5/8/13 THE FATTY BOLD KUCHING...the hairless me and my woman (draft)

"My woman laid to my side. Her head was bold. Her armpits were neat clean. Her under world was even cleaner. The hairs on her legs and arms all shaved to the skin. I look at her, staring indeed. I don't see her as her. I touched her, I felt no sense. She was not her, my natural woman. A doll in a boutique shop indeed, but without a dress." In revenge, I say no word but act to the same tune. "I skin my head. I shaved clean any hair from every cell of my body. I am another naked doll lying next to her the next day. When she look at me, she turned her head away with a saying: "You don't look like my man any longer". We were indeed just a naked hairless old bodies, that don't look at all cute as the naked hairless kid.

(2) For long, I have been trying to find words or phrases that may strike deep and hard into some people heart, as when I run around Kuching keep seeing trees being fell without serious replacement for equal or better. I see worst scenes all over. May my above sexiest opening help for some to think and appreciate. Just look at the road leading or out of our airport. It is just as hairless as my woman and me. In the past, green trees lined the road. Those trees used to welcome and bid farewell to the road users of our gateway, are no more there. Those trees have to go for the cost of maintenance was too huge for MBKS to shoulder. That was the answer when the initial out cries were voiced in those days. People seem to accept such argument. But was it the real truth for the cutting of those trees? What left are mere shrubs, with the least natural ecological functionality. Thereon, more and more road side trees were fell down in the mid of the night. The latest was the Petra Jaya Round About except pokok Abang Johari, may be.

(3) Roads improvement had always the caused for trees felling in Kuching. But, both DBKU and DBKS or even MPP seem then not able to replace those trees accordingly. Look at the effect of the Matang Jaya Road Expansion. The green heart and hands of Laila's Taib seem now everybody forgotten story. This road is running East-West, and what does that signify? Accordingly the widening or realignment of the Jalan Abdul Rahman Yakub ie after the Satok Bridge, had eaten those gigantic road side trees with no sign of better replacement. Driving along these roads, makes one feel dry and senseless. The same if one now drive along Jalan Kulas which is in the progress of road shoulder paving. What are those large paving for? Who is going to take a walk along those hot pave? We (especially DBKU and MBKS officials) seem to love to stroll in Perth, but we copycat Perth with negligence understanding of our own environment and social attitude. The green lane had gone, and in the future potted plants will have to be placed there just as what is happening to Jalan Satok. Will the maintenance of these potted plants be cheaper? Will their ecological functionality be equal if not better? Drive along these roads in the bright up rising sun or even during the sunset, feel the glaring effect of the sun, will those not having effect to one's office going or home coming moods? But for sure, all those will invite for illegal parking. Then where is such concept of Cultured City of DBKU or what is the clear true definition of cultured city of DBKU?

(4) Personally I began to hate living in Kuching. The feel green shaded city is now turning into a desert in the making. While Madinah and Las Vegas, the two desert cities are being made green, here we are, the green shaded city being tarnsform into a desert city, what a backward moving mind? People seem to forget or simply ignorant of the fact that we are living in a humid hot eco-climatic but harmony Allah made system, and thus we must keep to such environment if we want to have a balance ecosystem. The capitalism had ingrain too deep into our soul, making us to forget the fitrah of the tropic. In some writing, prophet Muhammad SAW was portrayed as having long hair to the shoulder with nice trimed beard. Theologically, now Muslims especially the blinded Malays interpreted those as a mere characters that one should emulated (Sunnah) rather seeing those as Muhammad's SAW hidden signal of being an environmentalist? To me he indeed was giving us some hint that things should be kept to their natural being for reason of beauty and functionality. He kept his hair long, but not too long to be a woman. He kept his beard grow, but not too messy to look like goat beard. He just want to be look matured and respected. Our Kuching city must be make shaded green, not merely green.

(6) DBKU, DBKS or even MPP should have program with all the neighborhoods and households to make them to contribute to make Kuching Shaded Green. Green is Allah gift to us, we must respect and maintain as such forever. There are botanists in the Forest Department, the Ecologists in Unimas and Agronomist in DOA, now that they have less works due to bugetary constraint, why not then their brain be put into better green social reengineering effort to cool our current social stress? If Yusuf Puteh was well known with his Seven Black Rules, Bujang Noor with his very refreshing jokes, Hamid Bugo for his Pustaka Negeri and parks, Aziz Husein with his GIT evolution, then what would be Morshidi Ghani legacy? Office deco of 5S or QCC? Are we going to be happy with big roads but naked, green patches as mere road reserves or bushy paths? My point is, what is there to cool our up coming urban distress among our people?

(7) Please and please, never turn Kuching into a fat bold lady (let me borrow this words though it may hurt). Without the hair, the lady will not be different from the slow easy camel.

Kuching, Sarawak
19 August, 2013