Niamah... Rais Yatim

Mr Rais Yatim: What's went wrong with u, Sir?

Is not about swine or pig! Is Influenza A (H1N1)!! Pls don't mislead, ok !?

 

When i heard the news from RTM & 8TV, i was like WTF?!?!  Another flip flop... swine flu -> H1N1 -> swine flu.. Selsema babi -> babi.. babi

 

Comments...

 

 

Babi, babi.. easy to say-mah. Malaysian like to take thing easy and words that are complicated don't appeal to them.So
how to progress as a nation?!

 

Selsema Babi sounds more terrifying, so in that sense, you'll take more precautions. H1N1? WTF is that?

 

See? Now you're scared by the mere mention of BABI! Maybe we should call the flu Selsema Rais. That will be more terror!

 

What is his agenda? It is the Minister of Health's prerogative as to the correct terminology to be used. Rais has to follow-mah

 

  

From Patrick Teoh's Niamah...

The World Health Organisation has long declared it a pandemic. Most countries in South East Asia and East Asia have put in place stringent measures to contain the spread of the disease.

Thermal scans at entry points...temperature checks at schools...voluntary home quarantines and so on.

But in Malaysia our attitude seems to be..."Eh leh! What's the problem? Won't affect us too much la." And the perenial favorite, "How many mati (die)? 2 ah? Naer mine la." And we continue on our happy ways.

And our honourable (and I use this word rather loosely) ministers instead treat us to a debate on what to call the damned bug that causes the damned disease!!!

The world calls it Influenza A (H1N1) And the Malaysian Minister of Health says that we should follow suit.

And then...I suppose also because Malaysian politics recently has become a tad boring for the YB's...our Minister of Information jumps in and says, Cannot! That would confuse people. We call it Swine Flu! The original name ma.



Then he said that his reason was so that people (I suppose he means only Malaysians) would realise the danger of the disease and to get the message across to them more accurately.

Firstly, I am quite confused already at the first part of that statement. Realise the danger? If the disease kicks your stupid ass and you die I guess that's pretty damn dangerous isn't it? Even if you call the bug Cik Siti.

Secondly, what's the second part of that statement trying to say? Get the message across more accurately by calling it Swine Flu. What is the YB trying to say?

That only pork-eaters will die ah? Or worse, it's all the pork-eaters fault ah? That kind of reasoning is more dangerous than any flu virus will ever be.

Our YB then proceeded to (he is in charge of RTM radio and television ma) inform us that Swine Flu or in Bahasa Malaysia, Sel-se-ma Babi, is easier for radio and TV announcers to say compared to In-flu-en-za A (H1N1).



Proves what I have always suspected. RTM radio and TV announcers have problems pronouncing words with more than 3 syllables.

I've always thought our minister of information an intelligent man. But he's increasingly proving that he is just .............

A POLTICIAN!

NIAMAH!!!