Ruminations while perambulating

Better sanitation will do more to help with development than more monetary aid . Before Malaysia can call itself developed I think everyone and this will include even the Orang Aslis and the Sabah and Sarawak Natives in the deepest jungles should have access to clean water and sanitatation. From the look of this: It can be done without the need for too much money only that the cronies won't make money.

     For infrastructure, such as the catheter laboratory or surgical operating theatre, to get the most return of investment you must keep the them running 24 hours a day.      For investments in equipment, such endoscopes and computed tomography scans, you can run long periods but must have adequate downtime for repairs, cool-down, and maintenance. If you run them like how you run infrastructure you might end up putting more into repairs and losing more through machine breakdowns that causes delays and backlog of cases.      Human resources are the one that requires the most down time because the longer you work them the more mistakes they make and in the end you spend more time cleaning up mistakes than clearing the backlog. The most they should be worked is 12 hours and that is pushing it.     So if you have 2 scope rooms they have to be running 24 hours a day except for cleaning and maintenance. 3 endoscopy systems to be shared between the two rooms, each one only on for 16 hours a

In order to enjoy fresh produces that won't poison you we need to maintain the water quality not just at the surrounding sea but the rivers which carry water into the sea. To do that you will riparian buffers. Image from  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/17e208eb835f49639ed8d43ea7494b19 Riparian buffers are easy to make and the consist of three zones: Zone one is just keeping up to 10 meters of whatever that has been growing there on either side; zone two is 20 meters of trees that you prune, trim, and manage on and off to maintain rapid growth and nutrient absorption; zone three is the final 20 meters of grass and shrubs to stop surface run-off. You can put bicycle trails and walkways in zone two and three so that society can benefit and will not perceive riparian buffers are liabilities but assets. Another way of benefiting society will the planting of fruit trees and since it encouraged that the biomass be reduced the public should be encouraged to harvest and even make off

The first time I tried sea grapes was in Anda in the Philippines. In Malaysia it is called latok while in the Philippines it is lato. It is quite obvious that both words are cognates. It is slightly salty and fishy, which is the taste of the sea. These wonderful bounties of nature need clean sea-water so we must keep our rivers clean and preserve our mangrove swamps.

So Professor Neil Ferguson has  resigned but here now lies an opportunity for Malaysia; if he were to be fired we would do well to hire him on the cheap for a year or two let him rehabilitate and redeem himself, write a few papers with us, and after his time in purgatory he can go back to a cushy job, which he will, in the United Kingdom but by then we would have learned his kungfu and modelling skills.

As a general rule the Malayo-Polynesian peoples love song and dance, and are great singers. They people the world from the island of Hawaii and Polynesia to the Phipippines and furthest West in Madagascar, from Taiwan in the North to New Zealand in the South. Witness Morisette Amos perform "Akin Ka Na Lang" But she is not the only great singer among her peoples. There is Dame Tiri Te Kanawa of the Maori peoples of New Zealand perform Tarakihi Israel Kamakiwiwo'ole of the Hawaiian peoples perform "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" The Underground Boys of Tana of the Malagasy peoples in Madagascar Igay and Duana Difang of the Amis people in Taiwan From North to South, East and West!

When I see breadfruit tree, I don't just see a tree; I see 'The Bounty' taking on the seedlings to plant in a foreign land to feed the slaves. I see the mutineers casting a drift Captain Bligh and the officers on a life boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean; I see them navigating their way over 3000 km back to landfall. I see the mutineers burning the ship; the men killing each other and the survivors turning to the Bible; later becoming Seventh Day Adventists. So many stories for just a breadfruit tree.