A memorable charactor

It was in the early days of my working life that I met this peculiar lady. She was at that time doing small business selling shoes in Sibu town. But before that she had been an active student movement agitator so to say.  I recalled meeting her in a small village down river when she was going around the village to tell villagers to go against the new regulations of the education policy of the British Colonial administration with the sinister aim of eliminating Chinese education which they consider as subversive. We did not know each other then and I nearly forgot all about her. It seemed she was later arrested by special branch and put into custody in Kuching.  Somehow or other, she was later released and then she began having a special relationship with a married special branch officer who was married to her cousin sister.  There was a short time of struggle and conflict with her cousin fighting for the same man but later she gave up bringing up the only daughter all by herself.  Some time later, I met her again in Miri where she began a small time facial and beauty treatment centre. She did make some money during her short stay in Miri.  The last I heard of her was in Sibu when she came back there to talk of business deals in hair saloon business.  By then she had migrated to Australia and her daughter had also entered university there. In a way she was quite capable in view of her scanty resources and she made it all alone. I wish her every success in her undertaking.

A Senior Citizen

He is a retired pastor and an active member in the community. Suddenly he fell terribly ill with serious rupture of the small intestine and vomited blood all over the floor. He was then sent to the nearest hospital for emergency operation and has up to now not left the ICU yet. The interesting thing is he did not feel anything wrong before this although he has had his stomach operated on many years ago with nearly half of it cut off.  When asked about this he would naturally say it is the will of God and I wonder why would God take his earthly life and let him serve in the Heaven!

The Auditor Report

How do you feel when you once again read the auditor report on the government departments overspending and make purchases at very highly jacked up prices as much as even 100 times in some cases. or even more.  I wonder how they can get away with such wanton abuse and daylight robbery! Is it not time for those who want to be reelected to do something about this. How do they think people will condone such terrible stealing of public and tax payers' funds? Why the relevant authority has still not done anything to investigate such clear abuse? They are very smart to be able to hold on to power for so long and they certainly have seen and witnessed the tragic ends of the despotic and absolute rulers of the states in Arab states. Surely they can see their own future is now in their own hands and don't wait for the risen-up people to handle the situation and then it would be too late to cry for mercy!

Call To Repent!

Now is the time to repent and desist from continuing your pursuits of evil deeds including corruption and even daylight murder with special forces and bombs from the defence armoury. Now that the most powerful strongman has died and a lot of absolute rulers have fallen from grace now in prison or exile waiting the justice to run her full course. We do plead with the bosses above to wake up from their deep involvement in all sorts of intrigues and tricks. The fact that the truth and justice will always win eventually but certainly and then you will be judged and condemned accordingly. Sometimes you might be summarily executed by the relatives of the victims in the heat of the retribution just like Gaddaffi who once seemed invincible. Man.. face the fact and do not push your head into the sand like the ostrich. Whatever amount of gold and ringgits cannot compensate for your dear life. So now take fast action to do right what is wronged!

The Death of Gaddafi

The strong man of Libya is now dead and Libya is free from the despotic absolute ruler. I think it is time that the other corrupt and despotic leaders around the world especially in this region should take a good lesson from this incident. If you try to cling to power and abuse it for your personal gains and those cronies, you will have to pay for it one day and perhaps with your dear life. So if you can see reason and act now sensibly it would not be too late. While you are still alive do something good for the people. You should now once for all do away with all the  follies of grabbing all the wealth and squeeze the people dry. You certainly cannot keep your ill gotten wealth and worse still you can be forced to account for all the unjust dirty moneys and even have to pay with your dear life! Wake up and repent and mend up all the injustices while you can.

Friendship

I have a considerable long term telephone friend so to say because of the distance between us, we seldom visit each other and the only contact is by phone call which happens to be very cheap with a package.  I must say I treat her as a good friend as I have helped her in some small ways and give her advice as I am ten years older. I assume that I am doing some service to her and she appreciates the help and advice until one day I revealed to her I had made a good profit from real estate deal .  She suddenly demanded that I gave her a portion of that profit so that she could enjoy and share my happiness.  Her way of demand made me sick and I am now not able to continue the pure friendship contact. Not that I am stingy but I feel I have wasted all the twenty over years' of concern and advice so I am determined to end this relationship. I must add that although she has been close to me and is very friendly but we never have a chance to develop this friendship any further . Plato's love is the only description and so let it go to the river of no return with no regret.

Narrow Escape

I have had a narrow escape from the Rajang River when I was only 10 years or so. I was at a wharf watching my big brother and sister rowing a boat. When the boat came near the wharf I could not  wait any longer and just put one foot on  to the rickety boat. Before I knew it the boat shook and moved away from the wharf thus I fell into the river in no time.  It was sometime before I was hauled up by my brother like a soaked through chicken.  Later I also experienced a near drown in a pond near Su Lai Primary School in Telok Ensurai down the Rajang River. I was pulled up by a schoolmate whom I often looked down upon because of his poor school result.Being his free tuition teacher, I often scolded him for being slow in learning. But now I regret and feel that he has certainly saved my life then.  Then over ten years ago, I just happened to have artery operation, I could have just ended my life if not for the capable Indian expatriate doctor who just happened to be on his last day of duty and would fly back to India the next day. Fortunately he made the perfect diagnosis and I was sent to bigger hospital to do the vital operation thus I escaped another death.  So I think I have all along been rather lucky having escaped death for three times. Thaat is why I believe I have to do all I can to cherish this precious life for the rest of my life. I think I am able to meet any difficulties in life and hope to do something good to other people as best I can not just for repayment of kindness of others but also for the sake of humanity.

The Importance of Maintaining a Healthy Marital Relationship

 I have witnessed  a couple married for 40 over years and they seem to maintain an atmosphere of minimum interaction and a very detached attitude towards each other. The husband has been a leftist loner since his student days and it was a marriage sout of convenience rather than comradeship because the wife as his student who naturally admired him because of his high education and status . Unfortunately she has little love for his leftist thinking and they nearly broke off if not for the three children. Finally they come to a compromise by which he would continue his pursuit in writing leftist articles and books and she would go to the church and is an active member of the church. Because of this awkward relationship, their children are influenced to such an extent that none of them get married even if the eldest of them is long past 40. This is a bad example of a family and they could not help it much because of their difference in religious belief and outlook on life. Anyway, I think in all marriages, the couples should as much as possible settle their differences in their political ideas and outlook on life. It is easier said than done but I think apart from the example above ,  there are also a lot of couples with just very  trifling differences which can be solved by mutual understanding and give and take attitude. It is more on the side of husband to take the initiative and effort to cultivate a healthy and harmonious family environment for their own good. Wives are usually passive and submissive but could be with very strong opinion in sensitive issue like womanizing in which case of course it is the duty of husband to take a correct stand and leave no room to doubt.. If we have the right attitude in life naturally we would not find it hard to convince the other halves of our sincerity and faithfulness. Then we will find that wives are not so difficult to please and the older they grow the more wonderful they will be!

Join the Monkey Show

I think the broken-down tricycle is in real trouble with three different groups in the dog fight for party leadership. What is comical is that at least one prominent party leader has expressed his reluctance to join the dog fight and revealed to his relatives that he has been forced by circumstances  or rather his big boss who commands him to climb up the ladder. With the authority from the big boss  he is certainly on the upper hand. But this time aother faction is equally determined to fight for it. So this puts the broken tricycle more and more in a downtrodden position with only the puppies whimming for help!

Live Like a Fighter

To all those who have had an active life in the past, I would urge them to continue the rest of the life's journey with the same spirit as before. You have all gone through hard struggle and living has been a life ong struggle anyway for you.  Although physically you may be not comparable to others, yet spiritually you are well compensated and able to contribute your wide experience in life to the society by actively involving in the social and political activities to take part in moving the wheel of history forward to use the jargon so to say. Well there is no need to despair or to always regret for the past mistakes nor should we feel hurt by being neglected by the world for it is we ourselves who should be blamed for being left out. So come out now and live a full life as you are used to be, you heroes of the past can still be heroes of our modern times.

Cutting off the limbs?

Why are the Ma Hua, Min Zen and all those lackeys clamouring  about the Hudud laws?  We all know Ma is the most corrupt and racist past politician and we all know he has used all henchmen to collect dues and dirty monies from every quarter even up to this day. One henchman has just been declared bankrupt just to avoid paying enormous amount of debts after giving his boss the lion shares of the spoils . If the corrupt and despotic regime is toppled by popular and really bersih election , if Lao Ma is tried in a religious court , he would certainly be convicted of the sorts of crimes and I wonder how many limbs would be cut off. Perhaps, his head would be cut off too for his inciting the racialists in the racial riots!

White Lies

It is very shameful for a minister to tell lies and then retract his announcement without the slightest regret.  Not only he, actually quite a number of those up there had expressed their belief that there were no such violation of laws on the part of the authority in the tear gas bomb and smoke bombs and water canon. If he was the scapegoat in the first place, just say so or else he has to resign for telling the white lies just like the Japanese ministers and other officers in various countries of the world. But it seems the thickskinned  ones would never apologize just to cling to his post!

The Pitfall of Religious Paradox

I think we should not be drawn into a meaning argument of Islamic Hudud laws etc.  We all know full well that the Wu Tong has always been using religion and race issue to hold on to power all along. Wu Tong has proved that they can and have passed all sorts of legislations  without slightest care for their minor partners who can be done without.  So the main issue is not Hudud, it is who is in power. With Wu Tong in charge, we will have to live under dictatorship of one group of vested interests while with the new forces, we have at least the hope of real democracy and true equality due to equal right in the partnership. So please do not be deceived by the henchmen and lackeys of Wu Tong and vote them out for the sake of future of our children!

Adopted Children

Having read in the news that an adopted daughter in the US has colluded with her children to murder her adopted father who fortunately was not killed though badly hurt with bricks etc. The father is now 80 plus while the adopted daughter is 40 plus with 3 children.  Just this morning I tried to invite my friend to a magnificent show from China and in the course of our conversation , he painfully revealed that his adopted son who graduated from Russia with a doctor's degree has repeatedly behaved in a way that is unbecoming of a son, very rebellious and uncooperative. It is a very big blow to him as his own son was long ago kidnapped and just disappeared or lost in the air. His greatest hope is to find someone to succeed him and his huge wealth. But he is very cruelly denied of this pleasure and their relationship is in the point of breaking off in the river of no return. I greatly sympathize with him though I do not agree to his idea of having an off-spring is the greatest duty of a man according to Confucius . I think to avoid unwanted worries be should have a worldwide outlook instead of trying to adopt a son why not donate his enormous wealth to worthy cause such as real charity and helping really needy people. But I think it is hard to convince him to be so generous and selfless.

Divorce

Nowadays, it  is not uncommon to hear of many marriages fail and what is more many of these couples are into their golden years. What is really wrong with this society? There are of course some cases of the involvement of a third party. But you would be surprised many of the failures in marriage are not caused by any third party nor related to sex or related problems instead they are caused by trivial matters; like the differences of characters, habits, beliefs and even some very small matters.  In the past, they bear with each other due to their involvement and dedication to business , children and livelihood . But after they have brought up their children, they just face squarely with each other . People become more and more obstinate having grown old and senile. So what can be bearable now becomes unbearable and when two people become like enemies, you know often times it would destroy love and marriages. When there is any problem, be honest and patiently sit down and discuss with the other half and with mutual reconciliation and grace, all problems can be solved or at least set aside. The tragedy of divorce can be avoided and should be for the sake of living a wholesome life for the duration of the golden remaining years.

The Rising of the debris

As I was saying that the son of a tycoon has thought it wise to come out himself instead of paying the cronies to serve the vested interest of his family business. Now he has really come out to the open with an advertisement in a local news purportedly inserted by his supporters to express support to stand for the broken tricycle group party leader election. Knowing him well enough, there is no surprise that he has thought it worthwhile to gamble his political future away like he has done many years ago in the share market. If he fails in the venture this time, I don't know what would be thrown down from his office by his old man. Hopefully not himself in person!?