Showing posts with label Weird Malaysia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weird Malaysia. Show all posts
Monday, November 5, 2012
Chloramphenicol in chicken, English dailies do not name the company.
Read it in newspapers today. On 1st of November, Sarawak state veterinary department banned the import of Ayamas products into Sarawak, including whole chickens, nuggets, chicken sausages,chicken meatball, and burger patties, because Ayamas products were found to contain Chloramphenicol. As of the news on 4th November, 2012, the Ayamas products are still available in supermakets in Kuching. And Health Minister Liow Chong Lai said his department is still awaiting the laboratory test report; but the allegedly contaminated batch of products had been taken off the shelves, as an act of precaution.
According to the newspapers, chloramphenicol is a kind of antibiotic, could cause vomitting, diarrhoea and headache.
Ayamas is a local food product company, a member of QSR Brands Bhd, alongside KFC Malaysia and Pizza Hut Malaysia. Ayamas mainly marketing chilled/frozen whole chicken and chicken parts, chicken based pre-processed foods.
The Chinese dailies reported the name of the company, Ayamas, but the English dailies chose to omit the name of the company in this case. This is the opposite of the usual practice of newspapers. Usually when it comes to something like a scandal or robbery kind of news, the Chinese dailies always omit the names of the company in their reports, and the English dailies always report the names of those companies in the papers.
But in the case of Ayamas products were found to contain chloramphenicol, English dailies chose to omit the name of the company, just mentioned chicken marketed by a certain company is alleged to contain chloramphenicol, reporting in a really ambigious, anyone could be or not be it kind of way. One has to wonder why? I have some speculations, but I have no way to find out more or verify anything, so all I can do is ask WHY?
在今天的報紙上看到金鳳凰的產品在砂朥越被查出有氯霉素，砂朥越獸醫局已經禁止金鳳凰的產品進入砂朥越。衛生部長彥中萊則說衛生部正在等化驗報告出來。
金鳯凰 是QSR Bradns Bhd 旗下的一家子公司，業務主要是冷藏或冷凍全雞，冷藏或冷凍雞塊，和加工過的雞肉食品。
根據報紙的報導，氯霉素是一種抗生素，會引起嘔吐，腹瀉和頭痛。
奇怪的是在這件事上，中文報章直接的登出金鳳凰的產品在砂朥越被查出有問題，而英文報章則只含糊的報導說有家公司販售的雞被指含有氯霉素。
通常在類似的新聞中，中文報章都不會把公司的名稱登出來的，而英名報章則通常會把公司名稱登出來。可是在金鳯凰的產品被查出含有氯霉素的新聞，作法相反了，英文報章不登出公司名稱，而中文報章則登出來。有人知道這是甚麽原因嗎？
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Only Oriental Daily mentioned it 東方日報才有提到
I came across a column in Oriental Daily(東方日報) by Young Ai Ling(楊艾琳 I use onamotopeia here, as I had no idea who she is, and her picture on her column shows the writer is a woman), in Oriental Daily. She wrote about one evening, sitting in the balcony of a long-house in Sarawak, and someone in the long house turned on a radio, the sound of sape came out, like a hornbill flying pass.
The radio is a you-do-not-see-them-in-electrical-appliance-anymore kind of shortwave radio, and a small one, but it is the hope of the natives: the hope of getting out of poverty, the hope of getting education, the hope of not being evicted from their land. Each evening from 6pm to 8pm, the natives received the news from outside through shortwave radio. In the neglected region of Malaysia where there is no electricity supply, telecommunication, and internet, all long-houses turn on their shortwave radio, tune in to the same shortwave frequency during this 2 hours.
She is referring to Radio Free Sarawak station. I do not know for sure if the station actually got a license to broadcast, or otherwise. But I am pretty sure Malaysian government does not like this station.
This station is in Bahasa Malaysia(Malaysian standardized version of Malay) and dialects of Sarawakian natives, broadcast only news, and talk-show, call-ins. And all of them mostly centred around the Murum dams, how the natives are dislocated from the very land they rely on for their livelihood, and the court-cases about the native land, all the kind of issues we do not see and hear on the news aired by Astro, RTM, TV3, NTV7, 8TV, TV9. Google "Radio Free Sarawak" and you will get the website for the online edition, podcasts available for download.
It is sad that theSarawakian natives have to fight so hard for their plights to be heard, even in the age of information super-highway. Only in Malaysia. Please show your support for them, anyway you can.
A hind-sight: It is while writing this post, that I realised that the columnist did not specifily mention she was in Sarawak, but only mentioned hornbill, sape, East Malaysia, Murum. So only Sarawakians can recognise what she was writing. From my experience of living in Malay Peninsula, I am certain almost all the Peninsular Malaysians do not get her points, as they actually have a hard time understanding which part of Malaysia she was referring to. Why did she write in such an obscure manner?
A side note:
Among all the Chinese dailies I can find in Klang Valley, only Oriental Daily has a column concerning natives of Sarawak. I suspect this is due to the following 3 reasons:
1. The daily is backed by a conglomorate from Sarawak, so somehow the daily gives Sarawak just that little bit more attention.
2. The backer of daily is at odds with the man controlling Sin Chew daily and her sister dailies.
(Don't just take my word for it, just dig a little into the past: back in 2003A.D., when Oriental Daily first launched in Klang Valley, Sin Chew daily and her sister dailies fought a dirty war with Oriental Daily. Read carefully here, not dirty campaign, but dirty war, as both camps used really low and dirty tactics in the war. The camp of Sin Chew actually banned newspaper-stand and newspaper peddlars from selling Oriental Daily, among other things, the most hilarious part was both camps accused each other of burning the opponent's newspaper. Yes, Sin Chew camp won, but not without injuring herself. I could never look at those editors the same way again.)
3. The daily has a very low market penetrate rate, it is free to pick up in Jaya Jusco(Oo, sorry, now the offical name is Aeon), and other places from Monday to Friday, though some newspaper-stands and 7-11 do carry this daily, 365 days a years, available for RM1.00 per copy; so it had to be different from Sin Chew and her sister dailies.
我在東方日報看到楊艾琳的專欄:<<楊城藍井>>。（谷歌一下就看到了）
楊小姐在專欄中說到，在長屋中聴到原住民收聴電台。這電台指的是 Radio Free Sarawak（谷歌一下就看到了，可以下載），這是原住民自己辦的，有沒牌照我可不知道，原天傍晚6pm到8pm播出兩小時，內容是新聞，清談和叩應，語言用馬來西亞國語和砂朥越原住民的語言。
長屋中收聴電台用的是現今在電器店已經找不到的短波收音機。在砂朥越的內陸，還是有許多地方沒有電力廠的供電，沒電訊網絡，小小的一台短波收音機，帶給原住民的是希望：保障他們本身權益的希望。Free Sarawak的內容都是原住民設路障阻止興建沐若水壩，原住民習俗地的訴訟這些事件的最新消息，尤其是受到影響的原住民的悲情心聲，這些我們在Astro, RTM, TV3, NTV7, 8TV, TV9 的新聞中是看聴不到的。悲哀的是在網絡時代，砂朥越的原住民要這麽辛苦才能把本身的辛酸傳出去。
只在馬來西亞。
Monday, October 15, 2012
Big Corporations Are Always Arrogant In Malaysia, Because They Can
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuWxslz7-LQ&feature=related
Found the above video on youtube recently, Singaporean television news reported that KFC had issued a public statement in respond to the 2 videos below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgHSZQhP630
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4V2NmteNTM&feature=endscreen&NR=1
According to the video footage from Singaporean television news, the 2 videos showing the gross side inside the KFC kitchen in Malaysia are old videos, but resurfaced, and KFC had made it public that the personnels invovled are sacked when the videos were known the first time, and KFC had installed cameras in all the kitchens since then.
Was there ever a public statement from KFC, or just on youtube, as video response to the 2 gross-side-inside-the-KFC-kitchen videos? Because I simply cannot recall ever read about the supposed public statement, much less seen it on television news, or paid advertisement. After googling, I got a zero result about the public statement in any news from Malaysia, only the videos from youtube. So even Singaporean television news had sort of beautified this episode in KFC Malaysia, while it did report that the power of youtube is not to be ignored.
And looking at the video response from KFC, it just shows that KFC is being arrogant, nothing else. It is such a big corporation, it can afford to be arrogant, in Malaysia.
I am just happy that I had decided to give up deep-fried foods; except the oven-fried foods I made myself; but they cannot be called deep-fried, they are oven-fried.
A side note:
丹斯里郭鹤尧 Tan Sri Kuek Ho Yao passed away on 13 Oct, 2012, aged 96.
He was an important figure in Chinese independent secondary school circle in Johor, Malaysia, just google his name and you will get a lot of newspaper posting obituaries for him online, so I am not going to write an obituary here, just wanted to say his passing away is the end of an era.
Found the above video on youtube recently, Singaporean television news reported that KFC had issued a public statement in respond to the 2 videos below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgHSZQhP630
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4V2NmteNTM&feature=endscreen&NR=1
According to the video footage from Singaporean television news, the 2 videos showing the gross side inside the KFC kitchen in Malaysia are old videos, but resurfaced, and KFC had made it public that the personnels invovled are sacked when the videos were known the first time, and KFC had installed cameras in all the kitchens since then.
Was there ever a public statement from KFC, or just on youtube, as video response to the 2 gross-side-inside-the-KFC-kitchen videos? Because I simply cannot recall ever read about the supposed public statement, much less seen it on television news, or paid advertisement. After googling, I got a zero result about the public statement in any news from Malaysia, only the videos from youtube. So even Singaporean television news had sort of beautified this episode in KFC Malaysia, while it did report that the power of youtube is not to be ignored.
And looking at the video response from KFC, it just shows that KFC is being arrogant, nothing else. It is such a big corporation, it can afford to be arrogant, in Malaysia.
I am just happy that I had decided to give up deep-fried foods; except the oven-fried foods I made myself; but they cannot be called deep-fried, they are oven-fried.
A side note:
丹斯里郭鹤尧 Tan Sri Kuek Ho Yao passed away on 13 Oct, 2012, aged 96.
He was an important figure in Chinese independent secondary school circle in Johor, Malaysia, just google his name and you will get a lot of newspaper posting obituaries for him online, so I am not going to write an obituary here, just wanted to say his passing away is the end of an era.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Dong Zong and MCA and Nazri
Dong
Zong and MCA and Nazri
On
26 Sept, 2012, the Minister in Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri
Nazri Abdul Aziz actually received the memorandum on behalf of Najib
from five representatives of Dong Zong, led by its chairman Yap Sin
Tian and vice-chairman Chow Siew Hon, at Parliament, in front of the
press.
What
is going on here? In front of the media, while receiving the
memorandum, Nazri actually said something that sounds like supporting
the cause of the of Dong Zong. According to theSun Daily (Malaysia,
thesundaliy.my), Nazri actually said, “It is not wrong … We
should not have any narrow views about them.”
Shudders,
the moment I read this, and more shudders after I gave it a lot of
thoughts.
For
years Dong Zong, along with the Chinese community in Peninsular
Malaysia have been campaigning to have an Independent Chinese
Secondary School in Kuantan. And this years, out of the blue, the
government gave a letter of approval for an Independent Chinese
Secondary School in Kuantan. Rejoice! This is a generous gift from BN
government, all Chinese in Malaysia are eternally in debt to BN for
it and should be grateful for the rest of the eternity. And remember
to vote for MCA in the coming General Election, for this is the fruit
of the hard labour of the brave, selfless, relentless MCA ,
especially the Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Wee Kai Siong,
through his position in the cabinet; and THIS can only be achieved if
the BN is in power.
Really?
Show us the letter of approval, we want to see the details and fine
prints, as we have learned from years of broken promises and deceits,
especially from MCA. Bizarrely this time around, only Yap Sin Tian
and Chow Siew Hon showed the mistrust by keep asking for the
publicize of the letter of approval, while the columnists and
reporters in Chinese news media, and the other factions in Dong Zong
and Chinese communities are singing the same tune as MCA, that the
letter of approval really granted a new Independent Chinese Secondary
School to Kuantan. The people from Kuantan even said it publicly that
they had personally read the letter of approval, there is absolute no
problem.
After
a few weeks of quibbling on the media, and internet, suddenly all
Chinese newspaper published this news:
The
letter of approval was posted on a blog, and according to the scanned
copy of the letter of approval on that blog, the school to be set up
in Kuantan must be conducted in Bahasa Malaysia(the official language
of Malaysia, the Malay standardized by Malaysian government).
MCA
came out to say that the details of the letter of approval is
irrelevant, it is an Independent Chinese Secondary School, as long as MCA say
so.
Naturally
more quibbling followed, and then some group tries to topple Yap and
Chow from Dong Zong (which is still not settled yet on 29 Sept, 2012), and naturally even more quibbling followed, leading to the point of Dong
Zong placing advertisement in Chinese newspapers, calling for a
gathering on Sept 26, to force Datuk Dr Wee to resign and to save the
Chinese schools, and it ended with the “event” mentioned at the
beginning of this post.
According
to theSun, in the memorandum, Dong Zong made 8 demands to the Prime
Minister. And according to the Chinese newspapers, Dong Zong made 8
pleas to the Prime Minister. Anyway, they are just the same 8 issues
the Chinese Malaysian have been campaigning for years to be resolved,
and they are actually just touching on the same old issues Chinese have been campaigning, lots of other issues either written or unwritten in
the advertisement in the Chinese newspaper are missing, especially the call to force Datuk Dr Wee to resign. Typically
Chinese behaviour.
Nazri
actually showed some kind of support for Dong Zong. This is scary.
Over the years, especially during the reign of Dr M, whenever Chinese
communities said anything about setting up more Chinese school,
sufficient number of teachers for Chinese schools, and all the other
long standing issues, UMNO will come out to scold them, intimidating them, with MCA
tagging behind, intimidating the people they are supposed to be
representing/protecting.
Now
Nazri, an important figure in UMNO, actually showed support for Dong
Zong? I know Malaysia is bound by law to held General Election before
mid 2013, and the suspense of when the parliament is going to be
resolved is killing the politicians, those in the government offices
and the opposition alike. But Nazri? What are they going to do to
Chinese Malaysian after the General Election? Kill all of them? In 2007/2008,
just a few months befoe the election, during the General Meeting of
UMNO, they actually lifted up keris, as a war-cry statement.
Officially that was not a war-cry, but everyone who saw it on the
news knew the true meaning of it. So Malaysian Chinese, especially
those in Dong Zong, remember the keris, and have nightmares after
Nazri received your memorandum, they are not going to forgive you for
making Nazri making this kind of statement. As for MCA? They can just
jump into South China Sea and swim their way back to China, as their
master UMNO had been telling them to do all these years.
Nazri
showed support for Dong Zong? Shudders.
Monday, September 10, 2012
She was handcuffed because it was a standard procedure
A teenage girl, who the government alleged was caught on tape while displaying indecent behavior to the picture of One Najib, on the eve of Merdeka Day.
She turned herself in to the police, and was handcuffed, and the news-photographers were informed to take the picture of her in handcuffs.
Now the question is, handcuffed? A lot of criminals are not handcuffed publicly. Yes, I mean criminals, like robbers, rapists, they are actually not handcuffed by police in the public, and the photos were all over newspapers.
And now a minister actually said the girl was handcuffed because that is the standard police procedure. Huh? Then why those criminals were shown publicly not handcuffed?
It's like the Chinese, the character GUAN(官) has two mouths in it. The government can always say whatever they want to say, have multiple standards over the same kind of matter, and the same law.
Just look at the recent events, so many people, who openly proclaimed themselves to the members or supporters of UMNO and BN, insulting the pictures of Lim Guan Eng, and others who are not part of BN, are they even rebuffed in the public? No, police never say or do anything to them. Now, that's double standard.
Handcuffed a teenage girl and showcased it to the public over what is nothing more than a trivia issue, only in Malaysia.
She turned herself in to the police, and was handcuffed, and the news-photographers were informed to take the picture of her in handcuffs.
Now the question is, handcuffed? A lot of criminals are not handcuffed publicly. Yes, I mean criminals, like robbers, rapists, they are actually not handcuffed by police in the public, and the photos were all over newspapers.
And now a minister actually said the girl was handcuffed because that is the standard police procedure. Huh? Then why those criminals were shown publicly not handcuffed?
It's like the Chinese, the character GUAN(官) has two mouths in it. The government can always say whatever they want to say, have multiple standards over the same kind of matter, and the same law.
Just look at the recent events, so many people, who openly proclaimed themselves to the members or supporters of UMNO and BN, insulting the pictures of Lim Guan Eng, and others who are not part of BN, are they even rebuffed in the public? No, police never say or do anything to them. Now, that's double standard.
Handcuffed a teenage girl and showcased it to the public over what is nothing more than a trivia issue, only in Malaysia.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
What was that all about?
I read a column in the Sun(Malaysia) this week. And that columnist, while supposing to be writing a satirical column, took the matter to a bizarre level this week.
In his column this week, he wrote about how the Japanese are obsessed with the politeness that bowing is a reflex in their daily life. OK, I got that. But then he went on to say that so escalator rides are dangerous because of that, because accidents happened due to people bowing on moving escalators. Huh? Did we ever read/hear about any news like that? Get real.It is one thing to make fun of journalists from US who think that US is the center of everything and people just live their lives around every little thing that happens in US (he wrote about that in the last US president election year), but to exaggerate the local decorum of a foreign nation into something that is the main cause of accidents, is he a real journalist? Like people actually fell down escalator because of bowing? Did he even did any research? I googled and found no old news story like that, ever. He is working for a real newspaper (by Malaysian standard), certainly he can do a better research on the matter than me. So did he offer any case in point? No. The whole piece reads like he was just making fun of the decorum of a foreign nation that he most likely never visited, or even watched any nation tourism/image promotional tv programmes from that country. What is wrong with that man?
In his column this week, he wrote about how the Japanese are obsessed with the politeness that bowing is a reflex in their daily life. OK, I got that. But then he went on to say that so escalator rides are dangerous because of that, because accidents happened due to people bowing on moving escalators. Huh? Did we ever read/hear about any news like that? Get real.It is one thing to make fun of journalists from US who think that US is the center of everything and people just live their lives around every little thing that happens in US (he wrote about that in the last US president election year), but to exaggerate the local decorum of a foreign nation into something that is the main cause of accidents, is he a real journalist? Like people actually fell down escalator because of bowing? Did he even did any research? I googled and found no old news story like that, ever. He is working for a real newspaper (by Malaysian standard), certainly he can do a better research on the matter than me. So did he offer any case in point? No. The whole piece reads like he was just making fun of the decorum of a foreign nation that he most likely never visited, or even watched any nation tourism/image promotional tv programmes from that country. What is wrong with that man?
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Smokey white day again!
It is white again. Looking out from where I live, the air is white. Yes, the air is white, smokey white. It had been like these for days. Actually since late June this year, we should consider ourselves lucky, at least this is not an all year round thing this year.
What am I going on about? The 'HAZE' in the air over Peninsular Malaysia. I have no idea what it is like in East Malaysia, as I do not get anything about that from the news. And we all know what we got from the news is really limited.
What is 'HAZE'? It is the smoke from the burning forest in Indonesia. Now even the Singaporean bureau of weather had limited public access to their website, to keep their satellite photos from being viewed by unwelcomed parties.
In the news, the thick, white smoke in the air is called 'HAZE', it is wrong to call it smoke, because according to who or what? it is not smoke.
And what a caring government and news media we have in Malaysia, on tv they are calling people to drink lots of water, reduce the outdoor activities, etc., etc..
We know, we have years of experience. We are not even allowed to call smoke for what it is 'SMOKE'. Only in Malaysia.
What am I going on about? The 'HAZE' in the air over Peninsular Malaysia. I have no idea what it is like in East Malaysia, as I do not get anything about that from the news. And we all know what we got from the news is really limited.
What is 'HAZE'? It is the smoke from the burning forest in Indonesia. Now even the Singaporean bureau of weather had limited public access to their website, to keep their satellite photos from being viewed by unwelcomed parties.
In the news, the thick, white smoke in the air is called 'HAZE', it is wrong to call it smoke, because according to who or what? it is not smoke.
And what a caring government and news media we have in Malaysia, on tv they are calling people to drink lots of water, reduce the outdoor activities, etc., etc..
We know, we have years of experience. We are not even allowed to call smoke for what it is 'SMOKE'. Only in Malaysia.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Robbed twice in 7 hours
Yes, you are reading it right. A family in Kepong were robbed twice in 7 hours. I just saw this on the tv news. My search on youtube has nothing about this yet. Just like last week, Kepong residents came out to say that a lot of robberies had happened lately, and now this case in Kepong, again. What is the police going to say? Tell the public this is a false perception only? That the media is exaggerating? or even fabricating? I actually have a feeling that police is going to place a gag order on the media soon.
The government can keep on telling all the tourists, Malaysian citizens and residents that this is only a false perception, created by the media. But the victims of crimes know better.
Only in Malaysia.
剛在電視新聞看到，在甲洞有一家人在７小時內被搶刼兩次。又是甲洞。上星期甲洞的居民冒險上電視說出親身被打刼的驚心經歷，現在又有人被打刼。警方又要說只是假像？只是親聞媒體在誇大？我覺得警方快要命令新聞媒體不再報導搶刼案了。
The government can keep on telling all the tourists, Malaysian citizens and residents that this is only a false perception, created by the media. But the victims of crimes know better.
Only in Malaysia.
剛在電視新聞看到，在甲洞有一家人在７小時內被搶刼兩次。又是甲洞。上星期甲洞的居民冒險上電視說出親身被打刼的驚心經歷，現在又有人被打刼。警方又要說只是假像？只是親聞媒體在誇大？我覺得警方快要命令新聞媒體不再報導搶刼案了。
Monday, July 23, 2012
20 ROBBERIES IN ONE MONTH
甲洞區向來是罪案黑區，現在當地居民忍無可忍，昨晚上電視新聞說在過去的一個月內，在同一區發生了２０宗入門搶刼案。勇敢的上電視說親身經歷的受害人，一名家庭主婦說：上星期她和女兒在家，屋內開著燈，搶匪也企圖破門入內，她女兒以手機打電話報警，她本身在屋內大喊，鄰居也大喊，才總算把搶匪嚇走。
這主婦真的很勇敢。警方三星期前公開說馬來西亞很安全，罪案率一直在下降；全是因爲媒體注重報導負面新聞，大肆報導任何罪案，才會令人有馬來西亞的罪案率很高的負面印象。
一個月內有20 起搶刼案，警方會不會說那只是那主婦的個人印象？
Kepong area of Kuala Lumpur City is always known as the "BLACK ZONE" when it comes to crime rate. Last night, the residents of Kepong said it on 8pm TV news, that 20 robberies had happened in Kepong over the past one month period.
A local resident, a home-maker, said it on the news, that last week, while she and her daughter was at home, robbers tried to force their way into her house. She screamed, and neighbours screamed, her daughtered tried to call police on her mobile phone, at last the robbers ran off. She is really brave to come out to say this.
Three weeks ago, police just said that Malaysia is really safe, crime rate is dropping, it is all the false perception created by the media by focusing on reporting negatives matters, like crimes.
20 robberies in one month in the same area, what will the police say to that? Will the police say that it is all the home-maker's personal false perception?
NOTE TO SELF: After a spell of sickness, finally I am back.
這主婦真的很勇敢。警方三星期前公開說馬來西亞很安全，罪案率一直在下降；全是因爲媒體注重報導負面新聞，大肆報導任何罪案，才會令人有馬來西亞的罪案率很高的負面印象。
一個月內有20 起搶刼案，警方會不會說那只是那主婦的個人印象？
Kepong area of Kuala Lumpur City is always known as the "BLACK ZONE" when it comes to crime rate. Last night, the residents of Kepong said it on 8pm TV news, that 20 robberies had happened in Kepong over the past one month period.
A local resident, a home-maker, said it on the news, that last week, while she and her daughter was at home, robbers tried to force their way into her house. She screamed, and neighbours screamed, her daughtered tried to call police on her mobile phone, at last the robbers ran off. She is really brave to come out to say this.
Three weeks ago, police just said that Malaysia is really safe, crime rate is dropping, it is all the false perception created by the media by focusing on reporting negatives matters, like crimes.
20 robberies in one month in the same area, what will the police say to that? Will the police say that it is all the home-maker's personal false perception?
NOTE TO SELF: After a spell of sickness, finally I am back.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
What will you do when you are the bystander?
2 days ago, in Air Itam, Penang, a Malaysian Chinese woman in her 60's, was robbed by a snatch-thief. Yesterday she passed away in the hospital, from the injuries she sustained from the robbery.
Last week, also in George Town, Penang, an artist/gallery-owner, was robbed in her gallery, the robbers cut her throat, but she was not killed.
What the 2 cases have in common? No people helped them.
In the case in Air Itam, newspapers ran the photos taken by the surveillance camera of the nearby motorcycle parking lot, which belongs to a flat. In the photos, the deceased was dragged by two snatch-thieves on a motorcycle, and her head hit the ground. And according to the footage, she laid there for hours, and at least 6 people passed by without anyone trying to help.
It was an elder man who needed a cane to walk that saw her and called for help.
And in the case last week, the artist/gallery-owner was robbed, cut, bleeding, and with her gallery door wide open, the lights well-lit in the gallery, she was on the floor, leaning on the wall, near the door, which was clearly visible to anyone passing by, and there were also a few people passed by. They did not help. Finally a man passing by called for help.
This is the scary fact of Malaysian society. No, we have never heard of people are sued after they helped victims of road accidents like what happened in China. We just do not help.
It is easy for those who are reading this kind of news to say anything, make any comments they want. But what are you going to do when it is right in front of you? I mean when you are the by-standers or the people passing the crime scene; what are you going to do? Will you call an ambulance? call the police?
And about calling an ambulance, I got a personal little story here:
I was living at Kepong at the time, my septuagenarian mother fainted one night, I tried to call ambulance, no one picked up the phone at the Selayang Government Hospital, out of desperation, I tried to call UM hospital, and a woman picked up the phone, but told me since I live in Kepong, call Selayang hospital. I had no car, at the end I called a friend with a 4-wheel-drive to help send my mother to hospital.
This is something really happenning in Malaysia, not something that happened in China, like the toddler who got hit by a car and people just let her died.
Remember, talk is cheap.
馬來西亞救傷電車話（固線）：９９１（救傷車），９９９（火災，救傷車通用）
你會打電話叫救傷車嗎？
上星期在檳城的喬治市，傍晚時分，有位女畫家在自己的畫廊內被打刼，刼匪把女畫家的頸割傷。女畫家在燈光明亮的畫廊內，癱在畫廊入口處的地上，倚著牆，頸部的傷口流著血，門外有好幾人走過，但沒人施以援手。最後是有個男人去叫救傷車。
兩天前，也是在檳城，有位６０歲的老婦，在晚上回家的路上，被搶機車的兩個刼匪打刼，人被拖在地上，頭部受傷，倒在地上。我看到的中文報在封面刋出了案發的連環照。這些連環照是從在近旁的組屋的機車場的監視器録下的的影帶中截取的。根據報導，在老婦被打刼受傷倒地後，起碼有６人經過，但他們都沒施援。最後是有位要靠拐杖走路的老生先經過，見到了去求救。
你是馬來西亞人又在場的話，你會怎麽做？不在現場的人，不是受害人，在看到新聞後，說甚麽都可以。但當你自己就是在場目睹的人呢？當你自己就是受害人呢？你會怎麽做？
在馬來西亞打電話叫救傷車是很折騰的事。我本身有這樣的經驗：我母親深夜在家中暈倒了，自己沒有汽車，就打電話去士拉央的政府醫院叫救傷車，電話是打通了，但一直沒人接。當時是住在甲洞，急了，就打去馬大醫院，有人接，但回說我竟然是住在甲洞，那該打去士拉央的政付醫院。結果，是打電話叫朋友開車來送我母親去醫院。
當時就算有人經過看到，馬上打電話叫救傷車，叫得到嗎？要等多久打會有人接電話？之後要等多久才有救傷車來？這是現實的馬來西亞。政府可以說馬來西亞如何好，各政府部門如何有效率，但人民知道本身的經驗才是真的。
Last week, also in George Town, Penang, an artist/gallery-owner, was robbed in her gallery, the robbers cut her throat, but she was not killed.
What the 2 cases have in common? No people helped them.
In the case in Air Itam, newspapers ran the photos taken by the surveillance camera of the nearby motorcycle parking lot, which belongs to a flat. In the photos, the deceased was dragged by two snatch-thieves on a motorcycle, and her head hit the ground. And according to the footage, she laid there for hours, and at least 6 people passed by without anyone trying to help.
It was an elder man who needed a cane to walk that saw her and called for help.
And in the case last week, the artist/gallery-owner was robbed, cut, bleeding, and with her gallery door wide open, the lights well-lit in the gallery, she was on the floor, leaning on the wall, near the door, which was clearly visible to anyone passing by, and there were also a few people passed by. They did not help. Finally a man passing by called for help.
This is the scary fact of Malaysian society. No, we have never heard of people are sued after they helped victims of road accidents like what happened in China. We just do not help.
It is easy for those who are reading this kind of news to say anything, make any comments they want. But what are you going to do when it is right in front of you? I mean when you are the by-standers or the people passing the crime scene; what are you going to do? Will you call an ambulance? call the police?
And about calling an ambulance, I got a personal little story here:
I was living at Kepong at the time, my septuagenarian mother fainted one night, I tried to call ambulance, no one picked up the phone at the Selayang Government Hospital, out of desperation, I tried to call UM hospital, and a woman picked up the phone, but told me since I live in Kepong, call Selayang hospital. I had no car, at the end I called a friend with a 4-wheel-drive to help send my mother to hospital.
This is something really happenning in Malaysia, not something that happened in China, like the toddler who got hit by a car and people just let her died.
Remember, talk is cheap.
馬來西亞救傷電車話（固線）：９９１（救傷車），９９９（火災，救傷車通用）
你會打電話叫救傷車嗎？
上星期在檳城的喬治市，傍晚時分，有位女畫家在自己的畫廊內被打刼，刼匪把女畫家的頸割傷。女畫家在燈光明亮的畫廊內，癱在畫廊入口處的地上，倚著牆，頸部的傷口流著血，門外有好幾人走過，但沒人施以援手。最後是有個男人去叫救傷車。
兩天前，也是在檳城，有位６０歲的老婦，在晚上回家的路上，被搶機車的兩個刼匪打刼，人被拖在地上，頭部受傷，倒在地上。我看到的中文報在封面刋出了案發的連環照。這些連環照是從在近旁的組屋的機車場的監視器録下的的影帶中截取的。根據報導，在老婦被打刼受傷倒地後，起碼有６人經過，但他們都沒施援。最後是有位要靠拐杖走路的老生先經過，見到了去求救。
你是馬來西亞人又在場的話，你會怎麽做？不在現場的人，不是受害人，在看到新聞後，說甚麽都可以。但當你自己就是在場目睹的人呢？當你自己就是受害人呢？你會怎麽做？
在馬來西亞打電話叫救傷車是很折騰的事。我本身有這樣的經驗：我母親深夜在家中暈倒了，自己沒有汽車，就打電話去士拉央的政府醫院叫救傷車，電話是打通了，但一直沒人接。當時是住在甲洞，急了，就打去馬大醫院，有人接，但回說我竟然是住在甲洞，那該打去士拉央的政付醫院。結果，是打電話叫朋友開車來送我母親去醫院。
當時就算有人經過看到，馬上打電話叫救傷車，叫得到嗎？要等多久打會有人接電話？之後要等多久才有救傷車來？這是現實的馬來西亞。政府可以說馬來西亞如何好，各政府部門如何有效率，但人民知道本身的經驗才是真的。
Monday, June 25, 2012
Police told the crime victims to report the crime as accidents
Yesterday, a little piece in the newspaper caught my eye:
An elder man who live in Bentong, was beaten and robbbed right in his house. He went to file a police report, and the police there told him to report the case as an accident, stating that he was out, while riding motorcycle, fell off and lost his wallet. This is making false police report, which is a crime in itself under Malaysian laws.
As this victim of crime is a sane and sensible person, he did not do as he was told by the police. Instead he went to the village headman* for help.
*For those who are using British English, in Malaysia the title Mayor is only appropriate for the Mayor of a big city, like Kuala Lumpur, the idea of a village mayor is only right in UK, and maybe Canada, US, Australasia, but definitely not Malaysia; in the senses of the scale of the power invested in them, and the official functionalities, and the moral and knowledge standard those people have.
And the village headman actually told the victim to do as the police said. So instead the victim and his daughter went to a local MP for help. And they told the newspaper, and that's how this little piece of news was published in the newspaper.
And you think the police department is under a lot of pressure from newspaper? politicians? the public outcry? Zero. In fact, today, a similar news is published again. In this case, a group of residents of Port Klang came out, claiming that they have the same kind of experience, a lot of them who were beaten, robbed, when trying to file police reports, the police told them to report their cases as accidents, and they lost their money, wallets, belongings in the accidents. So the result is that they can tell the public that the crime rate is dropping in Port Klang.
Only in Malaysia, police can actually told the victims of crimes to make false police reports, and no one to question them, no member of the cabinet is held responsible.
Added on 13 Jul, 2012:
Actually, on 1st Feb, 2010, I posted my own experience of filing police report. The police man taking my statement actually asked me why I wanted to file police report.
My post on 1st Feb, 2010: Why do you want to make a police report?
這在馬來西亞叫報假案，是犯法的。
受害人很理智也很清醒，他不照警察的話去做；他轉向村長求助，村長竟然叫他照警察的話去做。在這情況下，他和女兒去找國會議員投訴，所以報紙就在不顯眼的版位登了這麽一小則新聞。
上面這一則是前天的報紙看到的。今天的報紙又有一則類似的新聞：
巴生有一班人出來指責說，當地警方叫罪案的受害人報假案，把搶刼報成意外，如此他們就可以向公眾交待說巴生的罪案率極低。
有了這兩則新聞，有人出來駡嗎？沒有。不見有任何執政黨的政治人物出來駡警察，也不見有任何民間輿論在報紙、電視上譴責警方和政府，更不見有政府說那位內閣成員該爲此事負責。這就是馬來西亞。只在馬來西亞。
An elder man who live in Bentong, was beaten and robbbed right in his house. He went to file a police report, and the police there told him to report the case as an accident, stating that he was out, while riding motorcycle, fell off and lost his wallet. This is making false police report, which is a crime in itself under Malaysian laws.
As this victim of crime is a sane and sensible person, he did not do as he was told by the police. Instead he went to the village headman* for help.
*For those who are using British English, in Malaysia the title Mayor is only appropriate for the Mayor of a big city, like Kuala Lumpur, the idea of a village mayor is only right in UK, and maybe Canada, US, Australasia, but definitely not Malaysia; in the senses of the scale of the power invested in them, and the official functionalities, and the moral and knowledge standard those people have.
And the village headman actually told the victim to do as the police said. So instead the victim and his daughter went to a local MP for help. And they told the newspaper, and that's how this little piece of news was published in the newspaper.
And you think the police department is under a lot of pressure from newspaper? politicians? the public outcry? Zero. In fact, today, a similar news is published again. In this case, a group of residents of Port Klang came out, claiming that they have the same kind of experience, a lot of them who were beaten, robbed, when trying to file police reports, the police told them to report their cases as accidents, and they lost their money, wallets, belongings in the accidents. So the result is that they can tell the public that the crime rate is dropping in Port Klang.
Only in Malaysia, police can actually told the victims of crimes to make false police reports, and no one to question them, no member of the cabinet is held responsible.
Added on 13 Jul, 2012:
Actually, on 1st Feb, 2010, I posted my own experience of filing police report. The police man taking my statement actually asked me why I wanted to file police report.
My post on 1st Feb, 2010: Why do you want to make a police report?
警察叫受害人報假案
怎麽說都令人難以相信，在自己家中被搶刼毆打後，去警局報案，警員竟然叫受害人如此說：是受害人自己在路上騎摩多意外跌車受傷，掉了錢包。這在馬來西亞叫報假案，是犯法的。
受害人很理智也很清醒，他不照警察的話去做；他轉向村長求助，村長竟然叫他照警察的話去做。在這情況下，他和女兒去找國會議員投訴，所以報紙就在不顯眼的版位登了這麽一小則新聞。
上面這一則是前天的報紙看到的。今天的報紙又有一則類似的新聞：
巴生有一班人出來指責說，當地警方叫罪案的受害人報假案，把搶刼報成意外，如此他們就可以向公眾交待說巴生的罪案率極低。
有了這兩則新聞，有人出來駡嗎？沒有。不見有任何執政黨的政治人物出來駡警察，也不見有任何民間輿論在報紙、電視上譴責警方和政府，更不見有政府說那位內閣成員該爲此事負責。這就是馬來西亞。只在馬來西亞。
Saturday, June 16, 2012
AUD2 for all day phone call and internet access in Australia
A relation of mine just sent me this sms, that in Australia, now it costs only AUD2 per day for whole day, unlimited phone calls to the entire Australia (which is a really wide coverage, like international call kind of long distance), and unlimited internet access. He watches movies on phone.
Can we even watch movies on phone? No, not movies, but just watch youtube? Dream on. Yes, I know there is 4G in the market now, but how many subscribers can actually watch movies on phone? If you do, please tell me. Today is 16 June, 2012. We are living in 21st century.
I have to admit, I am jealous. To live in such a backwater nation, that 4G is not enough to watch movies on phone, how can we expect to be the developed nation by 2020? Remeber, South Korea has just been listed as developed nation by the UN earlier this year.
Cannot watch movies on a 4G phone, only in Malaysia.
親朋戚友中的某人從澳洲傳簡訊來說，現在在澳洲，一天只要兩塊錢澳幣，就可以全日無限次數時間打電話到澳洲全國各地，同時還有無限的互聯網上網時間。所以他現在在手機上看電影了。
在馬來西亞能嗎？別說電影了，看優酷？發夢了。在馬來西亞是有４Ｇ 在賣了，可是能看電影嗎？有人真的用手機上網看電影的，請告訴我。今天是２０１２年０６月１６日，我們活在廿一世紀了。
我是覺得很丟臉的，馬來西亞市場上有４Ｇ的廣告，可是有誰真的感受到４Ｇ的速度？今年年頭南韓已經被聯合國定位爲先進國了。馬來西亞？
用４Ｇ的手機，４Ｇ的網絡，但沒法用手機看電影，只在馬來西亞。
Can we even watch movies on phone? No, not movies, but just watch youtube? Dream on. Yes, I know there is 4G in the market now, but how many subscribers can actually watch movies on phone? If you do, please tell me. Today is 16 June, 2012. We are living in 21st century.
I have to admit, I am jealous. To live in such a backwater nation, that 4G is not enough to watch movies on phone, how can we expect to be the developed nation by 2020? Remeber, South Korea has just been listed as developed nation by the UN earlier this year.
Cannot watch movies on a 4G phone, only in Malaysia.
親朋戚友中的某人從澳洲傳簡訊來說，現在在澳洲，一天只要兩塊錢澳幣，就可以全日無限次數時間打電話到澳洲全國各地，同時還有無限的互聯網上網時間。所以他現在在手機上看電影了。
在馬來西亞能嗎？別說電影了，看優酷？發夢了。在馬來西亞是有４Ｇ 在賣了，可是能看電影嗎？有人真的用手機上網看電影的，請告訴我。今天是２０１２年０６月１６日，我們活在廿一世紀了。
我是覺得很丟臉的，馬來西亞市場上有４Ｇ的廣告，可是有誰真的感受到４Ｇ的速度？今年年頭南韓已經被聯合國定位爲先進國了。馬來西亞？
用４Ｇ的手機，４Ｇ的網絡，但沒法用手機看電影，只在馬來西亞。
Monday, June 11, 2012
They are from Fantasy-Land, right?
I got a copy of that advertisements funded, freely distributed Chinese weekly tabloid, the name of it is a kind of fruit that is eaten as vegetable, you guessed it.
There is this piece about security in shopping mall, as last week, 2 separate cases of single women being attacked in the carpark of shopping mall happened, so a few Chinese dailies are running stories on the safety of women in the public. This tabloid just just follow the trend.
Just where is the author of this piece from? Fantasy-Land? In this piece, he (the non de plume suggests it is a he) advises women not to dress provocatively, as this attract the attention of the would be attackers. Huh? Women are attacked because of what they wear? Get a reality check! Since when do you see those women who were mobbed, robbed, raped dressed in sexy, provocative attires? And their ages? Even grandmas got raped! Where do you see a grandma dress sexily in Malaysia?
And this man actually list this as number 1 in his advice. It is like saying those victims deserve it because they dressed provocatively. Those women did not dress provocatively when crimes happened to them.
And there is no editor in the tabloid? The editor lets this piece run. Just what is wrong with those people? Every time when the victims of crimes are women, there are always men telling women not to dress provocatively. Criminals pick their targets based on whatever factors, one of it is the weaklings, and women are always supposed to be weak, so they are more likely to be the targets.
We should compile a list of what victims were wearing when crimes happened to them. But even after we have proof that it had nothing to do with what women were wearing, will those men who live in Fantasy-Land come up with a new excuse to put the blame on women?
This is Malaysia.
看著這份免費，靠廣告維持的１／４開中文週報，報的名稱是一種被當作蔬菜食用的水果。
上星期發生了兩起女性在購物中心的停車場成爲罪犯的受害人的事件，所以這廣告週報也和其他中文日報一樣，談論女性在購物中的的停車場的安全問題。
這週報有一篇專題，執筆的是男人吧（照筆名來看該是男人）？在這專題中，作者以專家的口肳，列出多項女性本身該注意的事項，第一項是：
女性別穿的太感，這樣會使自己在公衆場所太引人注目，很容易被歹徒盯上。
你沒看錯，我也沒看錯、打錯，那以專家口肳寫的人的確是如此寫的。
女人是因爲穿得太性感才成爲受害人的？這話有甚麽根據？那作者是根據甚麽資料來如此寫的？他是從那兒來的？他有沒有看新聞的？老婆婆也被搶刧強姦，老婆婆也會穿得太性感，引來罪犯？馬來西亞有多少婆婆級的人會如此穿的？那些打刧，强姦的受害人，有那個是穿得像性感女神似的？
這作者竟然第一忠告就是說別穿得太性感，簡直就是在說受害人都是自找的。
罪犯在犯罪時，都是在有機會的情況下，向弱者下手。根本和受害人穿的是甚麽無關。
那小報沒有編輯的？這樣的文章也能刋出？編輯和作者都是住在幻想世界的？
該有人把受害人在案發時的穿著編成統計數字公佈出來。但公佈之後呢？就算我們有證據證明女性的穿著的性感指數和罪案的發生沒有關聯，那些住在幻想世界的男人又會幻想出新的說法，說這全是受害人自己的錯吧？真的是只在馬來西亞。
There is this piece about security in shopping mall, as last week, 2 separate cases of single women being attacked in the carpark of shopping mall happened, so a few Chinese dailies are running stories on the safety of women in the public. This tabloid just just follow the trend.
Just where is the author of this piece from? Fantasy-Land? In this piece, he (the non de plume suggests it is a he) advises women not to dress provocatively, as this attract the attention of the would be attackers. Huh? Women are attacked because of what they wear? Get a reality check! Since when do you see those women who were mobbed, robbed, raped dressed in sexy, provocative attires? And their ages? Even grandmas got raped! Where do you see a grandma dress sexily in Malaysia?
And this man actually list this as number 1 in his advice. It is like saying those victims deserve it because they dressed provocatively. Those women did not dress provocatively when crimes happened to them.
And there is no editor in the tabloid? The editor lets this piece run. Just what is wrong with those people? Every time when the victims of crimes are women, there are always men telling women not to dress provocatively. Criminals pick their targets based on whatever factors, one of it is the weaklings, and women are always supposed to be weak, so they are more likely to be the targets.
We should compile a list of what victims were wearing when crimes happened to them. But even after we have proof that it had nothing to do with what women were wearing, will those men who live in Fantasy-Land come up with a new excuse to put the blame on women?
This is Malaysia.
看著這份免費，靠廣告維持的１／４開中文週報，報的名稱是一種被當作蔬菜食用的水果。
上星期發生了兩起女性在購物中心的停車場成爲罪犯的受害人的事件，所以這廣告週報也和其他中文日報一樣，談論女性在購物中的的停車場的安全問題。
這週報有一篇專題，執筆的是男人吧（照筆名來看該是男人）？在這專題中，作者以專家的口肳，列出多項女性本身該注意的事項，第一項是：
女性別穿的太感，這樣會使自己在公衆場所太引人注目，很容易被歹徒盯上。
你沒看錯，我也沒看錯、打錯，那以專家口肳寫的人的確是如此寫的。
女人是因爲穿得太性感才成爲受害人的？這話有甚麽根據？那作者是根據甚麽資料來如此寫的？他是從那兒來的？他有沒有看新聞的？老婆婆也被搶刧強姦，老婆婆也會穿得太性感，引來罪犯？馬來西亞有多少婆婆級的人會如此穿的？那些打刧，强姦的受害人，有那個是穿得像性感女神似的？
這作者竟然第一忠告就是說別穿得太性感，簡直就是在說受害人都是自找的。
罪犯在犯罪時，都是在有機會的情況下，向弱者下手。根本和受害人穿的是甚麽無關。
那小報沒有編輯的？這樣的文章也能刋出？編輯和作者都是住在幻想世界的？
該有人把受害人在案發時的穿著編成統計數字公佈出來。但公佈之後呢？就算我們有證據證明女性的穿著的性感指數和罪案的發生沒有關聯，那些住在幻想世界的男人又會幻想出新的說法，說這全是受害人自己的錯吧？真的是只在馬來西亞。
Friday, June 8, 2012
A political contract limiting the number of schools
A few days ago, Muhyuddin, the vice prime minister of Malaysia, said that due to the law and the contract the Malaysian Chinese had entered with the government of Malaysia, his hands are tied to give permission for a new Chinese Independent secondary school to be set up in Kuantan.
The law? Which law? and the contract? Who, when, where, why, how did the contract was bargained, and signed? He offerred no answer.
And the chairman of MCA first said this, and then that, but never actually say anything about the existence of such a contract, is it true? And well, according to the Unions of The School Board of Chinese Independent School, they have proof that MCA actually entered this contract with government.
Only in Malaysia, the politicians actually gave consent to the government to limit the freedom and right of the people.
The law? Which law? and the contract? Who, when, where, why, how did the contract was bargained, and signed? He offerred no answer.
And the chairman of MCA first said this, and then that, but never actually say anything about the existence of such a contract, is it true? And well, according to the Unions of The School Board of Chinese Independent School, they have proof that MCA actually entered this contract with government.
Only in Malaysia, the politicians actually gave consent to the government to limit the freedom and right of the people.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Still people detained under ISA in Kamunting 內安法令還是能用的
Think ISA is officially repelled in Malaysia? Think again! Last night's evening news, a group of people showing their support for the people detained in Camp Kamunting, who are protesting in the form of hunger strike.
The ISA had just been replaced by the new set of laws earlier this year, right? Well, that did not stop the power to be to continue detaining people under that law. Now detaining people with the law that had been officially repelled, only in Malaysia.
內安法令今年年頭已經正式被廢除了，對不對？現在在馬來西亞，還是有人在內安法令下被扣留在甘文丁扣留營。昨晚的新聞報導，在扣留營內的人在絶食抗議，一群公衆出來表示支持。
已經被廢除的法令還能用來扣留人？只在馬來西亞。
The ISA had just been replaced by the new set of laws earlier this year, right? Well, that did not stop the power to be to continue detaining people under that law. Now detaining people with the law that had been officially repelled, only in Malaysia.
內安法令今年年頭已經正式被廢除了，對不對？現在在馬來西亞，還是有人在內安法令下被扣留在甘文丁扣留營。昨晚的新聞報導，在扣留營內的人在絶食抗議，一群公衆出來表示支持。
已經被廢除的法令還能用來扣留人？只在馬來西亞。
Saturday, May 12, 2012
律師公會對４２８的說法The Bar Council's POV ON 4/28
昨晚的新聞，律師公會召開特大，要求政府針對４２８當天有律師和記者，以及公衆被警方毆打的指責作出回應，同時要求政府把涉及的人控上法庭*。
* 本來是想用繩之以法的，要打字時才想到好久沒用，也好久沒見到這成語了；就不用了。
律師公會這回真的好硬。根據律師公會在閉門特大後的公開發言：
４２８當天下午３時多，公衆本來已經開始散去，當時警方却在回週包圍住公衆，不讓公衆離開，再發現催淚彈，之後再加上水砲。根本是警方自己以暴力對待和平集會，使得本來可以和平解散的集會以混亂收場。完全是在製造４２８不是和平集會，而是暴動的假像，企圖以此來污名化４２８。
當天有公衆被毆打，也有記者和去提供法律援助的律師被毆傷。警方企圖說這些人全是被出席集會的人毆傷的，但許多人把現場拍下的相片貼上網，使得警方的說詞全被揭穿，盡是謊言。當天在現場的電話和互聯網的網絡訊號連繫中斷，雖然當時沒有人出面指責訊號中斷，也沒有任何官方發表的說明，解釋當時爲何訊號中斷，所以訊號中斷的事要在律師公會的特大新聞報導才有記者提及。這種事能如此完全不被報導，要令人不懷疑和政府有關是很難的。
多家報館派去現場的記者被穿制服的警員毆打，不止報館本身有把記者被警方毆打的相片刋登出來，在網上有更多公衆把本身把到的記者被警方毆打的相片貼上網。在這種情況下，政府還能公開的說指責出席４２８的公衆，更企圖說警方當天完全是以符合專業的手法處理，將來臨的大選，馬來西亞人民只能自求多福了；政府是不可能讓人民贏的。
Last night, the 8 o;clock news, the Bar Council held an Emergency General Meeting, to discuss the issues about 4/28, Bersih 3.0. The meeting was a closed door meeting.
I was surprised by the tough stance the Bar Council hold this time. According to Bar Council, at the press conference after the meeting, on 4/28, the public was already dispersing sometime after 3pm, but they were actually surrounded by the police and had difficulty disperse away from their gathering points. And it was police, when totally unprovoked, started to fire tear gas, and then using the water cannons.
And on the newspaper, while reading about the Bar Council meeting, I first came across that on 4/28, the wi-fi and phone signals were interrupted. To say this has nothing to do with the government, hard to believe.
For the coming election, we the people of Malaysia, can only pray for our own safety. The One Najib is going to do whatever it takes to stay in power.
I want to say this is only in Malaysia, but looking at the news from other country, Malaysia must be listed as one of those countries ruled by dictators or/and living under draconian.
Please say a prayer for Bersih, for clean and fair election, we need it to stay sane, and to stay alive. Forget about speech freedom, being alive and sane definitely take priority.
一昨日は木曜日です。
昨日は金曜日です。
今日は土曜日です。
明日は日曜日です。
明後日は月曜日です。
* 本來是想用繩之以法的，要打字時才想到好久沒用，也好久沒見到這成語了；就不用了。
律師公會這回真的好硬。根據律師公會在閉門特大後的公開發言：
４２８當天下午３時多，公衆本來已經開始散去，當時警方却在回週包圍住公衆，不讓公衆離開，再發現催淚彈，之後再加上水砲。根本是警方自己以暴力對待和平集會，使得本來可以和平解散的集會以混亂收場。完全是在製造４２８不是和平集會，而是暴動的假像，企圖以此來污名化４２８。
當天有公衆被毆打，也有記者和去提供法律援助的律師被毆傷。警方企圖說這些人全是被出席集會的人毆傷的，但許多人把現場拍下的相片貼上網，使得警方的說詞全被揭穿，盡是謊言。當天在現場的電話和互聯網的網絡訊號連繫中斷，雖然當時沒有人出面指責訊號中斷，也沒有任何官方發表的說明，解釋當時爲何訊號中斷，所以訊號中斷的事要在律師公會的特大新聞報導才有記者提及。這種事能如此完全不被報導，要令人不懷疑和政府有關是很難的。
多家報館派去現場的記者被穿制服的警員毆打，不止報館本身有把記者被警方毆打的相片刋登出來，在網上有更多公衆把本身把到的記者被警方毆打的相片貼上網。在這種情況下，政府還能公開的說指責出席４２８的公衆，更企圖說警方當天完全是以符合專業的手法處理，將來臨的大選，馬來西亞人民只能自求多福了；政府是不可能讓人民贏的。
Last night, the 8 o;clock news, the Bar Council held an Emergency General Meeting, to discuss the issues about 4/28, Bersih 3.0. The meeting was a closed door meeting.
I was surprised by the tough stance the Bar Council hold this time. According to Bar Council, at the press conference after the meeting, on 4/28, the public was already dispersing sometime after 3pm, but they were actually surrounded by the police and had difficulty disperse away from their gathering points. And it was police, when totally unprovoked, started to fire tear gas, and then using the water cannons.
And on the newspaper, while reading about the Bar Council meeting, I first came across that on 4/28, the wi-fi and phone signals were interrupted. To say this has nothing to do with the government, hard to believe.
For the coming election, we the people of Malaysia, can only pray for our own safety. The One Najib is going to do whatever it takes to stay in power.
I want to say this is only in Malaysia, but looking at the news from other country, Malaysia must be listed as one of those countries ruled by dictators or/and living under draconian.
Please say a prayer for Bersih, for clean and fair election, we need it to stay sane, and to stay alive. Forget about speech freedom, being alive and sane definitely take priority.
一昨日は木曜日です。
昨日は金曜日です。
今日は土曜日です。
明日は日曜日です。
明後日は月曜日です。
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Must be lots of sensors.
A Malaysian Indian, male, was charged by poilce for posting on his facebook wall a statement to kill all the police in Malaysia. Did not see his facebook. According to the news, he made it on 28th or 29th of April. And on 5th May, he was officially charged. Police knew his facebook posting almost immediately after he posted it. It is facebook, billions of users, and Malaysia police is so efficient in picking the right one out of them. The only answer is despite what the government is saying, that Malaysia does not censor internet, in fact a lot of manpower and computer power are being used to monitor the internet. There is no other explaination. And the quick action to book the man is to act as a warning to the entire population.
電視新聞報導，有名印度裔的馬來西亞男子在其本身的 facebook 上貼文說要殺死所有的馬來西亞警察。沒上網去看，反正在新聞報出的時候，那帳號已經被封閉了。我這種看新聞才知道的人當然是找不到的了。
新聞報導說：他是在４月２８～２９日之間貼文的。４月３０日就有報導了，說警方要找他協助調查，也就是通緝他了。奇怪的是，這人很出名嗎？怎麽才貼文上去，政府就知道了？可是我在網上找他的名字，根本就沒沒無聞。
合理的解釋是：馬來西亞政府有很多人在監視網絡活動，所以這種貼文很快就有人看到。那政府說的甚麽不會監管網絡，根本是在騙人的。
５月５日這男子已被帶去警局落案，就快被控上序。如此快的動作，肯定是要起殺雞儆猴之效。
還有人敢相信第十三届大選會公平廉淨嗎？能平安的去投票？政府肯嗎？會不會重演菲律賓的戲碼？當年馬可斯倒台前的計票過程，計票中心的員工流淚出走，在外面說政府在作幣。這一幕會在馬來西亞上演嗎？
電視新聞報導，有名印度裔的馬來西亞男子在其本身的 facebook 上貼文說要殺死所有的馬來西亞警察。沒上網去看，反正在新聞報出的時候，那帳號已經被封閉了。我這種看新聞才知道的人當然是找不到的了。
新聞報導說：他是在４月２８～２９日之間貼文的。４月３０日就有報導了，說警方要找他協助調查，也就是通緝他了。奇怪的是，這人很出名嗎？怎麽才貼文上去，政府就知道了？可是我在網上找他的名字，根本就沒沒無聞。
合理的解釋是：馬來西亞政府有很多人在監視網絡活動，所以這種貼文很快就有人看到。那政府說的甚麽不會監管網絡，根本是在騙人的。
５月５日這男子已被帶去警局落案，就快被控上序。如此快的動作，肯定是要起殺雞儆猴之效。
還有人敢相信第十三届大選會公平廉淨嗎？能平安的去投票？政府肯嗎？會不會重演菲律賓的戲碼？當年馬可斯倒台前的計票過程，計票中心的員工流淚出走，在外面說政府在作幣。這一幕會在馬來西亞上演嗎？
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
還是 Bersih。 We Need Bersih.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOmcoH5ksKY
Bersih 3.0 theme song, Tears of Malaysia
I actually wanted to take a break from internet for a few weeks, to concentrate on reading manga. But after reading today's newspaper, just have to post this.
In Johor, a high ranking officer working at the Ministry of Education has been demoted to a high school. And all the Chinese in Malaysia just believe this is a warning to the people who speak against the shortage of qualified teachers in Chinese primary school. And of course this notion is officially rebuked.
We really need Bersih.
淚光是 Bersih 3.0 的主題曲。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOmcoH5ksKY
在柔佛，助理教育局長李翊獅被降級到國中去。今天看到這新聞後，忍不住要貼文。華人都相信這是秋後算帳，要打壓敢說出華小師資短缺這一多年老問題的真相的人。官方當然否認是這麽一回事了。不過柔佛的華人這次少有的有勇敢，這麽多團體出來爲他說話。是因爲大選真的快到了？當心，當年馬哈蒂要華人提出訴求，結果相信他而提出訴必的人，現在還敢再提嗎？
這回政府到底在打甚麽主意？因爲已經通過了新法令？所以現在一副我把你這樣那樣，你又能怎樣的神氣樣子了？馬來西亞人的日子只會更難過了。
現在我真的全心支持 Bersih 了。連 Bersih 也被壓下去的話，還有救嗎？
Bersih 3.0 theme song, Tears of Malaysia
I actually wanted to take a break from internet for a few weeks, to concentrate on reading manga. But after reading today's newspaper, just have to post this.
In Johor, a high ranking officer working at the Ministry of Education has been demoted to a high school. And all the Chinese in Malaysia just believe this is a warning to the people who speak against the shortage of qualified teachers in Chinese primary school. And of course this notion is officially rebuked.
We really need Bersih.
淚光是 Bersih 3.0 的主題曲。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOmcoH5ksKY
在柔佛，助理教育局長李翊獅被降級到國中去。今天看到這新聞後，忍不住要貼文。華人都相信這是秋後算帳，要打壓敢說出華小師資短缺這一多年老問題的真相的人。官方當然否認是這麽一回事了。不過柔佛的華人這次少有的有勇敢，這麽多團體出來爲他說話。是因爲大選真的快到了？當心，當年馬哈蒂要華人提出訴求，結果相信他而提出訴必的人，現在還敢再提嗎？
這回政府到底在打甚麽主意？因爲已經通過了新法令？所以現在一副我把你這樣那樣，你又能怎樣的神氣樣子了？馬來西亞人的日子只會更難過了。
現在我真的全心支持 Bersih 了。連 Bersih 也被壓下去的話，還有救嗎？
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The heat for Bersih 3.0 is on
Even an amateur hermit like me can feel that the heat for Bersih 3.0 April 28 is getting hotter by the day. Not just the Kuala Lumpur mayor calls for the movement to move the venue to Bukit Jalil or Merdeka Stadium, but also a lot of talks on the web. Even my drown in the sea kind of blog got some hits to entries about ISA and Bersih.
Now, should we prepare for the water canon on this coming Saturday? I strongly suggest to those who are going to attend, wear motorcycle helmet, have a raincoat ready, and bring a few bottles of water, should be like 4~5 litres, and of course your phones that have cameras, with mobile upload capability. I mean, I actually expect water canon on the day. Anyone else has the money on water canon?
Yeah! Government is saying there is a Peaceful Assembly Act, and it should be respected. We should see on the day.
４月２８日 Bersih 3.0 快到了。我這阿宅也感到氣氛開始熱起來了。吉隆坡市長叫 Bersih 去體育館，網上的討論也多了。連我這淹沒在網絡中的部落格中有提到內安法令的和 Bersih 的貼文也受關注了。
這星期 六會不會有水炮？星期天要去獨立廣場的人，當天該戴安全帽，帶雨衣，再加上好幾瓶水，起碼要４～５公升，當然也要有拍照，上網功能的手機。我是預定了當天會有水炮的。有誰也這麽說的？
沒錯 ，政府說要遵敬和平集會法令的。到時方知。
Now, should we prepare for the water canon on this coming Saturday? I strongly suggest to those who are going to attend, wear motorcycle helmet, have a raincoat ready, and bring a few bottles of water, should be like 4~5 litres, and of course your phones that have cameras, with mobile upload capability. I mean, I actually expect water canon on the day. Anyone else has the money on water canon?
Yeah! Government is saying there is a Peaceful Assembly Act, and it should be respected. We should see on the day.
４月２８日 Bersih 3.0 快到了。我這阿宅也感到氣氛開始熱起來了。吉隆坡市長叫 Bersih 去體育館，網上的討論也多了。連我這淹沒在網絡中的部落格中有提到內安法令的和 Bersih 的貼文也受關注了。
這星期 六會不會有水炮？星期天要去獨立廣場的人，當天該戴安全帽，帶雨衣，再加上好幾瓶水，起碼要４～５公升，當然也要有拍照，上網功能的手機。我是預定了當天會有水炮的。有誰也這麽說的？
沒錯 ，政府說要遵敬和平集會法令的。到時方知。
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Royal Concert on 21st April, 2012; what will be on 28th?
On Saturday, 21st Apr, 2012, the Royal Concert was held at Dataran Merdeka, in honour of the inauguration of the new King. And those campers at the square moved out, to make way for the concert.
What I see is that Kuala Lumpur City Hall and Selangor Club are getting more creative in their effort of keeping the undesired activities off the grass of the square. So, what new scheme will the 2 serve up to stop the Bersih on Saturday, 28th Apr, 2012? Nothing on the news yet. Googled and found nothing too. What will it be? The suspense is really killing me.
And strangely enough, just talks of seeking approval from the Kuala Lumpur City Hall for the use of the square; like those campers said they already got the approval from it. But what about Selangor Club? The square is no longer the property of Selangor Club? Since when?
What I see is that Kuala Lumpur City Hall and Selangor Club are getting more creative in their effort of keeping the undesired activities off the grass of the square. So, what new scheme will the 2 serve up to stop the Bersih on Saturday, 28th Apr, 2012? Nothing on the news yet. Googled and found nothing too. What will it be? The suspense is really killing me.
And strangely enough, just talks of seeking approval from the Kuala Lumpur City Hall for the use of the square; like those campers said they already got the approval from it. But what about Selangor Club? The square is no longer the property of Selangor Club? Since when?
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