Malaysian Post

Read the news in the Star today of a heroic job by our Fire and Rescue Department.

My hat off to the team members espcially C. Kesavan. I think he deserve  an award for this act of heroism.

The woman had threatened to take her own life by jumping off the building in Taman Pelangi, Johor Baru at about 8.25am Thursday. - 15 January, 2009

The woman slips from the ledge and falls while screaming "Allah hu akbar" (God is great). However, operations commander C. Kesaven dashed forward and broke her fall. - 15 January, 2009

The woman slips from the ledge and falls while screaming "Allah hu akbar" (God is great). However, operations commander C. Kesaven dashed forward and broke her fall. - 15 January, 2009

Operations Commander C. Kesaven (right) lifting the girl to a stretcher with the assistance of other firemen after the failed suicide attempt in Taman Pelangi, Johor Baru. - 15 January, 2009

JOHOR BARU: A fireman dashed forward without a second thought and stretched out his arms to break the fall of a distraught woman who fell from the top floor of a three-storey shophouse here.

The 25-year-old woman had apparently wanted to jump from the building in Taman Pelangi at 8.25am yesterday but 12 firemen from the Larkin fire station had calmed her.

However, after 50 minutes, the woman slipped from the ledge she was perched on and fell, screaming Allahhuakbar! (Allah is great).

Operations commander C. Kesaven dashed forward and broke her fall. She first fell on his head and then into his outstretched arms.

When met, Kesaven was modest about his heroic act, mumbling only: “It’s part of my job (to save people).”

The woman, he said, did not have any serious injuries and had been sent to the Sultanah Aminah Hospital for further examination.

“She had been renting a room on the third floor of the building. We believe she has marital problems,” he said.

The woman had earlier locked the door to her room, preventing firemen from entering and rescuing her from the ledge.

Firemen outside the building began setting up airbags and implementing other safety measures.

Kesaven said they did not want to break down the door, fearing that the shock and tremor might cause the woman to fall.

“We took every safety precaution. We’re glad that a tragedy was prevented,” he added.

State Fire and Rescue Department director Abd Ghani Daud commended Kesaven for his bravery.

“I am really proud of him and the rest of his men. He risked his own life to rescue the woman,” he said.

Stumbled on a collection of videos on Youtube by the Israel Defense Forces. The collection of videos is located here.

Israel is well known for developing and buying some of the most advanced military tech and weapons. Now they have even begun using Youtube to explain and defend its recent actions.

I just wonder when our own Government is going to think out of the box and utilise the power of the Internet to further the country’s goal.

Israeli Air Force Strikes Rockets in Transit

While virtually exploring Malaysia on Google Earth, I stumbled upon a couple of interesting scenes. They are reproduced below:

1) The engineers who built these highways should be fired!

2) A Ghost Plane flying in Penang?

From the BBC came this interesting report:

1 Million Pound Note

A £1m Treasury note has fetched £78,300, twice the expected price, at an auction in London.

The note, numbered 000008, was issued after World War II in connection with the Marshall Aid Plan.

The Marshall plan was a programme of funding given to Western Europe by the United States to help with recovery after the war.

Another £1,000,000 note numbered 000007 was sold for £8,000 in 1977, through a private sale.

Private ownership

It was listed by the Guinness Book of Records as being the highest denomination in private ownership.

The number eight note is dated 30 August 1948.

It bears the signature of E E Bridges, secretary to the treasury, in the lower right hand corner and is cancelled over the signature and stamped 6 October 1948, Bank of England.

Before the sale a spokesman for Spink auction house told Coinlink that the defunct number eight note, entered for sale by UK-based banknote collector Bill Parkinson, was expected to fetch between £35,000 and £40,000 in the world banknotes sale at its auction house in Bloomsbury.

It is believed notes number seven and eight are the only remaining notes of nine that were produced at the time.

They were given as mementoes to the US and UK Treasury Secretaries.