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Friends, it is sad to see you distorting facts in some instances and building your arguments on lies in others.

It is true that some Malaysians do dry their clothes off long bamboo poles hung outside windows. This is often seen in multi-storey flats. Economy of space is the reason here. Poles, cheap and easily available, can easily be taken in and out of windows say seven storeys up. A separate space need not be allocated for crowded clothes lines therefore. Anyway, that's what we do in our country. You will be hard put to find a Malaysian here doing likewise. The reasons are not there for us to do so. Indeed if we want to hand our clothes off windows, there is nothing wrong with that. Stop being so blind, economics determine a lot of what people may do in different countries and people in less developed countries will manage the best they can with what they can afford.

Your fear about Malaysians cooking putrid smelling food "at all hours" is built on a blatant lie. I will not bother to go into this therefore. The way you talk, I doubt if you have ever visited a Malaysian flat.

It must have been a strange one-week tour you took because you saw something which Malaysians have never seen - "drug addicts and prostitutes abound." I sure like to know where exactly you saw such a sight all over the country probably!

Defecating into rivers and fish ponds is not exactly carried out in the open as "worried students" suggested. You will be surrounded by four walls with a door in one of them - and the door can be hinged too, thank you! As for the fish, if they like what they are taking, what has that got to do with you? I assure you that the quality of the fish is no different. In any case, I am sure that there are no rivers or ponds in Khandallah where the staff of the High Commission can build a W.C. is there? Come to think of it, that sounds like a good idea - maybe the digging of a pond can be arranged!

Demonstrating students were violent with the police. Therefore all Kiwis are violent since the students are Kiwis. Man, one sure doesn't expect such logic from a university educated student. You have go a blind spot somewhere mate. You argue too that the students were protesting on a "pretext". The 'slums' you saw, "prostitutes and drug addicts abounding" seem to contradict what you say.

"Worried students", stop fearing for your cats and dogs. We make satay from chicken and pork.

I have just this to say as a concluding note. You probably have a wierd tourist guide if indeed you have been to Malaysia at all or else you saw only what you want to see. I sure hope that one day, your sympathy for your fellow men will well exceed the concern which you seem to show for your pel cats and dogs as well as your properties.

The world has great need for more love and understanding.