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i have been to sabah.

i have lived in sabah.

and i have worked in sabah.

with that my heart goes out to them.

so it kills me when i heard my friend told me that QE Hospital has been out of order for quite some time and they have to shuttle back and forth between 3 places; Likas Hospital, Luyang (the State Health Dept is renting out Sabah Medical Centre) and the functional part of Queen Elizabeth would be HELL.

sometims i just don't know what goes on in these people's head. some of the relatives especially the pediatrics wards sleep on the floor underneath the bed of the patient. sigh..

there are no plans yet to rebuild QE (the HEART OF SABAH health care) that i have heard of. the Dept has spent thousands of Ringgit renting SMC and the Shuttle transportation.

the roads are terrible, the health care system is at a stretch; legal and illegal populations to treat. they can always chose to treat Malaysians only but for how long can you sleep at night denying humans from the treatment that they needed?

i love sabah, and i miss it but it kills me that when we are living the Kay Ell Dreams some of them are still using the rain water for basic necessity.

http://unwantedcitizen.blogspot.com/

stop being a fool people, sabah and sarawak are our family!

Abdullah goes back to alma mater

By DERRICK VINESH

BUKIT MERTAJAM: It was a nostalgic trip down memory lane for Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi when he visited his alma mater, the Bukit Mertajam High School, yesterday.

Visiting his Form 5A classroom on the first floor of Block A, the Prime Minister turned to look at the spot where his desk was. “This is where I used to sit when I was in Form 5A,” he revealed before opening the school’s 82-year-old Block C and 80-year old hall which were recently restored at the cost of RM4.16mil.

Back to school: Ong (right) giving English Literature lesson to Abdullah (in blue shirt next to the door) and old classmates at the Bukit Mertajam High School yesterday.

To relive the old times, nine classmates of Abdullah’s class of 1955 attended a special English Literature session with their former teacher Ong Poh Kee, now 85.

Ong gave a five-minute lesson on R.D. Blackmore’s popular novel Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, briefly touching on its synopsis, main characters, venue and historical background.

In his speech, Abdullah said Ong picked the particular lesson as he recalled that he did not manage to completely teaching it while he was his student.

He said the novel was about courage, determination and perseverance.

“And it is also my advice to students of this school if they want to do well in life,” he said.

He said he hoped the school would regain its reputation as one of the better schools in Penang excelling in sports and academic performance.

Abdullah recalled having to travel 21km by bus from his home in Kepala Batas to school daily. After school, he would rush home to attend religious classes.

“This is where I first made friends with non-Malay students. It is here that I first learnt English. At home, nobody could guide me in my English lessons and I relied on my teachers here,” he said.

In 2007, Abdullah announced a RM20mil development fund for the school under the Ninth Malaysia Plan for the construction of a hostel, teachers’ quarters, sports pavilion and laboratory.

He also approved a further grant of RM3.5mil for repairwork on the 82-year-old school.