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I ENJOYED reading about the new McLaren sports car in last week's GulfWeekly. Well done Bahrain for backing the project. Hence the local connection, is there any chance of the newspaper running a competition offering one as a prize? I'm sure you'd get lots of entries.

B. Channing,

Saar.

Editor's note: Should Santa bring me two, I'll happily offer one in a draw.

THE recent Business Weekly report about the new seat belt campaign made interesting reading. I wish GAC Bahrain every success in its endeavours to encourage people to wear them. It terrifies me watching children climbing around the passenger seats as the driver weaves in and out of traffic. When will the police starting stopping these irresponsible parents and fining them on the spot?

N. Beatty,

Budaiya.

THE Embassy of Malaysia is concerned by the increase of enquiries related to the status of visa on arrival (VOA) for passport holders of the Kingdom of Bahrain that travel to Malaysia.

The embassy would like to reiterate that there have been no changes on visa procedures for Gulf Co-operation Council member countries. Hence, all passport holders will still be granted VOA for a stay of three months, provided that they have six months validity on their passport and a return ticket.

Should there be further queries on the matter, kindly contact the Embassy of Malaysia on +973 17564551 or fax to +973 17564552.

Mohammed Shahafeez Shararis,

head of chancery,

Embassy of Malaysia

Kingdom of Bahrain.

SORRY for the direct approach. Just so that you hopefully continue to read on I am NOT after any money nor is this a scam of any sort. I just wanted to tell you about my unusual health condition and how I am hopefully raising awareness of it in a novel way.

Mal de Debarquement Syndrome - to give it it's full title (or MdDS) is a little known about and little understood condition whereby the sufferer still feels 'all at sea' once they have disembarked back onto dry land. Yes, weird I know! It can be triggered by any motion event.

This is the main symptom, but being a 'syndrome' there are many others tied up in the misery and mystery of MdDS. However, I will not take up any more of your time than I have to in describing them, suffice to say that many suffer with it for years (myself, nine years).

I work closely with the American (non-profit) MdDS Balance Disorder Foundation.

Research and awareness of the condition are woeful. Most of the information on treatment is sadly outdated now and most of the medical world is ignorant to it. So, hopefully with awareness of MdDS will come the research.

As I said we are always looking for new and novel ways to bring attention to this condition, and recently I was involved in a video, which shows how someone with the condition feels on a daily basis. The video can be viewed at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bJD9VgRw-A

Please consider viewing it, after all it's only four minutes long and a bit of fun (with no intention to offend!) that hopefully gets the message across.

Then I would ask you to forward it to everyone that you know. We need this video to go global and educate the world to MdDS in the process.

Thank you.

Jane Houghton,

By email