Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Fresh Japanese/Korean/China/Taiwanese Foods @ Penang

At time of tapping my thoughts into this blog the fourth reactor at Fukushima has exploded.

It makes sense to avoid these food items for the time being.
Do be aware that some foods from China are imported into and reexported from Japan,thus I guess it will take the other route,vice versa,now that this has happened.
Seafoods and seaweeds should be on the top of your list of what to avoid knowing how lax our authorities are at screening.
Custom officers only stop people on a hunch,that it makes smuggling quite a breeze.
Just see how many Iranians got in,for so many years before customs were alerted to their dark side.

In other words if you know that this has happened only YOU can stop yourself and your family from consuming contaminated foods.
Frankly it is a tall order and a true nightmare since radiation stays in the ground for years on end.Worst of all,we Malaysians forget so easily,evident in the fried dace and luncheon meats gracing our shelves again.

Which brings me to wonder why Mahathir bothered to pen a memoir that still doesn't reveal which part of Perak is the dumping ground for the toxic waste from a well publicised case many,many years ago?
Why take the secret to the grave with you,you media mad devious devil tyrant old man?

Do not mean to sound insensitive to the Japanese people staying in Penang.
It is a catastrophe that no one deserves to go through.
I bear no grudge against them.I will not submit to the indoctrination pumped into our heads by our mother tongue schools because I do not believe in prolonging hatred or hatching revenge.
When I visited the country at the peak of some mighty inflammatory China demonstrations a few years back,they protected our group so tightly so no other Japanese would even have the chance to retaliate or vent their anger upon us and showed us the meaning of respect,love and restraint in that trying period.

Let the past be the past and help them in their time of need.
Stop bringing up the ghosts of wars long gone.
If you have ever been in a room together with a Jew and a German,you would know what I mean.
The young Jews still hold such fervent deep set anger towards the current generation of Germans,wherever they travel,all corners of the world,that they go all out to make life hell for them,depriving them of sleep,making their life a sheer misery.
Why should we chinese diaspora follow that vile path too?

The Japanese womenfolk are some of the kindest souls,always charitable,helpful and hospitable.
Do help return the favour without prejudice nor intent to punish the younger innocent generation.
You can make donations through various agencies or send letters of support to their shell shocked embassies.

In the meantime a checklist for authorities to consider and monitor
  1. That port authorities do not forget that they should be screening fishing vessels for radiation.There are plenty of Taiwanese trawlers combing our shores.It should be cause for concern bearing the proximity of the two nations.
  2. The wildlife department too should keep track of migratory birds.
  3. Once again, our government needs to mull and study whether they should fly back our citizens.HELLO? France has already issued a travel advisory to its citizens to get out of Tokyo since radiation clouds only require a few hours to reach the city!Come on,it is a few hundered people and you give $100,000 in trusts to ONE Datuk Lee Chong Wei????Where is your priority?
  4. The person that looks mighty displeased and combative over this whole tragedy is that Datuk Seri Peter Chin Fah Kui.How distasteful!! He really should take stock of himself or send someone to represent his fat face on national telly and stop worrying about how he is going to make billions because we really are AGAINST a nuclear facility being set up in Malaysia.
  5. Another source of contention is our HUMAN TRAFFICKING AGENTS aka travel agencies who have issued an ultimate for customers to fly THERE within two weeks or face forfeiture of paid monies.
  6. Again there is no travel advisory issued by Wisma Putra cos they need more time to study how to milk more $$$ out of an evacuation exercise.

There aren't many words of comfort that one can offer since we cannot fathom the destruction stemming from a tsunami of this scale.
Perhaps prayer will help.
First and foremost a prayer for our Malaysian citizens stuck in Japan.Let's hope that they will remain safe and our stupid embassy gets the green light and greenback to fly them back.
Please stop telling us about how many times the 67 SMART TEAM members flight INTO JAPAN has been deferred when you don't even care two hoots about our own citizens!

Lastly a prayer for the Japanese people.
That positive energy emenating from each and everyone of us in their time of need,hopefully will help heal and leave their indomitable spirit intact.
May they stay strong and hope no more tragedy befalls their beautiful nation