*currently having runny nose due to the hazey condition*

Here are some tips to avoid diseases from the haze:

1. Masks need to be used by all motorcyclists, outdoor workers,those who are exposed to dusty places and those who are in the high-risk group.

2. The public is advised to stay indoors as much as possible.

3. Reduce outdoor activities.

4. Those who are in the high risk group (Children, Elderly, Smokers, Workers in open areas, those who have; Asthma, Bronchitis,Lungs inflammations, Chronic lungs problems, Heart and Allergy) are advised to continue medication as prescribed and take care of their health at all times.

5. The public is advised to wash their hands, face and bathe
regularly.

6. Those who are having cough, flu, asthma, eye irritation, chronic lung infection are required to go to the clinic as soon as possible if symptoms persists.

7. Those who are driving in an air-conditioned vehicle need to
start the air-conditioner and close all windows when driving.

8. The public is advised to drink as much water as possible at all
times.

9. Those who have children, elderly and relatives who are sick in
the house, please do not smoke.

10. Smokers are advised to stop smoking during hours where API is
higher than 101.

11. Those who are in the high risk category are advised to stay
indoors if API exceeds 201.

12. Please tune in to the radio, TV and major newspaper to get an
update on the haze conditions and heed the advice given by Ministry of Health and Department of Environment.

Jz read this in the mmu bulletin board. Later on someone gave me the link to the API (Air Pollutant Index) for all the states here. Well, the condition in melaka is bad enough, having the smokey white sky and blurry visibility. Yet, if we compare the condition here and those in Port Klang or Kuala Selangor, here's nothing. Over there, it's like going back to the time during 1997, when the air pollution was so bad. Click here for pics.Many schools in KL area were shut down for today and tomorrow and this includes Cyber campus as well. For more info read this.

Why the hell this happen to us? Why can't the indonesian government do sth about this annual occurrence? It's damn stupid jz apologizing every year and not doing anything to stop the recurrance. If the excuse is about money, it's lame. I seriously dun think that indonesians are so poor that they can't afford to put off the fire. Hey, wait, why do they burn the forest in the first place? Is it for the sake of agriculture? so that they can have fertilized land to plan their potatos? then why can't they seek a better way of doing it? We dun mind you being poor and having so much racism problem as long as we are not affected over here. but No... you have to cross the line, or perhaps i should say you have to cross the straits and give us this haze siege every year.

ASEAN should really look into this matter and provide good solutions, for our 'caring' neighbour's forest burning is getting from bad to worse. Why does the damn humans only care for their own selfish, short-term gains when the consequences are so obviously bad for others, as well as themselves in the present and future? The earth is already polluted enough! Maybe talking about saving the earth is too much for us puny humans. let's narrow down to our own place. Everywhere is too, polluted, in terms of air, water and others. you see rubbish everywhere, air filled with smoke and other dangerous gases, water only drinkable after being filtered so many times. At this rate of destruction, we are jz digging our own graves, at a faster rate.

Maybe it's not obvious enough, for those ppl have their eyes plastered with $$ and being 6 feet under was such a far away thought, which might not even occur to some ppl. They shunt off all the possibilities that they are in hazardous situations and their family and ppl they care will not be affected at all, because they are going to be rich. why do they even bother after they got all the capital they ever wanted? This is hopeless. Maybe it's better for earth to have only plants and animals...

Anyway, going to get a mask later for outdoors activity...

*edit* here's the newest API :click me:. sorry if i sounded kinda anguish up there.. was very tension cos jz finish my field theory, which i think i flung, and supposedly got test at sat. But then due to the haze, the test was postpone. hehe... at least sth good from the bad condition.. *sweat*