Ranger thumping a ride got rejected by driver in freeway.

Malaysia: A ranger who tried to hitch a ride into his regular watering hole got bump off. He was using the service of the Jungle Express Share A Ride Service.

The share a ride scheme was supposed to conserve fuel and contribute to a green environment. So on a hunch, he tried to clamber on his ride. Charlie A Pachydem, the driver was waiting patiently for Mohd Hadzli Awang to close the door and fastened his seat belt.

Suddenly he remembered that he left something behind and wanted to disembark and reach for the public phone. On the way out he tripped.

Charlie ,who is new to the cab rank was enraged. He had not passed his basic cab driver licence yet. Being a silent type with big brown eyes , Charlie took the slight badly. So when Hadzli fell, he as the saying goes, had it. Charlies showed him his foot, size xxxl, still attached to his body, and weighing a tons ,as they say.

For good measure, Charlie also show his entended molars. Charlies forget to visit the Dentist recently.I overgrew and sort of stick out like a sore thump.
Charlie instantly made a few impressions on the rider. Hadzli had enough, He scream for help and tried to press the abort ride button.
Help came along, although the operator tried to ask a few questions, like where are you now. Sort of irrelevant questions like the priest answered, you are up in a telephone pole when the skydiver asked for help after he was blown off course.
Meanwhile Hadzli,s friends showed up and tried to help him. He shooed Charlie away.
He got to do it gently and safetly because Charlie , the big guy, and big guy dont give way. Manners !
Nowaday everybody thought they are the New York Cab drivers, where rudeness comes together free , with a ride. Charlie is going to get no tips. But it does not matter if you are an elephant.
Meanwhile, Hadzli headed to hospital with Charlies wraths to show. He is expected to have a slow recovery. Hadzli is expected not to make a trunk call to tell his relative, but use a mobile phone. It is much safer.

Crooked bridge leading to same wanted says businessman

There was once a crooked little man

who walk with a crooked walking stick

Who live a crooked little life and

Marries a crooked little wife

Together they live in their crooked ways

And live happily day after days

Adventure in Dangerland. It is on the way, the revival of the crooked bridge concept. Shelved under Badawi, a Baby of Mathadir, new minted Premier Najib would probably revived the crooked bridge.

It was proposed previously due to opposition by the Singapore side, which do not see a need for another bridge over troubled water.

Observer noted that it is probably for their port of Southern Johore. Due to legal reasons, the proposed bridge then was to swing to a height near Johor and then meet the Singapore side of the Bridge, which is straight ,as straight as the law of the land and the system of Singapore.

It was bulldozed and the pillings was still on the seabeds of Johore, probably a spawning ground for mussels and other sticky molusc.The new immigrations booths of Malaysia, needs to be traverse over an equally crooked road further into the Johore side.

Whichever way, once you cross the portal of Singapore, be prepared to face the crooked way of the north. Think crooked to survive the crooked way or you will be overhelmed.

JOHOR BARU: Businessmen and the public here are optimistic that the crooked bridge project across the Straits of Johor will be revived under the leadership of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

They believe the project would spur development within the city, which has been adversely affected since the opening of the new Sultan Iskandar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) Complex.

South Johor SME Association president Teh Kee Sin said the bridge should be completed as there were too many turns leading to the present complex using the temporary access road from the old CIQ at the Causeway.

Johor Baru Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Datuk Soh Poh Sheng was confident that businesses in the city would boom if the bridge project was revived.

"The bridge will be a landmark for Johor Baru to attract more tourists to the city.

"I will not be surprised if our new prime minister revives the project," he said.

Johor Indian Business Association president P. Sivakumar said if the Government wanted to revive the project, it was important for a detailed study to be carried out as a lot of money had been spent on paying compensation.

"I hope the Government will do all the necessary studies before starting the project as we do not want it to end up as a casualty of another flip-flop policy," he said.

Sivakumar said the bridge would ease the burden of those travelling daily as it would be shorter and pedestrians would, eventually, be able to walk across the Causeway on pedestrian lanes.

He believed Singapore and Malaysia would see the logic and mutual benefits to be gained from having the new bridge.

Taxi driver Azni Shukor, 46, said the new CIQ had long winding roads because it was actually designed to go with the bridge, suggesting a road to direct traffic into the city.

"If the bridge was built, the Government would not have to consider opening the old CIQ for pedestrians," he added.

Stall operator Sivagami Kandasamy, 48, agreed with Azni, insisting that business had slowed down since the opening of the new CIQ in December last year.

Sivagami expects the new bridge to boost business and increase her income. --The Star/Asia News Network

Rojak man razed by poisoning 2 dead,150 sickened ,160 rats held as suspects.

UPSET: Mr Allaudin, owner of Rojak Geylang Serai.
Rojak Food Poisoning

STUNNED: He couldn’t believe that more than a hundred people fell ill after eating his rojak
SCARED: He started throwing food away because he was scared
SORRY: I didn’t go to funeral, but I want to apologise to victim’s family

Singapore, April 9, 2009 - He was at his stall with his two sons, preparing food for the day’s business, last Saturday.

Two men then went up to Mr Sheik Allaudin, the owner of Rojak Geylang Serai, and shouted at him.

Mr Allaudin, 69, sitting outside his four-room Eunos flat last night, said: “They looked very angry and were pointing their fingers at me.

"They shouted at me in Malay, ‘It’s all because of you that my family is now in hospital." It was about 7am and he said that was his first inkling that something was wrong.

He said: “I was shocked and got scared as I didn’t know what had happened.”

Complained
He was preparing the food and cooking the gravy for his Indian rojak at that time.

He panicked and carried the pot to the rubbish bin and began to empty its contents into it.

In his first media interview since the food poisoning outbreak at the temporary Geylang Serai market, he said: “I did that because I was scared.

“Customers had complained so there must be something wrong with my food.”

Just as he was throwing the food away, eight officers from the National Environment Agency (NEA) arrived at the stall and asked him why he was doing that.

He replied that two customers had complained to him earlier.

He said: “That was when they told me that more than a hundred people had fallen ill after eating my rojak.

“I was stunned. I could not believe it.”

So far, 137 cases of food poisoning have been reported to the Ministry of Health (MOH).

Thirty-seven people were hospitalised while the rest were given outpatient treatment at hospitals and clinics.

The victims fell ill between last Thursday and Saturday.

One woman, Madam Aminah Samijo, 57, a canteen assistant, fell into a coma and died on Monday. She was buried yesterday.

Another woman, Madam Noraini Kasim, 59, remains in a coma in the intensive care unit at Alexandra Hospital.

MOH said that the last time a person died of food poisoning was in 2007, due to salmonella enteritidis, a common food-borne pathogen.

Mr Allaudin said he had opened his rojak stall 27 years ago.

His two sons help him at the stall and they prepare the food themselves every day. They employ a worker to help serve the customers.

He said that the past few days have been a blur. He could not sleep well and was very worried.

“I found out from the newspapers that a regular customer of mine had died after eating my rojak,” he said, tears welling up.

“A life has been lost. My licence may be revoked and I may be charged.

“But I’m willing to face the consequences.”

He added that he had not visited Madam Aminah’s family as they may not be ready to face him.

Madam Aminah, 57, and her husband, Mr Omar Ali, 56, ate at his stall last Friday afternoon.

Said Mr Allaudin: “I know her funeral is today (Tuesday) but I didn’t go. The family won’t understand how I feel now. But I want to apologise to them.

“I really don’t know how this could have happened.”

Lost and worried
He said that he always throws away all the leftovers at the end of the day.

He and his sons prepare the food at 4am every business day and close the stall on Mondays.

He added: “I didn’t offend anyone recently. And I don’t think it’s a case of sabotage.”

After the incident, he has been told by the authorities to close his stall for the time being.

He said that his daily earnings is about $1,500.

But he still went down to the market on Monday and yesterday because he was worried.

He said: “I sat there and stared into space. I’m not avoiding anyone or the problem.”

Stallholders at the temporary market appeared to be protective of each another.

Some of them had denied seeing Mr Allaudin when The New Paper was at the market on Monday.

But yesterday, one of them, Madam Lia, 42, admitted that they had lied.

“He was here on Monday, same time as you, but you didn’t know. All the other reporters also didn’t know,” she said.

She added that Mr Allaudin chatted with stallholders for a while when he arrived around lunchtime.
“He said he doesn’t know how it (the food poisoning) happened.

“He was still smiling when he spoke to us. He’s usually smiling whenever we see him, but we really don’t know how he’s feeling inside.”

Mr Allaudin lives with his wife, two sons, a daughter-in-law and two grandchildren in his Eunos flat.

Shortly after the interview, he said that he had been contacted by the police and that he was going to Bedok Police Division to give his statement.

He said that he, his sons and his worker had already gone for screening for food-borne pathogens at the Communicable Disease Centre, as advised by MOH.

But he does not know the results.

“It’s purely an accident. I hope my customers will get well soon,” he said.