The tiger is our national animal. Our heritage. But today only less than 500 of them
remain in the wild. As Malaysians, we need to stand up and protect our heritage.
Speak to your children. Speak to your leaders. Everyone of us can make a difference.
For further information, please visit MYCAT (www.malayantiger.net), WWF Malaysia
(www.wwf.org.my) and Department of Wildlife & National Parks (www.wildlife.gov.my)
There are now just a few thousand tigers left. Seven hundred mountain gorillas. A hundred Iberian lynx. Can we do anything to help them? Emine Saner looks at 10 animals we just have to save - and how you can get involved .... Click here to Continue
Dear My Prince Charming a.k.a My Soulmate and Guardians,
Hi, how are you? I’m fine, and at last I can let go of the most heaviest stone on my shoulder, my research project had submitted and the viva was over, and now I really have time to read on my text as my final exam is coming soon and im graduating soon, I don’t want to have any draw back., because I wanted to graduate from my UNI so badly. Not because I wanted to work, just because I don’t really have a good memory there, as so many politics around the UNI organization’s structure and it actually influenced the students as well. You actually can see it with your TWO BIG EYES.
What I wanted to do after I graduate? Thanks to a friend of mine that reminded me that, we been studying of 4 years continuously, many good and bad things had happen during that period and she said “well, we been studying and without a real rest, we should do something we like before we actually look for a real job” wow, this make me wanted to do something I really wanted to do, not in marketing, erm, should I say No more marketing for now.
There are so many things I wanted to do such as, do myself learning on psychology (which currently I’m doing some self reading, is tough when you have no one to turn to especially all the terms are driving blur, but it wont break my “spirit of learning”)
Besides psychology, I really wanted to do something on animal particularly on tigers and sharks, but mostly tigers because I love towards tigers had developed since I’m 14? I had forgotten, as for sharks I’ll do it as well, because of my love or because I don’t want to break my promise towards SOMEBODY (and you know who you are).
Archeology, is one of my favorite area but I don’t really have the chance to study it and it is difficult to get the material and my interest is on Egyptology because of the pyramid, mummies, tombs and so on, some mummies that I can remember were Ramses, Tutankhamun at Valleys of the king found by Howard Carter and so on.
In addition, my loved towards astronomy had faded or was force to the edge of my memory, I used to like space, and I even dream of becoming astronaut but sending a rocket to space actually pollute the environment and so on, although I love the space, but my phobia towards the planets had increased, I dare not look at the pictures of the planets and I do not know why.
I told renaye I’m into stage drama, but this do required high commitment and time to do so, so I don’t think it is the time yet.
I wish to travel all around the world, learn their languages, their cultures and so on, it is something wonderful and I just can’t wait the time when I get the license to do so.
I just cant wait to finish my course, cant wait to do something I want before I make myself to go into business or working world, but before that I wish all my “to do list” can actually succeed. Do wish me luck.
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Tigers' Crisis - edited
Monday. 3.12.07 12:31 pm
Dear My Prince Charming a.k.a My Soulmate and Guardians,
Cruel almost beyond belief, this Chinese farm breeds hundreds of tigers in rows of battery cages ... so they can be killed and turned into wine...
King, the Siberian tiger, stares at me through the bars of his cage. His two beautiful, graceful companions pace back and forth across their tiny compound. They look crushingly bored. The most exciting thing they can do is paw mournfully at the dirty pools of rainwater on the floor of their cage.
Although the Xiongsen tiger park, near Guilin in south-east China, appears to be a depressingly typical Third World zoo, with a theme park restaurant and open areas where tigers roam, it actually hides a far more sinister secret: it's a factory farm breeding tigers to be eaten and to be made into wine.
In row upon row of sheds, hundreds of tigers are incarcerated in battery-like cages which they never leave until they are slaughtered.
Visitors to the park can dine on strips of stir-fried tiger with ginger and Chinese
vegetables. Also on the menu are tiger soup and a spicy red curry made with tenderised strips of the big cat. Visitors can wash it all down with a glass or two of wine made from Siberian tiger bones.
A waitress at the farm's restaurant tells me proudly: 'The tiger meat is produced here. It's our business. When Government officials come here, we kill a tiger for them so they have fresh meat. Other visitors are given meat from tigers killed in fights. We now have 140 tigers in the freezer.
We also sell lion meat, bear's paw, crocodile and snake. The bear's paw has to be ordered in advance as it takes a long time to cook.
The waitress clearly does not care that she is selling meat and wine from endangered species. She is not worried that selling them is against Chinese and international law, and helps to fuel the poaching that is driving tigers to extinction.
Tigers and other endangered species are being reared on an industrial scale throughout China, despite international treaties forbidding this. The Mail discovered three factory farms breeding tigers in China. The Guilin farm alone has 1,300 tigers, including the incredibly rare and exlusive Siberian sub-species.
It rears and slaughters Bengal, South China and White tigers. More than 300 African lions and 400 Asiatic black bears are also reared here for food and traditional Chinese medicines.
The Chinese authorities claim that farms like the one at Guilin are a vital part of the country's conservation efforts, and that they will one day release these endangered creatures back into the wild.
But my visit to the Xiongsen Bear and Tiger Mountain Village shows their real intention could not be more different. For the fact is that these animals could never survive in the wild.
Having spent their lives in tiny, battery-style units, they cannot hunt and would be dead within days of being released. Each shed at the tiger farm - and I saw at least 100 - houses between three and five tigers in a space no larger than a typical family living room. In relative terms, they have about as much space as a battery hen.
The animals have all been bred on the farm. The cubs are taken from their mothers at three months and put in a kindergarten. I saw around 30 tiger cubs in this creche, where they stay until they are old enough to be transferred to the battery units.
Many of the youngsters kept leaping at the fencing. The younger ones simply wanted to play like kittens. The older cubs were already showing signs of stress.
Tigers are naturally solitary creatures that roam over dozens of square miles, so it's hardly surprising that life in the cages drives them insane. I saw numerous examples of stress-related repetitive behaviour.
The mature animals paced back and forth across their cages for hours on end - three steps forward, three steps back. Some hurled themselves at the bars of their prison cells, while others simply stared into space.
Over-crowding drives the creatures to attack each other, often resulting in death. Officially it is only the tigers killed in such fights that can be eaten or turned into wine. But it is clear that many of them die as a result of a bullet to the head.
They are not the only animals killed. For entertainment, visitors to the animal park can watch the 'live killing exhibition', a sick spectacle in which animals are 'hunted' and torn to pieces by tigers while onlookers cheer.
I watched in horror as a young cow was stalked and caught by a tiger. Its screams
filled the air as it struggled.
A wild tiger would dispatch its prey within moments, but these tigers' natural killing skills have been blunted by years of captivity. The tiger tried to kill - tearing, biting at the cow's body in a pathetic-looking frenzy - but it simply didn't know how. Eventually, the keepers stepped in and put the cow out of its misery.
Virtually all the tigers from the Guilin farm end up at a winery 100 miles to the north, their carcasses dumped in huge vats of rice wine and left to rot for up to nine years.
The Chinese believe that the tiger's strength passes into the wine as its body decomposes.
They also believe that it is a powerful medicine that wards off arthritis, strengthens bones and acts as a general tonic.
Smelling like a mixture of methylated spirits, antiseptic and congealed meat, it is difficult to believe that anyone would willingly drink it, and yet people pay up to £100 a pint for it.
The Guilin farm also has its own small winery and acts as a distribution centre across ChinaThe distribution manager showed me around with a Chinese tourist.
A small dingy office acts as the nerve centre of the warehouse. On the wall were charts showing that day's deliveries of tiger wine across China. Six crates were sent to Wuhan and another to Tianjing. Six crates of 'powdered bear' were sent to Shanghai. Numerous other cities and countless deliveries were also listed
We were led into the warehouse, where I was hit with the disgusting and potent aroma of tiger wine. I was led past countless crates containing the foul-smelling brew. In the corner of the warehouse was a huge brown vat. It must have held at least 50 gallons, and its contents were probably worth around £12,000.
We have three ages of wine; said the manager. ;Three, six or nine-years old. It helps with arthritis and strengthens old people's bones
She slid aside the lid of the earthenware vat to reveal a reddish-brown liquid with an overpowering smell of meths. A piece of string was pulled out of the vat. Attached to the end was a tiger's rib cage. Small slivers of dark red flesh could still be seen clinging to the bone, even though it had probably been in the vat for at least three years.
The manager then filled up an old plastic water bottle with a pint of wine and handed it to my fellow tourist. He paid £30 for it.
Whatever westerners think of tiger wine, the Chinese regard it as a potent drink with almost magical qualities. In the past, a Chinese doctor may have prescribed small quantities of wine for a short period of time.
But in recent years, big companies have moved into the market and industrialised all parts of the industry. Now the wine is becoming an essential drink for China's corrupt bureaucrats and the nation's nouveaux riches.
Conservationists say tiger farming is not only barbaric, it could lead to the animal's extinction in the wild. It is stimulating demand for meat and wine, and this will inevitably lead to more poaching, says Grace Gabriel, of the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
It costs £5,000 to raise a tiger from a cub to maturity in one of these farms, while it costs no more than £20 in India to poach one. On the market, a dead tiger can fetch £20,000.
With such a huge margin, it is inevitable that more people will poach wild tigers if demand increases," she adds. "There are only a few thousand tigers left in the wild, and the last thing they need is increased demand for their body parts."
If present trends continue, tigers could be extinct in the wild within a decade. Three
subspecies have already vanished. Chinese tigers are down to a pitiful 20 animals in the wild and are "functionally extinct".
There are only about 450 Siberian tigers left in Russia's Far East. The remaining 3-4,000 are sparsely scattered across India, Nepal and South-East Asia.
The trouble is that, as tigers become rarer in the wild, their 'street value' increases, which in turn encourages even more poaching.
Tigers have already become extinct in India's most famous reserve at Sariska. Numbers have plunged in several other reserves, too.
Most of these tigers will have been sold to traders in China. The Chinese authorities do virtually nothing to clamp down on this illegal trade, and many corrupt bureaucrats and police earn substantial sums from it.
And demand is continuing to increase as ever more bizarre uses for tigers are promoted. Tiger whiskers are used to 'cure' laziness and protect against bullets. Their brains, when mixed with oil and rubbed on the skin, are promoted as a cure for acne. Penises are used as aphrodisiacs, while hearts apparently impart courage, cunning and strength.
Tiger farmers also have their eyes on the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. They hope that a huge influx of tourists will lead to increased demand for tiger wine.
Although it is illegal to trade internationally in such tiger products as wine, the Chinese are lobbying hard to get the law relaxed. This June, the Chinese Government is expected to press the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to allow the trade in 'medicines' such as wine produced from farmed tigers.
If agreed, it will lead to a massive increase in tiger farming and tens of thousands of these noble beasts will spend their lives in battery cages.
If the Chinese get their way, then it will almost certainly drive the tigers over the cliff into extinction.
It is almost too late to save this magnificent creature - but not quite.
• For more information about the trade in endangered species see www.ifaw.org
my heart ache when i read this article, i cried (u might say im silly, im too emotional but for me tigers r like my soul, my babies but human cruelty, human sillyness killed them, make them faced much more dangerous than ever, is greedy really the root of evil, i dont know... im sad, what can i do what should i do, waiting for me to graduate, to look for a job to start saving the tigers is it something too late to be done? while im struggling to survive at this world b4 i able to save them... they already been slaughter... i just cant think of that, what should i do , can you please tell me.... please i beg you, if u come across any made by tigers products please dont consumed it, please dont buy it, my tears continue to drop whenever i think of the words that keep on coming back in my brain... reminding me...it is such a torture... I NEED TO SAVE THE TIGERS ASAP i need to.... SAY ME EMOTIONAL SAY ME STUPID... i dont bother anymore....
TIGERS IM SORRY to take the action abit slow... too slow i think....
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Stuffs that i like - Tagged by Giddy Tiger
Tuesday. 3.13.07 10:44 am
Dear My Prince Charming a.k.a My Soulmate and Guardians,
Just realise that i got tagged by Giddy Tiger yesterday night, cause i have nothing better to do so i search google my nick, alamak see my name at Giddytiger then... hahah
Okay okay, stuffs that i like are:-
1. Family - I love my family members
2. Animals - I love animals as an overall however, there are some animals that i dislike.... I LOVE MY DOG
3. Tigers - I love tigers with all my heart, i can become very emotional if there are any bad news about tigers (REAL TIGER not TIGER WOOD)
4. Shopping - every "female" do... dont tell me u dont
5. Poetry - im poetry freak ( i mean in writing )
6. Anime and Manga - love watching and readng them, they are just too good to be watched and read..
8. Travelling - Which im looking forward to ... REAL SOON i can have the license to flee...
9. Mother Earth - i love the earth as she give us place to stay, air to breath and so on...
10. Just too much to name..... oh ya... i love blogging too... hahaha ...
OKAY... top 10 are enough for me, if not the list will continue for few pages, Giddy Tiger did i answered my questions? hehee NOW i wanna be bad so i wanna tag somebody... muahaha
Renaye - lol Nuttz - you dont mind right? since u r still in ur holiday Simple American - muahahahha since u been doing so many tag, so i think u wont mind... Feon-Rabbit - Revenge hahahaha Immomsdaughter - paiseh paiseh... I'm ur loyal reader... hence... hehehe
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Caught in Action - :P
Wednesday. 3.28.07 5:48 am
Dear My Prince Charming a.k.a My soulmate and Guardians,
Is raining is raining, la la la la la.... is raining is raining, recently the weather is freakingly, extremely, and many "ly" HOT HOT HOT and thank god it rain today, most probably the "Rain God" knows that im going to do laundry. Everytime i plan to do my laundry, it rain. ha ha ha... but i love raining so much, because it reduce the temperature of the day, even worst, i get blur and accidentaly bang my car against the bricks (sweat) raining, so cant see hahah (just excuses). besides that, i was trying to dance in the rain, of course with the present of umbrella, i dont want to get sick now because exam is coming soon :@.
By the way, about the topic, today is our big day, why i said so well... i became and interviewer and lurk around the campus hunting for ex-lecturers that who actually taught us in this 2 years, because we (the marketing course-graduating batch) is going to have our very own class magazine in CD form.
So im one of the editorial board member and hehe me and my friend were incharge of hunting muahah and she actually brought the video cam to class just to record. yes we record the interviewing process and because of this we actually freak the lecturers out. hahah
so the very first lecturer that get to "camwhore" was MR XXX he very good, very cooperative with his students.
Me: Sir, do you mind if we record your lecture?
Sir: ha? what????
Me: oh since we are graduating soon, and we r doing this so called cd magazine and bla bla so do you mind?
Sir: oh, okay, i need to makeup...
Me:*eyes wide open* and sir, we need to interview you as well, just give us a short advice and bla bla..
Sir: oh, okay, i need to put on foundation, anyone has foundation here????
MY GOSH. hahah he is so damn funny but always scold us pathetic.. whatever. and later after class, i interviewed him and took photos with him...
So after interviewed him, we went up to the 6th floor and start hunting for ex-lecturers... spotted "historical character" -long story and approach him.
Me: hi sir, how are you
Sir: oh hi, fine, what can i help you
Me:*Grin* we want to interview u, (and i do explain the objectives of the interviewed)
Sir: so you going to put on the book?
Me:*GRIN* nope we gonna video cam it, (and i point to my friend's video recorder)
Sir: *SHOCK* woah, can you give me time to think? or you come back later, because in 5 min i need to attend meeting
Me: *frown* okay, we will make an appointment with you again, in the mean time please prepare your message.
Sir: oh, okay.
He actually asked us to wait for him until 330pm but we dissappear and left him a note.... haha
so after this "historical character" we went to approach another lecturer who taught us the y2s1 when we walked near her cubicle she was shocked to see us there.
Me: Hi, Ms XX, are you free?
Ms: ah yes
Me: we are bla bla (all the obj)
Ms: oh, okay but can you come tomorrow?
Me: why?
Ms: i need to prepare and recall. can we meet tomorrow since i have no class at all
Me: Oh okay, so we make it to 3pm tomorrow.Thank You and bye bye
Ms: bye bye
walked to marketing department, spotted MR AAA, *GRIN GRIN* walked in high speed and approach him. stand near his cubicle and stared at him until he realise we are there :D
AAA: *look here and there* who are you looking for?
WE : YOU
AAA: yes? can i help u
Me: we bla bla (all the obj)
AAA: *Shock* and im busy with the report, can u come bck tomorrow? and i dont know what to say.
ME: spontaneous answer, just give us advice thats all.
AAA: okok come back tomorrow,
We: Okay Okay....
this sir is damn funny but his lecture is damn boring... he make me fall asleep in the class... but v nice guy overall and a bit blur.... and i like him v much in terms of puntuality.
After AAA we spotted another lecturer which was my supervisor once upon a time, approach her and
CCC: yes?
WE :*GRIN* r u free? can we interview u???? bla bla
CCC: har why why?????
WE :the obj
CCC: okok next week next week, this week im very busy
Me: okay okay, when?
CCC: er.... Friday
Me: okay okay
CCC: BYe bye
ME: okay bye bye
she love to shoo us away.... sweat...
See we caught all the lecturers in action... muahahahah and they were shocked when they saw the video cam... hahahahahha because most of the time interview is verbal and hand written now we have it on video form haha...
we dont plan to make any appointment with the lecturers because i dont want them to prepare a long long long long 10 years also cannot finish speech.... hahaha
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Something I wanted to share
Wednesday. 3.14.07 3:28 am
Dear My Prince Charming a.k.a My Soulmate and Guardians,
I been a big fans for Ayaka Hirahara's Jupiter (which is the song's name) and this is the music video on one fo the tv channel, this girl who played the piano actually is her big big big fans and see her hand carefully, and u will know why i wanted to share the video.
Ayaka Hirahara is the best vocal singer (ithink so, is it called vocal singer?) i ever heard...I mean me.. i dont know what about u...
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16 August 2006 USM Convocation
Thursday. 8.30.07 10:00 am
Dear Diary,
Lmao, miss me???
Well i was holidaying at Penag for 3 months, and during the 3 months holidays beside eat n sleep i do did some activities, such as attending my cousin sister convocation at USM... omg just imagine, lots of students graduating and they make it like a week ( i think) just for the convocation... YAWN..
And well, my cousin sister's convocation was on 16 August Thursday so, my Aunties, Uncles, grandpa n grandma came all the way from Kedah to attend her convocation and tada.... my house became HOTEL again...
So around 5pm.. we reach there, and guess what, we were so lucky to get the nearest parking lot ever, maybe God knews that my grandpa n grandma r there to attend their grandchild big day, so they make it a nice pretty spot for us....
so around 515pm, all the graduand r out from the hall, and these were the pics i took....
and of course at nite was feasting ceremony...lol nice foodss on my big auntie's bill which she said to celebrate my cousin n my (pre) graduation dinner... yummy yummy... all were bloated w yummy foods.....
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