Thank you, Singapore

How pitiful can the media get?

Bernama, The Star, and NST went to town in their coverage of the floods in the south. Good mileage was given to the various aid coming in from the govt, private sector and NGOs. The top two leaders were photographed carrying babies in different parts of the affected areas. The operations room in Pan Pacific Hotel, JB has a royalty manning the hotlines.

Cool.

What's not cool is this:
Two teams from jiran Singapore are now in Malaysia doing their bit in providing aid. The six-member Singapore Red Cross brought in S$10,000 worth of food and relief items, while a convoy of volunteers from Mercy Relief towed over hygiene kits and water filter equipment worth S$34,000 to Mercy Malaysia's relief centre in Muar.

These volunteers will skip Christmas with their island friends and families for one of sweat and hardship among strangers who will surely be warm friends. They will be in Malaysia for about a week.

Said a Singapore Red Cross spokesman Lim Thean Poh: "This is the time to demonstrate our friendship. What happens thereafter depends on whether they still need our assistance. If so, we will do whatever we can within the resources we've got here. But I am sure this is not the first and last of everything. In fact, it is a long journey in our bilateral relationship with the Malaysian Red Crescent Johor Baru branch."


Not a single mention was reported in the Malaysian press about this - the nation's voice.


Are we that stuck-up that we can't even voice a grateful thank you?

Tsk, tsk, tsk... Masa banjir pun nak main politik. Kena jaga muka kot. Begitu penting ke?