help! my baby is laughing..

heard this from a friend of mine, who saw a patient, a 1+ yr old malay baby, brought to the hospital for a burn injury to the face.

history taken: parents were worried that their child may have been "possessed" by some spirits. reason?

the kid likes to laugh and babbles by himself, even when there was no one around (lemme remind you again, the kid is just past 1 year old, not even speaking very much yet at all, so if you ask me... he's perfectly normal!!).

so what do the parents do?

they brought the kid to a bomoh (of course!). and the bomoh did the usual..mutters a few words of mantera.. burn some kemenyan.. carry the burning kemenyan in its little claypot container thingy over the kid's head and "smokes" him (or the spirits out-God knows), and .. whoops! the container tilted..and whoops! all the burning kemenyan fell onto the poor kid's face!!

kid cries, of course (he obviously wont be laughing for quite awhile..at least not until he's in good spirits again). according to my friend, good thing the eyes were not affected, or he could've been blind!

sheesh..

scary-part deux

thank the Lord. alin's sister is back with the family! i'm so happy and relieved for alin and her family.

now that i know she's safe, i thought i'll just share here what alin told me she had to go through in search of her sister.

after they've made the police report, her family tried to contact her sister on her cell, as she later did send an sms to her mom, telling her she's with a friend or sth like that. when they tried again, her cell was off. so they asked if maxis could help locate where she was based on the sms. maxis wouldnt release the info without a letter or order from the police. so they went back to the police to ask for the letter. guess what the police told alin?

"oh saya cuti hari ni, so esok sajalah ambik surat tu!"

wtf?

alin of course, i can imagine, got angry la.. the more you delay the process, the further away her sister would be, and more difficult for them to trace!

so she went back and wrote a formal email of complaint to the PDRM website.

her dad in the meantime, got a direct number to the super-chief of police, and complained directly.

and barulah the sergeant got on his ass to issue the order and trace the number from maxis. and they found out that her sister could be in penang already! if they had waited the next day..tah2 dah across the border!

i mean, cuti tu cutilah, but takkan tak ada orang ganti?

and it's not a sempoi case like my friend got her cat stuck in a tree, it's her young sister freakin' missin'!

sheessh..

scary!

http://www.bharian.com.my/bharian/articles/Remajahilangkandirimahucarikebebasan_ketenangan/Article

my fren alin's sister went missing 3 days ago. as i'm posting this i'm not sure if she's back yet, coz last i talked to alin just this evening, apparently her sister had contacted the family and was supposed to be sent home by her so-called friend tonight. i drove past her house just now, but there were already lots of cars parked in front, including the police, i assume she is back, alin havent replied my text yet. God, i hope she's back, safe and sound.