Bush Fire Again

Early signs that haze will soon be the talking point.  Few nights ago while transiting thru’ Lumut, we can already smell the burnings.  The one which is near to Kg Lumut’s U turn is still hardly being contained since last week.

Child Labour

If you think that we deserve better job than what we are getting right now .. then think again …

It is all hard work but only lil’ money and yet we have the audacity to demand easy job but big pay …

Image 2 : Jainal works in silver cooking pot factory. He is 11 years old. He has been working in this factory for three years. His work starts at 9 a.m. and ends at 6 p.m. For his work he gets 700 taka (10 USD) for a month. His parents are so poor that they can not afford to send him to school. According to the factory owner, the parents do not care for their children; they send their kids to work for money and allegedly don’t feel sorry for these small kids. Dhaka 2008

Image 3 : A young laborer making metal components at a factory. Dhaka. Bangladesh

Image 4 : 13-year-old Liyakot Ali works in a silver cooking pot factory in Old Dhaka. The children work 10 hour days in hazardous conditions, for a weekly wage of 200 taka (3 USD). Dhaka. Bangladesh. June 2008

Image 5 : A child on the side of the road attempts to sell roses to passing commuters in cars and buses. Dhaka.

Image 6 : 7-year-old Jasmine collects rubbish from a steaming rubbish heap on a cold winter morning. She earns money to support her family by scavenging for items on the Kajla rubbish dump. It is one of three landfill sites in a city of 12 million people. Around 5,000 tons of garbage are dumped here each day and more than 1,000 people work among the rubbish, sorting through the waste and collecting items to sell to retailers for recycling.

Image 7 : Children at a brick factory in Fatullah. For each 1,000 bricks they carry, they earn the equivalent of 0.9 USD.

Image 8 : A young girl working in a brick crushing factory in Dhaka.

Image 9 : Children at a brick factory in Fatullah. For each 1,000 bricks they carry, they earn the equivalent of 0.9 USD.

Image 10 : Ten-year-old Shaifur working in a door lock factory in Old Dhaka. Unlike his colleague, Shaifur works without a mask.

Image 11 : Eight-year-old Munna works in a rickshaw factory. He earns about 500 taka (7 USD) amonth, working 10 hours a day. When the production often stops due to lack of electricity, he has time to play. Dhaka 2007

Image 12 : Children are compelled to work for long working hours with inadequate or no rest period.  Moreover, they are paid with minimum wages and enjoy no job security. Many people prefer to employ young boys to maximize services for those minimum wages. Dhaka 2006.

Image 13 : Thirteen-year-old Islam works in a silver cooking pot factory. He has been working at the factory for the last two years, in hazardous conditions, where it is common practice for the factory owners to take on children as unpaid apprentices, only providing them with two meals a day.

Image 14 : 17.5percent of children in the aged 5?5 are engaged in economic activities. Many of these children are engaged in various hazardous occupations in manufacturing factories. Dhaka 2006.

Image 15 : Eight-year-old Razu works in a rickshaw factory. He earns about 500 taka (7 USD) a month, working 10 hours a day. When the production often stops due to lack of electricity, he has time to play.

 

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MD Fun Run 2009

As usual it is a record turn out again this year with more than 3,000 Brunei Shell staff plus contractors have registered and thronging the BSRC’s field as early as 6.30 am in the morning. Weather is at least less merciless with spots of light drizzles every now and then but it is the most ideal condition which we could not ask for more. Honestly my running is terrible and there is certainly no substitute for consistency apart from from regular trainings which I could not afford to make time for it at the moment. But bottom line is sweating out for good and it is a good reminder to reflect own fitness and besides it is a good opportunity to mingle with old friends as well that we hardly seen in person due to work commitments. When it wraps up then it is back to the usual dreaded monday blues but I will just go slow and steady today regardless but I think I will throw in a short nap during lunch time ….

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Real Easy Life This Week

I am glad that this week is less stressful.  I have less meetings to attend and some cancelled ones do help to ease me a lil’ bit.  The only exciting thing that happened was probably yesterday when our team won the monthly healthy lifestyle program mixed netball tourney.  As a matter of fact we did not even practised,  some has not played for quite sometime but we were credited with good and seasoned players.  Class is permanent and form is temporary  .. some kind of borrowed phrase .. hehe.  One day to go and I am all set for another weekend cycle so I want to sustain the good mood as it is at the moment.

I learnt that the Jalan Tengah, Seria is opened today and that will be a big relief knowing that we have been deprived of a fluid traffics for more than 9 months and the new bridge is not at the very least a dramatic construction scale by any imagination.  But it cost us dearly for months and I feel this is down to poor planning and poor community sensing.  But what the heck .. it is a done thing now .. probably moving on is the right thing to do .

Another Accident … Oh Not Again

Initially I thought the slow down @ Sg Paku was due to another bush fire but no.. no  .. I was wrong.  It turned out to be an overturned car going turtle.  Not sure how it ended up that way but one thing for sure when such thing happens then it is a sure thing that daily commuters like us will be home late again.  We hate it outright and it would be better if we have the dual carriageway by now.  I just hope the authority will speed up the construction of the highway connecting Telisai to Lumut pretty soon.