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.