Safer Blue Wave.

My colleague Lynn came back in one piece from Koh Samui which didn't get hit at all by the recent catastrophy but got hit by this instead. She's always adventurous at trying all kinds of foreign ciggies. This one is just RM1.90 per pack. If you see her smoking from the back and get to view her renewed tattoo on her right shoulder blade.... fuuhhhhh, you'd think she's Helen, the cast in Kung Fu Hustler! Sorry Lynn, love making fun of you! This woman has such a good heart though.

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Heard that they're stopping people from donating anymore clothes. It is getting too arsey to organise the bundles. I knew it! Some are already clever enough to request the clothes to be segregated from home according to:
1. T Shirts or Shirts.
2. Trousers
3. Sarongs
4. Slippers or Sandals
5. Sling or backpacks
6. Blankets
7. Sweaters
8. Undergarments - for babies only. If u insist to provide the adults, please purchase new ones!

A lot of idiots actually use this excuse to look for an instant dumping ground for their old corporate mini skirts, grandfather's 4kg jackets, 80's parrot coloured shoulder padded blazers, sequinned baju kurungs, spaghetti strapped dresses.. I just can't describe more. Check NST page two today, even dirty clothes and old tin cans were delivered!?!?. It becomes a chore for the collector to have to manage the 'garbage'! Think of how 'rugbified' it gets when people need to rush for clothes only to find things they don't need. Think! It's not like there's not enough garbage in Acheh and Sri Lanka that needs to be burnt.

Side track: If the Thai's T-Shirt manufacturer can make 'I Survived Tsunami' in a jiffy, they'd make so much. Ok, I know it's not funny.

I guess right now the millions of dollars being donated can be quite hard to be appreciated. It's ironic that donation in kind can be more quantified. Maybe if no one can offer to help make temporary shelters for them, they/we can provide necessary materials since these people are more expert in building instant homes . They get the free food, where do they cook them? Where can they keep them? The clothes? Not just in their hands, not just under the donated canvas tents!

During the monsoon seasons, my cousins and I used to make a roof shaped hut out of tapioca sticks and coconut leaves. It's big enough for three to sit inside to share our daily collection of mangosteen and duku langsat. But when it rains we have to run back into our house.

I respect the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka the most when it comes to organising dead bodies. They actually thought of instant cameras; snapped all the faces of those who died and paste it on a large board. No claims are allowed though, they handled everything. The food were given out fair and square numbered and named! Excellent these people.