It’s incorrect to take someone’s life

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department has called for the abolishment of death penalty as he was in the opinion that it’s incorrect to take someone’s life. He is probably right as the justice system may not be perfect and there could be possibilities that death penalty be handed down to innocent people.

Many months ago the government of Taiwan had also called for the abolishment of death penalty but it was strongly opposed by certain quarters. Bai Bing-Bing was one of the Taiwanese artists opposed strongly to the proposal by the Taiwanese government to abolish death penalty. The poor lady lost her only daughter who was murdered by the kidnappers. The cruel kidnappers cut the finger of the poor little girl and sent it to her mother demanding ransom. Bai Bing-Bing had said that she would never forgive the kidnappers and cursed that these people rot in hell. For money, some people can even kill a small little girl, and who are they to have the right to take away other’s lives?

Death penalty serves little purpose to deter serious crime such as murder or drug trafficking as such things happen everywhere, with or without death penalty. But if someone has killed somebody else intentionally, then his or her life should also be taken away through a fair trial otherwise, there will be no justice in this world, as some people simply do not value life. Two days ago, a security guard murdered two of his colleagues simply because of a small argument and today, a homemade bomb which was intentionally placed in front of an apartment in Cheras killed one lady and injuring a few others. Thousands of lives killed by the 911 terrorists and do they deserve only life imprisonment or something more justifiable?

Zero tolerance to racist remarks

Well done, Mr. Prime Minister for your affirmation on “the government will not tolerate anyone making racist remarks”. The case of the head mistress uttering racist remarks to the students warrant us to look into this seriously, as the school is none other than the institution to not only educating our future generations, to equip them with all necessary knowledge and skills so that they could face the world when they are adults but more importantly, it is the place to cultivate racial harmony by learning to accept each other despite of different races and religions. That’s crucial as to most of us, school is the first place we come into contact with our friends from other races and it is when we started to learn how to live harmoniously with our friends from different races. To this regards, the teachers have to set a good example. If the teachers are also racists, how could the younger generations be educated to accept each other despite of their different background?

Racism is nothing new to mankind as it happens all over the world from then till now. Even the same clan may also have conflicts that could lead to major confrontation. That’s human. But Malaysia is a peaceful country as a whole, despite of multi-racial and different religions, this is a country that can accept each other even though we are different. But if someone comes and tell you that if you don’t like here then you should go back to the place that your ancestors originated, that’s simply too shallow-minded and worst still if the teachers are saying such things. It is not easy to be a teacher nowadays as discipline of the students is getting from worst to bad. The younger generations are well exposed nowadays as modern technologies and better living environments have made them becoming little smart alec, forgetting how to respect their teachers or older people. Just look at the 3 idiots splashing paint at a surau in Seremban. Can this be a racial issue or is it just a vandalism?

Following the affirmation of the Prime Minister, the government should act justly on anyone who makes racist remarks, be it civil servants or politicians from the government or opposition. But if the government is using its machinery to get rid of the opposition in the name of racism, it will breed more hatred and doing nothing good in enhancing racial harmony.

Lackadaisical assault team.....

I guess I’ve seen too much of these Hollywood movies as I always perceived the SWAT team of any country can swiftly turn off any probable security threats, dangerous or violent situations. I was dead wrong, as the Philippines’ SWAT team was so amateur in their handling of the hostage siege leading to the death of 8 Hong Kong tourists.

Remember "Bad Boys" the movie, where detectives Will smith and Martin Lawrence evaded so swiftly into the hideout of the drug kingpin to rescue the hostage? Very impressive isn’t it? But it will never happen in reality especially if the police themselves are so corrupted. You think they will risk their lives to save yours? Come on, think it over again. To many of us, our impression of the blue shirt is that when they were wearing white shirts waving you to slow down, and stop you at a road side asking you whether you know you are committing traffic offences and asking you whether you need any special help.

Even the Philippines Police admitted their assault team was inadequately trained, armed and led. What the fuck, you don’t say this after 8 foreign tourists were killed, after one of your sacked cop turned amok with an M-16 and after your top cops acted so lackadaisically. You should have said this before ANYTHING HAPPEN, before it was too late. I guess the terrorists in Philippines’ are better trained and equipped than their Police as their best of the best didn’t even know how to break through the windows of hostage bus or the sniper can’t even finish off the gunman when there were ample opportunities. For the past many years, too many incidents of Chinese businessmen being kidnapped and some hostages were brutally killed, and it was said that some cases had the involvement of corrupted Police.

As we are mourning for the unfortunate people who were killed by an amok cop in the capital city of Philippines, we too have to bear in mind that if our cops are corrupted, the whole nation will also be in serious threat, like a time bomb awaiting to explode.

Come on-lar Counsel, you can do better than this

Many years ago a friend of mine attended a job interview and he was so annoyed with the arrogant interviewers, he stood up, fucked off the interviewers before they could even start up the interview and walked off. When he told me the story I laughed like mad. The interviewers were boosting themselves, criticizing our local universities produced low class graduates like my friend. These interviewers who were overseas graduates acted so proudly as though they were so superior to local grads like us.

My friend, the forever quick temper but righteous guy, gave these ang-mo-sai a good lesson; he told them off; if their foreign education were so good, why bother coming back to Malaysia, earning a meager salary? They should have stay put in US and earn big money, after all their parents could have spent a few hundred thousand to send them oversea, is it worth to come back here to earn a few thousands a month? A local grad also can earn that much salary, so to speak.

There is an old Chinese proverb “50 steps laughing at 100 steps”, which originated form a story in ancient war time, a soldier from a defeated side who ran for his life but laughed at another soldier who ran 50 more steps ahead of him. The moral of the story, why laughing at the other if we are also so-so only?

Just like the counsel of MACC who questioned the credibility and qualification of Dr Pornthip, asking her whether she aware that her university was not recognized by the Malaysian government and thus her qualification was questionable, to which Dr Pornthip countered with much self-esteem, "I do not know if my university is recognised here. But I know that it is one of the top five universities in Asia. You should not look down on Asians" The knee-jerk and such appropriate reply immediately silenced that idiotic counsel but garnered lots of cheers and supports from the courtroom.

Baby dumping is attempted murder

Come to think of it, human is worst than animals. At the very least, even stray dogs in hunger also know how to take care of their puppies but the increase in baby dumping of late proves that our younger generations have lost their conscience as they resort to kill their own babies to solve their problems. They have lost the judgment of intellect to distinguish right from wrong.

As to-date, 60 cases of baby dumping have been reported by the Police as compared to 79 cases for the whole last year and despite all initiatives taken by the government, there are people simply unwary about pre-marital sex and pregnancy, putting their own enjoyment above responsibility. At the very least, teenagers should know how to practice safe sex if their desires are too strong beyond their young age, that probably will prevent the whole lots of the problem. Come on, condoms are easily available nowadays.

Education and religion teachings seem unable to lead the missing punks into the right direction and thus problems breed more problems. As all the welfare measures taken by the government are not good enough to prevent the incident of baby dumping, it seems that the only way out is to send the couple involved to the jail so that they would not fuck around and then throwing their newborns into the dustbins or toilets to let innocent babies die. Hopefully when those guilty fellas are released from the jail, they will be old enough to regain conscience and not repeating the inhumane acts.

Pua gets a bullet

Sometimes we have to keep our mouth shut even though we know that our bosses may be talking non-sense, just keeping mum and you can get over it, another peace day although you may not be happy but that will make your life relatively trouble free so to speak. Because we are living in the world that not all people can accept criticisms, be it constructive one or otherwise, so long that it is a critic.

MP Pua is merely calling for the abolishment of the bumiputra discount for houses costing more than RM500,000 and commercial property costing more than RM2mil, and for that he gets a bullet suggesting he should better keep his mouth shut or otherwise his family members may be harmed.

For ordinary people like you and me, if we talk too much not to our bosses liking, probably we won’t get good bonus or a pay rise or at the worst case scenario, no promotion for your whole career but for MP Pua, his life and family members are threatened, merely over a suggestion affecting a minority group of rich people.

It is now up to the Police to investigate who are the culprits, but I doubt the blue shirts will seriously look into this.

Suicide note so late?

The inquest into the death of Teoh Beng Hock has been dragged on for almost one year and now only the Public Prosecutor produce the new evidence, the so-called “suicide note” by the decease. The Public Prosecutor are just wasting the public fund and manipulating the emotions of the family members and friends of the late TBH. If the suicide note was genuine then it should have been submitted by the police by October last year when it was reportedly found and the whole episode of this high profile inquest can be avoided.

Don’t forget, the inquest was initiated as ordered by the Prime Minister after meeting up with the decease family, promising them a fair trial. Are the Public Prosecutor and the investigating officers intending to bluff the whole nation and also the Prime Minister as well?

Why now only the Public Prosecutor introduce the suicide note as a new evidence knowing that if the suicide note was authentic, it will prove beyond doubt that the death of TBH didn’t possess any criminal elements and the inquest can be avoided from the very beginning, saving all the torturing moments the family members of TBH have to endure.

The introduction of the “suicide note” at the eleventh hour of the inquest is proving one thing, either the Public Prosecutors have their hidden agenda to manipulate the inquest or they are simply unprofessional. It is better for the purported “suicide note” to be authentic, otherwise someone’s head must roll for fabricating evidence. The latest twist in the TBH inquest will surely make us cast a serious doubt on the credibility on the judiciary system.

When a pawn advances

Many years ago, my ex colleague told me at a beer session at our club house that he broke the record of the company of being transferred 5 times in a year until his youngest daughter complained to him dejectedly that she couldn’t even manage to settle down in her new school, making new friends then she had to start all over again. His whole family was affected as all along, he brought his family with him no matter where he was posted to, no matter how remote the estates were.

For a person working in the plantation industry, transfer is a norm although nobody actually enjoying it. My friend told me that he fully aware of the ulterior motive of the company transferring him so many times in a year was just to get rid of him. He stood his ground firm until he got a new job then he left. That was the predicament of a planter, if the company doesn’t like a person for whatsoever reason, they will get you transfer many times in a year, making your life miserable until you get fed up and leave the company on your own, saving them the trouble of sacking somebody.

I got my transfer letter yesterday dated 27 July requesting me to report at Banting office on 1 August. I guess that’s not too bad as my colleague was given the same dateline to be transferred to Sarawak. If you are working as a wage earner, that’s how it is going to be.

I told my friends we are indifferent with the pawns on the chessboard being positioned here and there by the bosses for the sake of strategizing the company’s vision and mission or for whatsoever reasons. Hopefully, when the pawn advances to its eighth rank, he will get his deserving promotion.