With the dengue cases on the rise in Malaysia, you better learn about the dengue fever symptoms and more importantly how to protect yourself against aedes mosquitoes.

The first time I got dengue fever, my doctor gave me some antibiotics as he thought I got a flu… (stupid idiot as dengue is a virus and antibiotics is a treatment only for bacteria… if he can’t see the difference, then why is he a GP in the first place?).

A few days later the symptoms were clear: red rashes everywhere, a terrible headache and other flu like symptoms. No more appetite, not even a nasi lemak made me willing to eat…

Further on I became really without any strength to do anything. All I could think of was : go to bed and hope when you wake up it’s over… Luckily I went to another doctor who recognised my rashes and sent me to hospital on the spot.

The second time however I got dengue fever, the symptoms were not too clear. Again the terrible headache but the rashes only came after about a week.

The first day I saw the rashes, I went to hospital immediately and my blood platelet count was 25 only: meaning I was lucky to spot the dengue fever symptoms before I would have been bleeding to death the next day.

Dengue cases worldwide

Dengue cases worldwide appear where the transmission of dengue fever: aedes mosquito exists.

As you notice: it’s a tropical problem (red areas on the map show dengue epidemic areas, pink areas on the map are infested with Aedes mosquito’s but don’t have too many dengue fever cases reported).

Prevention of dengue

The best protection against any mosquito is a mosquito net and mosquito repellant. Read more tips and techniques on how to protect yourself against aedes mosquitoes.

Treatments for dengue fever

As you notice, after 20 years in the tropics I survived 2 dengue fevers. Treatments are "easy" as there is no cure.

The disease kind of kills your appetite and you get dehydrated in a degree you need a drip to keep enough liquid getting into your body.

Then your blood will be monitored each day as dengue will make your blood thinner or get your blood platelets down. As such when your platelet count becomes too low, you will be given extra blood-platelets through a drip. You have to cross fingers that you are in a hospital where the quality of the blood-serums is not tampered with…

Summarized: dengue fever symptoms feel as if you have the worst flu ever . If you live in the tropics, go and see your doctor and if you are loosing appetite and feel lethargic, make sure you ask your doctor if these are dengue fever symptoms.

Technorati Tags aedes mosquito, aedes mosquitoes, dengue cases, Dengue fever, dengue fever symptoms, mosquitoes

Syed Hamid introduces bulk flip flops in Malaysia. These bulk flip flops are entirely man made by through Malaysians who are handpicked under something called the ISA.

Where can I find bridal flip flops?

Taiping is the holy grail for bridal flip flops.

The ISA course will teach you in 60 days how to make the best flip flops in bulk.

But very good students don’t have to endure the whole 60 days: they can get straight away promoted by Syed Hamid to get an exclusive 2 year ISA flip flops contract based in the town that’s famous for all Malaysian bulk flip flops: Taiping.

How hard is the bulk flip flops course?

It’s not easy to succeed in the bulk flip flops course. And it seems men are better in making flip flops than woman. Just recently 3 new students were enrolled in the new course and were tested to produce their first pair of yellow box flip flops.

Yellow box flip flops : more difficult than you think…

Of the 3 new students, 1 couldn’t even bare to finish 24 hours. She is now back at her old job reporting for the Chinese newspaper, and she says she is very happy with it.

The second student, a more mature woman lasted a few days longer in the ISA course. But after a few days it was clear she had done nothing, so she got kicked out without further reason given.

There is only 1 student still standing: Raja Petra: the voice of Malaysia. We all know raja Petra very well. He is the kind of person when he sets his mind on something, he just doesn’t let go and will make sure he succeeds.

Flip flop drink coasters

What doesn’t feel better than looking at flip flop drink coasters to remind you on your last holiday in Malaysia?

Isn’t it great to be able to visit a country were all races live in perfect harmony without having to look further what’s happening underneath?

Now don’t start pointing your finger here, lots of "older" democracies have done similar things than what is happening now in Malaysia: a majority party sooner or later will loose its majority. And this change will make bursts and boozes that aren’t something to be proud of later on.

Just compare to US where president Kennedy got shot, Martin Luther King got shot and even President Reagan took a bullet, it’s all clear that politics is not something for the faint hearted… Nothing to be proud of either…

Why is Syed Hamid the king of bulk flip flops?

Just follow Syed Hamid’s ISA flip flops history from the last few days:

Syed Hamid claims that it is not his decision to issue the ISA but the government.

… Now Syed Hamid being Home Minister, makes him part of the government, isn’t it?

3 days later a flip flop:

Syed Hamid says that the arrest and release of Teresa Kok is the entire work of the police. They do not have to ask me or inform me of their decision…

3 days later, his biggest flip flop:

Not convinced yet that Syed Hamid is the king of all bulk flip flops? Then read his latest action, because actions speak louder than words :

Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar confirmed that he had signed the detention order to jail Raja Petra under the Internal Security Act for two years.

So if you want to work under the king of bulk flip flops for 2 straight years in a row, then start blogging deep elaborated blogposts that concern all Malaysians.

Make sure you show 1 clear logic and don’t flip flop, because the king of bulk flip flops wants to remain king as long as possible no matter what.

Technorati Tags bulk flip flops, flip flop, ISA, raja petra, syed hamid

I heard PM Abdullah Badawi in the news saying that he will take measures in favour of all Malaysians…

Well, if you want to please all Malaysians in the Malaysian political landscape of today, you need to do know that :

• a bit more than 50% of the population is OK with what you are doing and
   
• a bit less than 50% of the population is NOT OK with what you are doing.

The only way in a situation like this to make sure everybody is heard is starting a dialogue. Something that didn’t need to be done before because hey, more than 90% approved Abdullah Badawi when he came in office!

Now with each person out of 2 unhappy, you need to talk to the other one. I mean, how is a tango going to look like when both of the dancers wants to do things their way? Impossible isn’t it?

Technorati Tags abdullah badawi, Anwar Ibrahim