“Hi everyone. My name is Yuan Wu. And I am have thalassemia.”
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Sounds like I’ve got cancer and is appearing before the TV to appeal for donations, no?
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Nope, I don’t have cancer or anything like that… yet (scary to think that everyone has a chance to get cancer). I have thalassemia. I look normal, don’t I. (Eh, i’m still normal, OK!)
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What the h*ll is thalassemia, you say. Thalassemia a a genetic disorder that is very common in Chinese. It is estimated that 1/20 Malaysians have some sort of thalassemia trait. It is also called Cooley’s anemia This statistic means you definitely know someone with thalassemia trait, or you have it. So don’t tell me you don’t know, don’t care, don’t give a damn. You don’t want to “sang1 chai2 mo1 see2 fatt4″.
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Lets start by talking about haemoglobin, the stuff that carries oxygen in our red blood cells. Haemoglobin is made of 4 parts — 2 alpha and 2 beta. We have 4 locations in our genes that make the alpha and 2 locations that make beta.
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The problem arises when you have one or more of these faulty genes at those locations. So, of you have a faulty alpha gene, you have alpha thalassemia. And likewise for beta.
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And there are many severity of thalassemia. If one of the alpha locations or part of one beta locations in your gene is kaput punya, then you only have thalassemia trait. You simply look normal. You are a carrier. You may and may not pass the gene to your children. If you have a 2 or more faulty genes, that you would not have live to my age to read this blog.
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You cannot donate blood because your blood is not complete.
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Therefore, by using the power of blog… I hereby urge everyone who reads this blog: cepat-cepat go to a clinic or lab and have a thorough blood check. Ask the fella to check for blood disorder too e.g thalassemia. If you have a boy-boy or girl-girl, take them along to the clinic. If both of you have thalassemia trait, you may create a child that will depend on blood transfusion for all his life. Or the baby may not live to remember you. To quote Puah Chu Kang, don’t pray-pray. This is as bad as “sang1 chai2 mo1 see2 fatt4″.
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Also, do visit this site for more info cooleysanemia.org. Or you can leave me a message so I can’t send you a few documents about thalassemia.
Yours Sincerely,
the THalassmia carrier.
Our government had f*ckin’ (can’t type the whole word out, stupid UKM server will ban my blog) cheated us. You know lah, Malaysians are a bunch of gullible s*ckers that will take all kind of abuse the government throw at us.
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Our beloved Pak Lah promised transparency in our gahmen. WTF!! ‘Til now, I still ain’t seein’ nothing transparent about our gahmen. Bugger! Where’s the freakin’ transparency when the gahmen suddenly increased the fuel price in the middle of the night?! They should have announced about the fuel hike at least a month, AT LEAST A MONTH before they actually raise the fuel price. Not making decisions behind the closed doors in some top secret gahmen buildings in Putrajaya, then announcing the fuel hike is to be in effect in 2 hours time at night.
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Where in the h*ll is the logic in that?! What? You don’t want to scare the people?! You need to allow people to adjust their lives in advance for the fuel hike. To be prepared for it. You think you are running a circus show ah?? Trying to surprise us with stupid antics.
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We are not like you, Pak Lah, and the rest of your ‘mah chai’. We don’t have drivers in black Perdanas chaffeuring us around with petrol being paid by the tax payers money. And we don’t have a parade of police outriders who wear sunglasses and shove every bloody vehicle out of the way for you and your mah chai.
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We have to endure the traffic jam. The tolls. The hike in fuel. You don’t. You just know how to talk cock and tell us not to question how the gahmen is going to spend the RM4.4b you saved. What in the name of god do you mean not to question it?! It’s our freakin’ money! All 4.4 billion of it. Of course we want to know how the h*ll the money is being spent!
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Alright, that’s the first problem. Now the other problem. No freakin’ youth cares about what the gahmen is doing with the money. All they care is that their pockets are thinner now and they can’t buy that Nike shoes they want. I tried to talk to some friends about my opinions in what the gahmen should’ve done, what it should be doing with the ‘extra’ 4.4b. I was hoping for an opinion, a voice, a discussion. All they could say is to lament about the price hike and say, "Aiyah, Malaysia mah. Always liddat one lah." Or they simply keep quiet.
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Come on. You’ve got to have an opinion, right? Something to say, perhaps?
This our country, man. Takkan you are so indifferent, so apathetic to what’s happening here? Takkan you only thing you care about is trying to save a few buck by queuing up in the middle of the night in a petrol station?
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We are university students, man. We should be having discussion about what’s happening in our country. Even casual discussions in mamak stall is fine. To turn a blind eye and pretend that everything will work out fine is ignorance. You think you are the three monkeys ahh? –see no evil, hear no evil, talk no evil??
Way to go man, our university students!
Good luck to our country for having intelligent youths that chooses to be blind and deaf.
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Yours Sincerely,
the DRiver (with thinner wallet now).
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