Have been busy lately with several matters. We have had a flood of welfare cases everyday for the last 2 to 3 week; We have now processed somewhere close to 220 welfare cases of which we have spent slightly above RM100,000. This represents a good 50% of my annual allocated budget but this is a drop in the ocean on helping the poor, by my estimate my area has at least 1,000 hardcore poor families and another 10,000 families earning less than RM1,500; a month.
My welfare budget is now closed for the year. The remaining 50% of my budget is for associations and small projects. My office hadecided not to spend on any makan events (they costs too much and I cannot stomach the idea of blowing RM10,000 in 3 hours).
My office is also busy preparing for our newsletter, this will be out next week. I am also preparing for Parliament; reading up on policy ideas and also the Thomas Piketty book. Lastly, I have been summoned by the Selangor govt to testify on a hearing on the mining water pond issue.