To be Fair

A letterbox left unchecked for a week is expected to be choked with discount vouchers, junk mails, and usual monthly stataments from Tenaga to Alam Flora. But the last I expect is a mailer from CSI with the tagline "Protect your Baby" printed loudly across the brochure.

Hold your breadth for this CSI has nothing to do with the criminal thriller that makes cat aunty glued to TV 7 x 24. It stands for CellSafe International, a high tech biotech service specialist which is promoting the storing of cord blood stem-cells of newborn babies amongst expecting parents. It claims that it is the leading stem cells presevation company in Malaysia with the latest state-of-art technology and facility situated at a strategic location none other than North Point of Mid Valley. It went on to explain the storage of stem cells from cord blood can be potentially life-saving for your child, as his stem cells can be accessed at a later date when needed to provide therapeutic treatments available currenyl and in the future.

My mind is blown away. Here I am, with BBC beaming across my living room a debate on the latest controversy of an teacher in UK wearing a veil. Right down my alley is a stem cell research lab. Anwar is going to run in the next election. George Bush is being compared to Hitler. The world is changing right under my nose.

At least one thing is for sure, I am now assured that my little sister's career in life science is a promising one. Time to wipe off the dust on the book cover Genome by Matt Ridley and give it a thorough read. I never managed to flip past chapter 1.....