Outdoor bathing .... Should it be banned?

'Err, excuse me, your dressing upsets me!', is that what you want to hear from each and everyone who passes you, whenever you dress not according the the norm of the place? Come on? Is that what we want to hear the next time around?

What is an acceptable dressing code for occasions? Will a malay-malaysian dressing of pelikat, or batik sarong at any occasion is more acceptable to the chinese-malaysian dressing of choengsam / typical 'ah pek' short pants and singlets or indian-malaysian 'dhoti' or 'saris' be acceptable to all? What about the current craze of normal malaysian in short pants for every occasions is acceptable to all?

No, it doesn't!

A malay-malaysian who observes the teaching of Islam would definitely insists on each and every muslim to cover his 'aurat' at all times, but he/she can't definitely say anything if a non-believer wishes to dress otherwise. The same should be expected of each and every other Malaysian. To each is his own, but to a certain accepted code.

Who fixes this acceptable codes then? Society? Constitution or law?


Neighbours unhappy with outdoor bathing

The Star Online > Nation

Monday July 4, 2005
Neighbours unhappy with outdoor bathing

RESIDENTS in Taman Megaria, Johor Baru, have complained about feeling uneasy over a group of foreign workers who have taken to bathing in their underwear in their house compound, China Press reported.

According to a resident known as Chen, the workers would take baths in their house compound in the morning and evening.

“I'm just wondering why they can't bathe in the three bathrooms in that house,” she said, adding that the workers also spent their time sitting in the compound and staring at neighbours.

She said about 20 of them, aged between 20 and 40, moved into the house, which is believed to be their employer's, three months ago.

“I'm afraid this will send a wrong message to the children in the area,” said Chen, who brought the matter to Taman Megaria MCA branch chairman Ang Ah Ngo.

Ang said the employer had promised to tell his workers to stop taking their baths in the house compound.

“The workers are not deliberately creating uneasiness to the neighbours. This is just their habit,” he said.

Sin Chew Daily reported that a college student was allegedly raped by a man whom she met for the first time at a discotheque in Kuala Lumpur.

The man had allegedly gotten the 21-year-old student drunk before raping her at his house.

When the student woke up, she found out that she had been raped.

Police had identified the suspect and are investigating the case under Section 376 of the Penal Code.

Nanyang Siang Pau reported that Deputy Information Minister Datuk Donald Lim had urged Chinese guilds and associations to help the ministry train newsreaders who are proficient in the country's major dialects for RTM's Chinese radio station Ai FM.

He said they should also recommend newsreaders to the stations so that the news broadcast in Hokkein, Hakka, Teochew and Cantonese could continue.


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