Discrimination

A young mother, age 24 was struggling to deliver her forth child. She was in labor pain for almost 3 days but still unable to deliver the baby.

As the last resort, the midwife, decided to sit on the mom's tummy to force the baby to come out, which caused the mom's uterus ruptured and the baby died inside the womb.

The mom was in deep pain and she need to go to the hospital which was 75 miles from her home. By motorcycle.

Imagine this,

She was in pain. Her uterus has exploded. The baby inside is dead and she need to take a bike ride on bumpy road for 75 miles just to go to the hospital.

She arrived at a small empty hospital. With lack of facilities and left untreated for two days. She was in total pain and getting weaker and weaker each day and lost a lot of blood at the same time.

Stop.

Then I changed the channel. Because this is too extreme for me, I cant take it anymore.

This is a real story. Happened in a very remote area in Cameroon. I watched it in Oprah tonight and yes, women is still discriminated in most ways in some countries. They don't have the right for education, they just been forced to get married, then get pregnant with lack of health facilities and in most cases they died during delivery. They're not been respected in the way they should just because they're women which I think its too ridiculous. Because of the culture, I guess, they didn't even know their right because they've used to it and for them, being a woman they only live to carry all the burden.

I dont know what to say, I guess I should be lucky being a woman in my own country.

Women all over the world should be treated in equal way with men.

Kad Real Rewards Pun Aku Tak Tau Duduk Celah Mana

Dulu sekali dengan kad mesra Petronas kan. Lepas tu, Petronas tak mau share dengan RR lagi. Dia mahu kad dia sorang saja.

Hari ni, dapat ucapan Happy Deepavali dari RR. Terima kasih, time hari raya takde pulak ko bagi ucapan selamat hari raya. Time deepavali laju je ko bagi ucapan.

Dia hantar kat gmail. Selalu gmail ni bos je rajin hantar email ke sini. Maklumlah, bos dengan staff duk bersepah-sepah. Asyiklah gtalk saja. Nasib baik bos ku sempoi.

Mentang-mentang la kadang-kadang orang panggil aku dee, rajin pulak ko bagi ucapan deepavali ni. Kecik hati ah gini!

Lagilagilagilagila...

OK. Ini saya tak tahu nak kategorikan sebagai apa. Mungkin kelakar, kesian pun ada, menakutkan pun ada juga.

Hal ini sudah 2 minggu lepas. Saya tengah sibuk buat kerja. Jarang sangat saya sibuk, kalau sibuk tu memang bukan main-main la. Tiba-tiba ada bunyi bell ringing. Misya yang turun. Katanya ada orang mahu datang interview. Memanglah kami sedang mencari Graphic Designer baru, tapi yang musykilnya, rasanya hari itu tak ada sebarang appointment untuk interview. Kebetulan dia sudah datang, they let him in.

Kak Ida masa itu tengah sibuk, ada supplier datang and need to settle things. So, she pass the buck to me. Suruh saya interview. I was like "huh?" dan saya ajak Nurul join sekali. I never bother to see how he looks like before entering my room. Adalah dia lalu depan bilik saya untuk ke tandas, tapi since I was busy doing my work, I dont even think to look at him.

Bila Nurul masuk bilik saya, she kept saying

"Kak, Nurul rasa dia ni somethinglah.."

Saya tak berapa paham. Apa yang somethingnya. Until he came into my room and we asked her few standard questions.

Him: Sekarang tak bekerja, baru kena buang kerja selepas 12 hari.

Saya: *selamba mamat ni mengaku kena buang kerja* kenapa awak kena buang kerja

Him: Sebab saya pergi ke istana negara berjumpa dengan Sultan Mizan bla bla bla..

Saya: *mengarut apa ni* sultan Mizan jumpa awak? Dia ada bagi surat ke suruh datang jumpa dia? *saya tanya sebab dulu dia pernah kerja buat batik, who knows..masih bersangka baik*

Him: Tak tahulah *he couldnt answer and he started to talk to something else*

Kami dah pandang sesama sendiri, dia dah start bercakap dengan benda lain, pandang ke atas dengan tangan tergawang-gawang, mumbling to himself. Mamat ni berzikir ke apa ni?

When we asked about her portfolio, he showed us i-dont-know-what-supermarket flyers. I asked wheres your own design, dia kata, dia boleh buat macam tu lebih kurang. Saya dah buat muka pelik time ni.

The best part was, while I was talking him, he stopped me and he started to talk to that thing. Boleh pulak ko suruh aku berhenti bercakap. Kecik hati betul. Lepas habis dia bercakap dengan that thing, dengan selambanya dia berkata:

"Sorrylah, saya ni gila sikit.."

*PENGSAN..*

Kami pun apalagi, cepat-cepat hulurkan his so called "portfolio" dan tamatkan sesi "interview" tu. Keluar saja dia dari ofis, kami ketawa guling-guling. Semua buat andaian sendiri. Entahlah, saya rasa dia sakit. Sebab sebelum ni elok pulak dia kerja dekat tempat batik tu 2 tahun (kalau dia tak tipulah) dan company yang dia kerja 12 hari tu pun, macamana boleh ambil dia kerja kalau tahu dia gila.

Mujurlah dia buat gila depan kami masa interview. Kalau dah ambil bekerja baru tau dia gila, mau kami pun jadi gila sekali.

Ini saya tak tahu nak kategorikan sebagai apa. Mungkin kelakar, kesian pun ada, menakutkan pun ada juga.

Haha. Macam-macam hal!