Fiksi Si Miskin Di Alam Gelap Kutub Barat (Sebuah Cerpen Kontot)

Kisah ini cerita si miskin yang mencari sebuah teori baru sebagai landas hidupnya. Dunia si miskin adalah gelandangan, mencicip sisa sarap dan bergelumang dengan segala segi penyakit kronik. Kebiasaan dengan kelaparan membentuk diri si miskin yang keting dan kurang segala segi gizi vitamin. Matlamat hidup si miskin adalah mencari hipotesis bagi merangka teori baru untuk kelangsungan hidup. Bagi si miskin antara kaedah yang dipraktikkan adalah tidur selepas kenyang agar dapat bermimpi di alam yang berbeza iaitu alam gelap dan hitam. Ini juga filosofi baru yang boleh digunakan pakai, tidak diharap hidup yang sofistikated  serba mewah, cukup sekadar mimpi tentang gelap hitam yang sering mencetera hikayat yang indah’.

Miskin kedana adalah bahagia bagi  si miskin di bumi yang bersifat tidak orasinil.  Kaya raya adalah resah yang panjang bagi planet bumi kutub barat yang bersifat fana. Maka apa bezanya kedua darjat  senang dan susah. Mana yang wajar dipilih. Si Miskin bukan tidak mahu kerah keringat lagi kerana hidup lampaunya penah bergelumang dengan untung berbilion dollar. Dulu semasa memiliki segala kemewahan, si miskin seorang yang saintifik. Padanya segala-galanya perlu penerangan metamatik yang menyokong. Segala yang berlaku ada benih will dalam diri seorang bernama makhluk. Tindakan daripada makhluk menentukan takdir kehidupan. Tindakan adalah bersumber daripada keputusan diri. Keputusan diri itu sendiri dicanai oleh ilmu dan pengalaman seorang makhluk.  Ini kepercayaan si miskin antara dulu dan sekarang dalam mencari teori landasan baru hidup di bumi kutub barat.

Ini kisah hidup si miskin sebelum gelandangan. Bisnis  digital yang menerobos kepandaian buatan ranap punah kerana turnover tinggi pekerja yang terdiri daripada data-data saintis. Gaji mereka tidak mampu dibayar kesan pandemic sesak nafas yang melanda metropolitan bumi di kutub barat.  Pandemik sesak nafas itu umpama batu besar meranap empayer bisnes si miskin yang akhir-akhir itu semakin renta dan uzur. Dunia digital perlukan ilmu analitik bagi memanipulasi big data. Maka jika big data digunakan sebagai analitik untuk eksploitasi kepandaian tidak mempunyai data base Artificial Intelligent , maka hanya menunggu saat ranap punah. Ibarat gunung berapi yang tanpa mampu menahan gejolak lahar yang diciptanya sendiri. Inilah analogi si miskin tentang sejarah hitam bisnes digitalnya. Menurut si miskin bisnes punyai jangka hayatnya sendiri, maka polisi yang terbaik  adalah untuk melakukan exit sebelum keadaan tidak mampu terkawal. Kini si miskin memilih gelandangan di tengah metropolitan Kutub Barat sebagai ruang kehidupan barunya.

Maka mengapa harus gelandangan dipilih sebaga jalan baru mencari teori baru. Bagaimana dengan landas falsafah bahawa takdir hidup  terletak pada tangannya sediri, bukankah kaya dan mewah itu menjadi kehidupan lebih maju dan sihat. Bukankah gelandangan  melahirkan segala segi penyakit seperti sopak dan kudis . Lebih kronik lagi  gejala gila babi  bila otak telah dipenuhi toksik urea. Fizikal makhluk difungsi oleh 74 organ yang membuat  terus bernafas. Si miskin keras berteoritas, ‘Hidup adalah proses kemusnahan fizikal , maka bila fizikal rosak, roh juga terlibat, akal pun turut terkesan’.

Si miskin flashback ketika empayer kaya raya bisnis digitalnya kian merudum ,  beliau telah menghidap penyakit malfungsi organ fizikal yang dikenali Cacat Kronik Dungu atau CKD. Kesan penyakit ini menyebakan si miskin sesak nafas dan bengkak tubuh badan dan jika lebih kronik hilang daya ingatan yang menjurus kepada gila babi. Gila babi adalah indikasi apabila toksin telah telah mencapai tahap 5 penyakit CKD.

Bila hilang ingatan disebabkan gila babi, menurut si miskin kita sudah menjadi  makhluk yang tidak dinlai prestasinya, tidak perlu ada KPI yang perlu dicapai untuk mendapat sebarang anugerah. Mungkin juga status gila babi buat seorang  makhluk  lebih bahagia untuk meneruskan hidup di gelandangan bumi Kutub Barat.

Peringkat awal penyakitnya, si miskin melalui proses kemurungan kronik bila diagnosis CKD hasil daripada ujian darah merah. Hospital robotik telah mengesahkan kepada si miskin bahawa beliau telah menghadapi CKD tahap 4 dan pada tahap ini adalah irreversible. Mana mungkin bila toksik memuncak di ruang cerebrum  hanya menunggu gejala gila babi. Kemudiannya  ia akan merebak ke  jantung dan mengakibat sesak nafas. Berulangkali Doktor robotik menjelaskan dengan mudah dan jelas. Si miskin yang diam mengangguk.

Di saat selepas itu, kehidupan si miskin telah beralih landasan. Siang hari dirasakan gelap gelita dan malam adalah resah  bila nafasnya sering terputus-putus , terjaga terkial mencari corong oksigen bantuan. Si miskin merasakan seperti dilahirkan kali kedua  dalam kutub yang berbeza dari dulunya. Jauh berbeza sekali kerana dunia baru ini matahari akan terbit  di kutub barat. Di kutub ini si miskin merasakan ilmu epistimologi digitalnya di peringkat PHD kurang membantu untuk mencari jalan  penyelesaian. Kepakaran teknikal analitik gagal memberi jawapan kukuh tentang gejala yang sedang dialami. Pernah sekali si miskin cuba mencipta vaksin menggunakan kaedah pensampelan beberapa jenis gizi   namun pangkalan data AI  menghasilkan keputusan data yang keliru. Capaian Big Data beliau  amat mengecewakan dan mengalami disrupsi teknologi . Silap nya dahulu,  bila si miskin memulakan  keusahawanan digital menggunakan kaedah  alam maya yang penuh bakteria dan virus-virus minda tidak berprinsip.

Pada satu malam yang menyentakkan si miskin. Ia berlaku semasa terlantar di hospital robotik di kutub barat tengah. Setelah agak lama berada di katil wad CKD disebabkan gejala semakin mengkronik, si miskin mengalami gejala tekanan darah ultra rendah. Mesin robotik BP mencatat sistolic 20 dan diastolic 10 . Pakar perubatan robotik  telah memasukkan cecair noredenanelin kuasa tinggi  untuk si miskin menghela nafas yang stabil . Namun kesan sampingan cecair tersebut memberi kesan gila babi yang lebih cepat dan ketara kepada beliau. Nafas si miskin semakin resah, suhu badan meledak tahap gunung berapi. Hingga ke saat itu , si miskin hampir sepurnama tidak dapat melelapkan mata dan keseimbangan badan dan minda semakin bercelaru. Tahap antibodi  mencatat zero membuat si miskin  mula meracau sendirian.  Terkumat kamit lidah si miskin merintih, pegangan landasan saintifik beliau selama ini menemui jalan buntu  untuk menenangkan akalnya.

Dan pada satu malam yang aneh, di katil wad robotik, si miskin cuba memajamkan mata sekejab mungkin, dan bertarung untuk meghela nafas sepanjang mungkin. Si miskin cuba menangkap zarah-zarah udara agar otaknya dapat berfungsi dengan waras. Di dalam gelap terkatupnya mata  , si miskin  dihalusinasi sebuah cerita yang samar dalam ruang pudar gelap. Dia cuba memahami maksudnya namun gagal. Matanya masih ketat dan rapat tertutup, dan enggan membukanya selagi tidak memahami apa yang dialami itu. Si miskin bertekad, selagi mampu bernafas biarlah dunianya hanya sebuah warna hitam. Dia bahagia dengan kesamaran ini  daripada warna-warni dunia celik yang tidak memberi sebarang jawapan. Di ruang samar gelap ini si miskin meraskan dia tidak perlu mencari penjelasan saintifik untuk kekal hidup di kutub barat. Biarlah hanya perlu fikirkan sudut gelap gelita ini , tidak perlu melaksanakan proses pengasingan big data saintifik. Bagi si miskin biarlah semua terkumpul dalam satu kosmos  dan menjadi makna yang bakal terbongkar kelak.

Semakin dalam hela nafas si miskin dan semakin jelas tentang segaris cahaya berjaya diasingkan daripada kosmos yang gelap itu. Dan dengan tiba-tiba si miskin terbangun dari katil , dengan nafas yang tercunggap -cunggup. Si miskin teriak sekuat-kuatnya , ‘ aku dah jumpe, aku faham dah semuanya ! ‘ sambil memeluk erat doktor robotik yang berada di sebelah katilnya.

Kini si miskin telah kembali ke ruang gelandangan, menghitung toksin urea yang bakal memenuhi ruang tubuhnya.  Doktor robotik memaklumkan si miskin masih diberi peluang untuk hidup dan dibenarkan discaj dari wad. Doktor robotik berpesan, ‘ apa yang anda penuhi dalam minda menentukan paras morbiditi diri kamu, jika banyak virus warna warni cuba kau proses dalam minda, maka penyakit CKD kamu akan semakin membarah.

Sehingga kini , si miskin masih memikirkan tentang malam di wad robotik tempoh hari. Si  miskin berkata pada dirinya sendiri, ‘Dalam kegelapan itu,  yang cuma aku temui  hanyalah  titik-titik cahaya. Ini tidak mungkin aku temui jika dalam terang benderangnya warna warni.’

Mulai dari itu, si miskin mula melakar teori digital baru, sambil  memecat semua saintis-saintis data semasa di alam warna-warni.  Kini si miskin mula melantik artis-artis data  sebagai pendokong kuat untuk bersama-samanya membina empayer baru bisnes  di alam gelap gelandangan.

How Branchiocephalic Fistula works

 Pateients that are diagnosed  end stage renal failure (ESRF)  mostly require to perform dialysis treatment. Principally, dialysis is process  of cycling and filter patients blood outside their body through a special filter called dialyzer. Method used to access the vein and artery for dialysis is called branchiocephalic fistula (BCF).

BCF consider permanent and stable access to kidney failure patients.  To create BCF , a surgeon will joins an artery  in arm to a vein  through anastomosis (fistula)  that will made the blood flow rapidly by pass the cappillaries. Once the fistula mature  (6 to 8 weeks) the patients can start the dialysis treament. At this time the   the blood vesesels and vein wall are already enlarge and ready to be dialized. During the treatment procedures, two needles are inserted in to the fistula vein, arterial needle draws blood from the upstream location while veneous needle returns the blood downstreams. This sequence will prevents  partial recycling of blood that alreadly filtered by dialysis machine which could lead to less effective of the treatment.

Clotting of acess can happen and a blood thinner called Heparin is injected in to the acess to  relieve the access tunnel.  There are 4 suggessted  acess points for dialysis patients, one lower and another upper  for both  arms. Even BCF consider as parmanent access ,  it can become malfunction due to numerous factors like  clotting and hard labor of BCF  hand . Some BCF lasted for a year or even 5 to 10 years. By estimating 5 year  of BCF   life span for each acess, a kidney patient has 20 years  to be dialized  and stay alive almost healthily. This also must considering  how meticulous the patients safe guard their BCF.

Kidney Disease and Pandemic

 Kidney Disease  and Pandemic

A dialysis patient was stopped on his way to treatment center during MCO enforcement. After presenting his treatment consent letter , he  let to pass.The enforcer then remind,'  I give u an hour to settle and be back home urgently'...

The issues to the incident is about our level of unawareness on  kidney disease. Knowledge on the disease is still lacking .  A dialysis patiente normally diagnosed  chronic kidney disease or CKD which indicate they have reach the end stage of renal failure (ESRF). They urgently need to undergo Hemodialysis treatment (HD) by attending 3 sessions a week for 4 hours for each session the whole life. Medical finds that CKD patients would only able to live for about a month if direct discontinuation thedialysis  treatments.

Why covid 19 pandemic will be tough on kidney patients? A brief explanation about what really happen. Bodies get to function from what we eat drink through biochemical process called metabolism. It also creates metabolic waste like urea, uric acid and ammonia that must be eliminated from the body buy healthy kidney. Thus, arterial blood from the heart  flows to body pick up these toxins  and enter exretory system through renal artery that clean the blood. This process is   24/7 for 24 hrs and filtering our blood about 30 times.  Subsequently excretory  system filters out through urination. Additionally,  excretory system also regulate our blood preassure, activate vitamin D  for bone health and stimulate production of red blood. When kidney stop working well,our internal body go into imbalance and chaos. It start to effect the healths and morbidity of a person. Metabolic waste, excess water and extra minerals started to builds up   instead of being excreted.

Here dialysis take place to replace the function of the kidney to clear all the toxicated  fluids which fluctuate in the body. Prolong and delay of dislysis treatment will be severely detrimental to health of CKD patients.

Coming back to earlier question, why covid hit hard to those with CKD ? This is due to  inability of the patients to fight infections when the immune system is suppressed. They consider among high risk group of people with chronic condition, and may experience more serious covid 19 illness. CKD patient's blood are not perfectly clean of toxins. The treatment only provide small portion of the blood filtered and not by well fuctioning kidney.

Patients under dialysis  are urge to continue their treatment despite the pandemic. Issues happen when  some pstients were found to have a fever and they could not be dialized in immune compromised patient  setting. The ill CKD  patients must show up at hospital and required isolation that will add the overloading of hospital occupants.

Statistically , in  2019 ,  kidney diseases patients  amounting to 49,000  and had the increase rate of 7000 new cases per year. In year 2040 will see estimate of  106,000 of patient will undergo dialysis treatments. Capacity and capability are serious matter to ponder when the time come. This include the awareness and education of getting healthy kidneys.

Pandemic: Before and After

Pandemic: Before and After

The nation is in the moment of test. This pandemic is looking on how we can work together and everyone has their own set of responsibility. The measures taken here are interdependent, the only effective practice that would determined the real outcome. They key players or the frontlines which deal direct or directly with the pandemic are taking offensive aspect of the approach, while the citizen need to be stayed safe at home. Only such solidarity we can get this dark time pass at great speed. Prolong and dragging of this lockdown implementation would bring another set shortcoming, that is economic predicaments. So nation must bear in mind , the rule is simple as the authority do the test, isolate, trace and cured the positives, other must lend their helping hand to abide to movement control order. How soon the pandemic can be wiped away lies to the hand of all citizens. Transmission of the virus need to halt as the spreading chain   cut off.

We saw how pandemics can crashed the economy, collapse the health care system, hospital cramped with ill patients. Basic PPE like masks, gowns , ventilators, beds , test kits are running low as we reach the peak of the pandemics. Our authority strike oil at contain the virus , hospital executes their pandemic plans, allocate treatment rooms, ordering  extra supplies, recruit new volunteers and assigning specific facilities to deal with the situation.

When situation escalating , health plan approach must be well coordinated. More people will get infected in Mid April as the mass testing taken place. Then the supply will be worrying with dwindling equipment, growing number of patients and endangered of frontlines susceptible to contract with the disease. The plan must catered the projections figures and simultaneously strengthen the public health force based on future requirement. US has estimated the pandemic would have infected 2.2 million of their people, and now deploying the war reserve to act possible way.

Putting in order of the medial and grocery supply chain is imminent. This situation must be equate to war time effort. Manufacturers have to start producing and stockpiles essential apparatus. This means manufacturing product like PPE, medical related equipment while edging technology opportunity and capability to support the work plan. Private Labs have to lend their capacity in produce more test  results while more sophisticated test kits being purchase to accelerate the testing  effort. Priority are the frontline to be tested because  we cant afford to loose the existing.

The end state is  to achieve minimum death with high rate of patients cured. As the condition subside and situation getting under control, nation will get back on their feet to face another challenge of economic shortcomings. When hotels are empty, airline grounded , business hibernate, small business and restaurants  closing had lead to people loosing their job.  People with low income will be hardest hit . They need to kick start the job hunting to continue living and survive. This target of people will need to be fundamentally  support  from the government.

Another incoming threat will be mental ill problems when human contact are cut off. Anxiety aroused and obsessive compulsive persons are in danger when they face loneliness especially the elderly people. The survivor of the pandemics might have to  take time to heal after gone through long quarantine experiences. Burnout may occur to those encounter critical condition  in the ward. Some cases shown in Wuhan, some  people now to refuse to  leave their home and develop agoraphobia.

On brighter side, post trauma lead the citizen had a way of coming together in support each other to better health conscious c. Testing for STD become mainstream, important of washing hand and the education of clinical hygiene become public awareness.

The post pandemic catalysing social change of how people adapt working at home, conference calling  and flexible child care. People will start take seriously the need to stay at home when sick. Government will start to create system more sustainable channel to rapidly allocate subsidy fund to all citizens especially the non-government servant. The effective downstream process fasten the cash flow to stabalise the economy. Equal labour policy and health care system will be on the spotlight and encourage more affordable scheme from  health institution.

Like after 9/11, countermeasure become focus on counter terrorism, pandemic would saw pivotal attention shift to garner public health, funding and new attaraction of student applying public health programs. Besides that more domestic production capability will be initiated especially medical supply and essentials goods. In global scale, inter nation partnership will  flourishes and  more forum of  understanding  the pandemic commitment swill heatedly debate.

We learn much lessons from the pandemics. Our curiosity  will be asked whats's  next. While nation and the world  commence with  daily routine,  we  are readily prepare  for  incoming upsurge of SARS Cov- 3.

the war of running dogs

Another famous historical half-fiction novel that spells our war against communism was Noel Barber’s The War of Running Dogs. The book covered the Emergency time from   1948  to 1960, narrates critical period of abolishing the indoctrination of communism  by the British and throbbing moment in giving independent to Malaya. Basically,  I would say the  book served as British version how their  heroic protagonist’s mind had managed get rid the ‘running dogs’ from success od dominating Malaya to establish Republic of Communism.   Malaya was every one  dream due to her rubber and mining lucrative. From Dutch  to Japan then British and now communist always dearing for the resources with lusting revenues that be delved with soil. Jap in their struggles to fund their prolong wars saw Malaya as their great opportunity and   need  be secured as possible soon. The Jap a triumphantly  seized  the whole peninsular within unbelievable two months. But they don’t stay long when the British made comeback after the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima which undermine overall of their effort.

Chinese people whose the majority  of communist members, initially had worked together with British  as alliance in disrupting and disparate jap effort to seize Malaya. But the plot gone awry when jap surrendered,   both former British and Chinese cooperative became rival of each other. British themselves who  have trained the guerrilla fighters have to  pay back the dissident and resistance from their own recruits.   The MPAJA which later known, had their own set of doctrine to spread the empire of communism in South East Asia, but the  British cunning make decision letting Malaya for independent to further curbing  the spread communism influence in the peninsular.

The book basically depicting British’s heroic characters  on  how they defeated the communist guerrillas  within the span of 12 years. In the early chapter saw how the heat of crisis rising with reluctant and easy going personality  of Sir Edward Gent as High Commissioner . He become realised shortly before 8 am on Jun 1948  when three young Chinese communists burst into the office of a large Malayan rubber plantation in Sungai Siput  and shot the  manager , Arthur Walker at point blank range. Later was another incident that claimed  the life of John Alison , also a estate manager by twelve armed men, left Gent with untenable upsurge  situation of Malaya. Communists were getting reinforced to launch  all out war against British to put Malaya on their own hand.

Gurney Decision

Incoming successor was Sir Henry Gurney, who had foresight how to win the war, made profound decision that were to change not only the conduct of the war but the world’s thinking and policies when faced with communist insurgency. His first and prime decision was  that no armed forces have control of the war, he advocated that  the war in Malaya was war of political ideologies. The need was armed support for a political war, not political support for army war. Gurney  said that too many tools would not finish the job and he undermines to satisfy any amy chief. He strengthened the police force by appointed col Nicoll Gray,  a gallant DSO who worked with him in Palestine before. He added far reaching measures into effect by the police could now detain suspects without any trial up to two years. He then set a system of rewards with killing and capture Chin Peng which worth $80,000. Later he made compulsory for every citizen to register their identification card for further control. Chin Peng quite slow to realise  that gurney had early plan to resettle the squatter , which later become benchmark approach to undermined the communists. Unfornately Gurney was ambushed at Gap , strike that consider unplanned  by the communists. His Rolls Royce were viciously shattered by communist’s Bren guns. True facts that he was also joined with his wife and son in the vehicle. At the moment rain of bullets were shot, Gurney had  at sudden exit the vehicle run towards adjacent cliff. It was weird decision but later realise it was for the  purpose of  diverting  the line of fire from the Royce to him in order to protect his family in the vehicle.

Brigs plan

In order to erect new villages in resettling squatters there are alarming need for  authority or  special powers to implement, a power that could call on civilian or army. British also find that they are in the middle of built up troubles with no Higher Commissioner could handle the government, the country  and  importantly deal with Sultan on land matters.  Sir Harold Briggs came down to Malaya after been in Burma, seems a man who understand the whole situation and also passionately belief that this was a war to win people more than a war to kill them. He  firmly saw that this is  a war of ideologies. Over the dinner with Thomson, the Secretary for Defence, Briggs believed the whole key  to the war lies in getting control of the squatter areas.  He reaffirms that the people are uppermost , but we can’t expect any support from the people you unable to protect. Briggs  dictate what all he wanted to organize – a small supervisory staff to coordinate work, ministries, police and army got to do their own job but he will coordinate every steps and actions by pick up things that go wrong and supervise. Without any delay he draft out the directives to get the balls rolling.

These emergency derive to the well known decisive Briggs plan. He underline the  vitals in conducting the war , firstly to dominate the populated area to built the feeling of complete security. Secondly Briggs concerns the need to break up communist organization within the population areas  by isolate their food and information supply.Lastly destroying the bandits by forcing them to attack on security force ground. Briggs confidently believed with all these essentials, the communist guerrillas would be like a fish out of water, gasps helplessly until he dies. Briggs immediately formed a small War Council  consisting himself, the administration heads , police, army and RAF. Policies were planned and everyone had a part to play because it is  civilians wars and all need a very tight coordination. Ideas were shared and Brigss brought the concept of joint thinking to produce good resolution  to present up to federal war council to be approved. After resettlement site had been identified and agreed , surveyors drawn the plan and each area  and had provision for police posts, school, a clinic and luxury of electricity and water stand pipes.

Briggs  then add another task to security force to hold various inspection points of long lists of restricted items. Cars were stopped, belts were undone even underneath of car engines. The main objective was rice  for the rice was both the strength  and weaknesses of CT. True fact that when the CT who were denied rice for the long time suffered physically and morally. Until then each soldier becoming amateur custom officer .This later known as Operation Starvation,  zeroing to undermine the CT will to fight.

The Supremo Templer

The next successor of High commissioner was  infamous Sir Gerald Templar, British would know how Malaya  would be handled by this unconventional  man of coloured  Field Marshal. He breaks the tradition of previous High commissioner by dealing all matter seriously fierce manner and never take for granted even tiny of people welfare. Templer’s decisions were firm and bold any his instructions always means now without a delay. He always be quoted as saying ‘ if you are incompetent  , I sent you and replace thrice man better than you’. He wanted those work under him to unite and working as a team by no one above another. He refused to differentiate  and in fury voice he would scowled to Britons at all white lake club in Kuala Lumpur,’ there no such bloody thing as colour bar, British boys, Rhodesians, Gurkhas, Africans and Fijians are risking their life aside by side with Malaya, Chinese and Indians. The men see the real enemy in communism and they also clearly see their real friend.’ He won the admiration of local people.

Templer spent little time in his office, he wanted things done and done quickly, hate most of wolly kind of thinking. He refurbished State and district War Committee in new level after seeing ineffective and valueless. He knew that civilians, soldiers and police would never agreeable. Templer started the system of  Red Minute,  he never procrastinate on every evening after visiting trip sites and considering to complaints , would landed at his office to start write brief notes demanding instant actions to be carried out. Templer believed that  he got to offer the people in trouble a big carrot, and he had something big offer to Malaya , ‘ You should have independent if you help me to get rid of the communists’. Templer got all his power to control military operations, police and civilian servants and uttered the need of first class intelligent service with widest power possible. He urgent museum director on meeting and direct to brighten up the propaganda to people bearing the believes of famous slogan ‘the battle for the hearts and mind of the people. His deep conviction that Malaya Independent would be success if the nation were united, and create way of life Malaya, not the British or American way but must be Malaya way of life.

Templer visited schools, hospitals, received delegations while working eighteen hours a day and minded to bring women to contribute by starting women institution , new red cross branches and community centres. He expanded police force and by the tine more than 40000 regular troops recruited and request 120 armoured cars, 250 scouts cars and 600 armoured personal carrier. He desperately train the officers to ensure their competency to handle the emergency. He enforced curfew by allow the people only can leave their home from noon to 2 am. Templer first few months marked sharp drop in the incidents and reaped the benefits of improved public image.

Grand finale

After almost major vast of malaya peninsular are declared as white area, the emergency was to end in the middle of 1960. During the last three years of the war, more roads were build, more jungles are cleared, bridges and water system constructed, school and hospital started. Tunku Abdul Rahman, our father of independent louded that we were not fighting the communist terror with arms alone, we went a long way to win the hearts and mind of our people, we gave people more than the communists could ever hope to give. Chin Peng has to admit he was loosing the battle and issue directives to all his member that they can apply to leave the jungle in any conditions. Eventually all restrictions were lifted and marked by greatest victory parade in Kuala Lumpur on 31 July 1960.

The success of the war of heart and minds signicantly crush the establishment of Communists dictatorship in Malaya, South East Asia as  a whole. It’s a war that cost life of 1865 security force, while civilians claimed of 2560 wounded , 2473 murdered and 810 missing.  War was  won collectively among Malay , British and Malayan Chinese that strive the brilliant plan to combat against  Mao Tse Tung’s  classic guerrillas tactic.  Not forgetting individual of high leadership  like Gurney, Briggs, Templer and Tunku.

the jungle is neutral - as i read

After succesfully regain malaya  from jap, spencer chapmen , among key officer in the 'stay behind party' has recuperate himself and take  education job at university of reading  after his military career. At the aged 63 he suffered terminal ailments  due to his past  dwelling in malayan jungle operations. On 8 august 1971, he  ends his own life at his study. leaving a note to his wife ' I don't want you to have to nurse an invalid for the rest of my life'.  Its shocking to know a coloured and gallant british officer , who fought in the heat of the malayan jungle  with brutality of jap had ended his life such  dismay. By acknowledging  his exceptional endurance and strenght to survive , left me thinking about human survivalbility, especially person of extraordinary , will deteriorately losing his will and perseverence when  challenges  become absent in his life. Spencer story of fighting in small group on his mission in malayan jungle  is worth ponding for those who want to call themself  an army officer. 

Ealier japs landed in kota baharu,  going fast from kota baharu to grik , accelerating to reach kuala kangsar in order to cut the communication of the 11th Divison in Kedah. The division is falling and withdraw to line of perak river. Unable to hold the line, 11 th Div  moved down  to kampar when bulk of artillery gun position had their reach for covering fire. Eventually japs were expected to cross the line bfore christmas, and during this desperate moment Spencer arrived at Kuala Lumpur in the middle of air raid exactly on december 22, 1941. Knowing british going to leave major bulk of their force from malaya for retreat , his mission was very clear : to remain in the primer jungle of malaya and to train  the native guerilla forces and battle on. He spent 3 year plus in the jungle until his success to built strong guerilla forces to resist japs througgh deadly encounter with the enemy and horrifying diseases.

The tactic adopted was hit and run raids behind the enemy lines and operations are focus at night time. first operation was executed  at the trong river, targets are aimed particularly along the jap line of communication from taiping to the tanjung blanja over perak river. to further assist the operation, spencer had supplied of malay speaking  who knew that part of perak. jungle always give great assurance  of cover and concealment, for spencer diving to the ground would completely hidden him in the dense  undergrowth and best methode to elude any pursuit. after sometime in the jungle, spencer had learned  a lot about jap and the country. he managed flock back to kuala lumpur the sent his reconnaissance report and start to craft the plan for further actions to train the guerillas.

Spencer mentally awared how critical to recruit volunteers especially in the dense of malayan. for him the jungle is neutral, it provides unlimited for friend and foe, only attitude of mind  whether  you will go under or survive. some locals already are forced to provide information to the jap and they have closely align to to  for protectection or fear of atrocities that jap may incur. volunteers among planters a favourable to spencer due to their robust nature and  great sense of humor. they were group in to six and then operate in three pairs . they must be stronger in attack and defence and having ability  to cary more explosives . during night, they are expected the operate in smaller group even a single person. from all his experience spencer sees the group need to have nature of run the lines of polar or climbing expedition than conventional millitary exercise. he managed to get the right people to run his business and confes brit like himself taking more long time to adapt to this kind battle space. he admitted that the length of british soldiers to sustain  in the malayan jungle was only for few month or NCO perhaps could withstand a year. the hostility of malayan jungle is too severe with man eating tiger , deadly fevers, venomous snakes and scorpion and native with poisoned dart. luckily spencer manage to live with  his new  diet of rice and vegetables.

in keeping himself  to daily events and getting  information clear, spencer was keen on writing his war diary. he captured every name of places,  locals , and would write every event in precise detail. the diary was consider valuable appaaratus and not to be loosed to anyone. in one situation, spencer had encounter an ambush and was slightly shot to his arm, he desperately crawled to ground to bury his diary before get captured by the japs and confiscate his diary.  througout the years in the jungle  , he kept very full diary  and wrote it up each evening. but  in one of the month  he was down very ill and thought of going to die, he started to write  his will  and dictated it his war buddy , Haywood.  at another occasion , he jumped from his ill bed panicking because has not written  anything on his diary for two consecutive days.  Hayward then tellling spencer the real truth that it was not two days, but he has been unconscious for seventeen days  and had completely in comatose due to severe illness. Spencer also a keen reader and lacking of  book in the jungle poorly effecct on his mind. when new loads of resuplly landed, he come to elate to see wonderfull selection of war books, among them John  Brophy Target Island and Gibbs Battle Within. One of his nobel initiatives was  producing illustrations of guerilla tactic manual , updated gun drills procedure and explosion methode which then become essential reference for guerilla volunteers.

guerilla camp was designed convienint as possible for the new volunteers to undergo their training. it was like any soldiers recruitment center routine, time were meticulously set for every recruitees to follow. as early at 4 am when the cook already start to heat up the kitchen bfore the whistle blew up at 530 for morning master parade. they are fully dressed up with complete weapons, fully armed within the 5 minutes of the whistle blowing. subsequently PT take place on the parade ground with mild strenous considering  the volunteers low diet. after cleanup they will resume with formal parade,  singing the ' red flag' and followed with talk that last for half an hour on several topics ; politics, camp disciplines include soviet war success. prime  time training proceed with military training, arms drill , grenade throwing perfecting marching . many of the volunteers keen to learn the exact distance which rifle could kill , muzzle velocity of tommy gun , how many rounds per minute of lewis gun capable of.  they were true learner and very fascinated with all the weapons. as the got any new type of weapon they eagerly strip it down with great enthusiasm. bfore last light call, a general debate will take place in main hut of the camp, on diverse subject smoking, how malaya fall and more serious topic that should jap prisoner be put to death or converted to communism and liberated?  spencer felt that he had succesfully gathher the potential volunteer of winning the war.

in order reorganize this covert stay behind operation, force 136 was established to get things worked effectively. with former intructional 101 STS staffs that highly equipped with guerilla tactics, this force main intention was to disrupt the jap tenure of all occupied countries in any possible way. they have to work with chinese agents and ensure the member of the force are capable with the language and country background.  they european member of the force have to join the guerilla in the jungle with their radio communication equipment and sent out information colllected by their chineese agents. the first operation know as Gustavus 1 was for a european and several chinese embark on Dutch submarine from Colombo and shipped by night using chinese boat north of malacca straits. they furher landed on the west coast between penang and port swettenham. subsequently the chinese in the party then contact the chinese ashore  and link them to the guerilla. in duration of a month, they force come out by chinese fishing craft to be contacted again with the submarine. spencer was one of the member in the final expedition of this operation. 

On august 6, 1945, the historic event took place, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and three day later a second bomb devestated nagasaki. On august 17 the cease fire order  was sent to all force 136 peronnel in the field. spencer who had left malaya earlier being parachuted back to malaya at Kuala Lipis drop zone for final cordination of cease fire. spencer  accepts the japaneese surrender in kuantan on september 30, 1945.

During his 3 years of fighting battle in malayan jungle , major spencer chapmen didnt realise that he was alredady  promoted to Leut Colonel, until he received a letter that stated  to his name and rank. upon his bravery and perseverence he was knighted as Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and Efficiency Decorations (ED) by british royal.

wabak dan masa

 saat diuji adalah saat dinilai tahap prestasi dan mampunya diri. di keratan perjalanan manusia, banyak simpang -simpang ujian. di simpang itu, kita dilontar dengan persoalan untuk diri : apakah keputusan yang bakal diterajui, apa paras fikir kita tidak ambil keputusan yang salah, dan lebih penting dan utamanya - apakah ujian itu menjadi landas kita memuhasabah diri menjadi manusia lebih kenal pangkal hujungnya.

aku melihat ujian ini sebagai dua cabang. Jika ujian ini bisa menjadi kita lebih baik, hampir pada pencipta , makna ia adalah sebuah hikmah. sebaliknya jika ujian ini lebih merenggang kita kepada pencipta makanya ujian itu adalah berwajah musibah.

namun , aku keras percaya, apa saja yang berlaku di ruang lingkup kehidupan itu adalah hikmah. kerana nadi masa masih berdenyut untuk kita menanam benih makna dan tujuan. Musibah adalah apabila kita sedari , akan silapnya kita , namun sudah kehilangan masa dan tanah untuk membajak kebaikan. ini sudah pastinya apabila masa kita telah tamat, waktu di hadap untuk di mizan dan masih masih saja merayu  diberikan masa, dan kali ni berjanji menjadi manusia yang patuh

wabak ini akan berakhir, dan manusia akan kembali melilau di serata muka bumi dengan tujuan masing-masing. dan aku lebih mengharap agar kali ini tujuan mereka lebih terarah . bukan lagi kepada kemusnahan tapi kepada pengertian bahawa masa untuk hidup di bumi semakin singkat.