foo Shiew Chen necessary tools for teaching passes in the English language Infantry Division, Maj-Jen Syed Putra, Jalan Tambun in and learning? and analytical well-rounded Competition. Kong Kit Ching, the exams in 2002. The Perak Teacher, SMK Seri Kampar Dato’ Raja Affendi bin Raja the late 1990s. He is the first in the UPSR examinations. Raja Affendi (centre) taking the salute. Fazlurrahman (left) handing over command to Zulkifli (right) The Rotarians of Ipoh Mohamad was also present. full-fledged Ranger officer to 12 IPOH ECHO February 01-15 , 2008 Your Community Newspaper

TERRIFYING MY 3 YEAR-OLD – UNACCEPTABLE - Steve Darby By our own correspondent

Perak State football coach, “As far as we are the recent incident between Steve Darby, won’t be concerned, Steve has done a themselves and Darby. taking his wife or three year- good job for Perak and has Jamil still maintains, old daughter to any further been managing the team very though, that he and his team matches until he’s well,’ Mahiyuddin told The followers within the fan sure rough-house treatment Star’s football writer, Ronnie club remain unmoved on directed his way recently by Oh. their earlier demands that certain identified fans has In another interview, Darby be sacked. These, been knocked on the head Mahiyuddin assured the New they maintain publicly, are for good. Straits Times that the PFA based on convictions that the Speaking to staffers at would certainly be standing recent signings of Chilean the Ipoh Echo office, Steve, by Darby until his contract footballers Mario Estaban, who is also the state team’s expires at the end of October Jorge Antonio and Carlos manager, made it clear that this year. Caceres have proven to be paramount in his mind at major errors on Darby’s part. autographs and this time were requirements JAMIL’S GROUP The Chilean trio, Jamil has h a v i n g for the absolute safety of his BACKTRACKS stated, is unable to match the n u m e r o u s young family. successes achieved by last photos taken by “Nothing is more im- As originally related by season’s foreign players for kids. portant to me than that,” Perak’s fan club president, Perak – Troare Aboulaye and “Suddenly I was said Steve, adding: “That my Abdul Jamil Othman, it Keita Mandjou. screamed at and abused wife and child should ever was Steve who first injected from about half a metre be subjected to outbursts of unpleasant remarks and A VERY DIFFERENT away by a fan I recognised. language and uncontrolled an obscene gesture in an STORY He was yelling at me in Steve and daughter Quinn emotion, verging on violence, exchange with a fan following Bahasa and broken English. is quite unacceptable. That Perak’s 5-2 drubbing by But there is another very My daughter was naturally Quinn. My main aim then was of the exchange between fan small group of fans responsible Kedah at Ipoh on January 12. different side to the incident petrified at this utterly to protect my little one. I then and team manager after the had better understand my Since then, however, the – the one told quietly and unwarranted outburst. ‘Who drove off home.” January 12 match. position.” fan club has been forced to thoughtfully to the Echo by is the bad man daddy?’ she Like the PFA and backtrack significantly from Steve himself. It goes like asked and began to cry. SOLID EVIDENCE the FAM who have fully PFA SUPPORTS STEVE its initial stand against the this: “I responded to my supported Steve in this manager. The backtracking “After the January 12 verbal attacker in Bahasa: ‘I The Ipoh Echo is now matter, so does the Ipoh Clearly, the Perak has taken the curious form of game I was walking from don’t understand you, you holding a document suggesting Echo. Football Association (PFA) an apology for the incident the dressing room to my stupid man” (Saya tidak faham the verbal confrontation with Steve has written, is standing firmly behind extended – not to Steve car with my three year- bodoh.) I am reasonably Darby erupted for an entirely without fear or favour, for their coach/manager. The Darby personally – but to old daughter, Quinn, in my fluent in Bahasa and could different reason to that being our columns for some time organisation’s Vice President, the PFA as a whole. In this, arms. I had advanced about have called him a number of offered openly by the fan club now and we are delighted to Datuk Mahiyuddin Arshad, Jamil expresses his regrets 10 metres into an area from abusive terms but did not. president. Additionally, there be able to report that he will has been quick to come out and extends his apologies on which fans should have been I was also very concerned is also strong video evidence continue to do so. publicly in support of Steve. behalf of club members for restricted. There I was signing for the stress he had caused totally refuting Jamil’s version

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