Monday, November 28, 2005
Cheer Things Up, Cool Things Down
Sick of working? Try this. Hope it would cheer things up. I have no time to play. Do not ask me. =o( These days are working like mad!
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Be Prepared When You Travel To/In Malaysia - II
As per my previous post on the 12 Nov 2005 regarding the alert on tourists safety travelling to/in Malaysia, another incident happened to four Chinese tourists on 4 Nov and this has been spreading accross mobile phones via Multimedia Messaging Service. This time, about 8 newspapers in Malaysia has published this barbaric event on the headlines. Lucky for the police force, the victim (Chinese tourist) in the picture was cought being force stripped and "ear squat"by a policewoman, not a policeman. What if it was seen by the public that the police was a "he". Should anyone has a "he" instead of "she" police, please circularise via same medium (MMS) or another (the Internet), as it can put more pressure on the Malaysian government to make a faster and bigger revamp on the entire Royal Malaysian Police Force's internal control and its management once and for all.
Policewoman using her power of authority, instructing a Chinese tourist to perform "ear-squat" whilst other personnel examining her travel documents - she was totally naked dude!
It is surely a big whole question on this phenomenon. As for me, as a Malaysian born, doing the stupid "ear squat" is typically normal scene when I was in primary or early high school, because of being cought obstructing school policy and regulations. It felt like a fool doing it.
What the fuck for implying this way of punishment to adults, who is only suspected to have done something wrong. Is the police force targetting weaker people? Or they just hate Chinese to have more influence in Malaysia? I guess they have some policies, but they are just not written black and white. Anyone can be an illegal here in Malaysia, we have tonnes of Indons, Phillipinos, Myanmar, Indians and Thais who are illegals, not the only Chinese. In fact, due to its nature of the barbaric police force, some unfortunate skin colours are treated differently.
There's something the police can do - There are quite a number of people coming from southern Thailand, ask for their travel documents. But before you do so, ask them to strip in front of you and perform ear squat first. Slap them if they got blushed.
The motto of the police force - Cepat (Fast to act), Mesra (Friendly) and Betul (Do the Right Thing) is totally opposite word by word, in reality. Let's face it.
Policewoman using her power of authority, instructing a Chinese tourist to perform "ear-squat" whilst other personnel examining her travel documents - she was totally naked dude!
It is surely a big whole question on this phenomenon. As for me, as a Malaysian born, doing the stupid "ear squat" is typically normal scene when I was in primary or early high school, because of being cought obstructing school policy and regulations. It felt like a fool doing it.
What the fuck for implying this way of punishment to adults, who is only suspected to have done something wrong. Is the police force targetting weaker people? Or they just hate Chinese to have more influence in Malaysia? I guess they have some policies, but they are just not written black and white. Anyone can be an illegal here in Malaysia, we have tonnes of Indons, Phillipinos, Myanmar, Indians and Thais who are illegals, not the only Chinese. In fact, due to its nature of the barbaric police force, some unfortunate skin colours are treated differently.
There's something the police can do - There are quite a number of people coming from southern Thailand, ask for their travel documents. But before you do so, ask them to strip in front of you and perform ear squat first. Slap them if they got blushed.
The motto of the police force - Cepat (Fast to act), Mesra (Friendly) and Betul (Do the Right Thing) is totally opposite word by word, in reality. Let's face it.
Sunday, November 20, 2005
My Chin Up Gym Bar
Last weekend was an awful one. I went to rock/wall climbing after a year plus of cessation. It was quite long that they even changed the management. I think my stamina has not been good and my strength feels de-powering. Though I have a monthly tight budget, I had decided to get a chin-up bar, which I had wanted to buy months ago. As I am now working on Fitness First accounts, I certainly would want to feel "powered" everyday I step foot on the client's place.
My chin-up bar
What's so special about this chin-up bar?
Well, it can hold upto 200 pounds without any screws attached to it, even to the door frame! It uses a simple scientific pressure mechanism, and it has rubber at its both edges to prevent your door frame to have any dents or holes on it. Convenient. Portable. Kewl for "people on the move".
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My chin-up bar
What's so special about this chin-up bar?
Well, it can hold upto 200 pounds without any screws attached to it, even to the door frame! It uses a simple scientific pressure mechanism, and it has rubber at its both edges to prevent your door frame to have any dents or holes on it. Convenient. Portable. Kewl for "people on the move".
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Be Prepared When You Travel To/In Malaysia
In case that you did not or not able to read The Star newspaper, kindly be aware of the police here in Malaysia. They are considered not helpful, totally money minded "bribery business negotiators" and they may harrass you in a way beyond your imagination of what a police can do to your most basic human rights. It is not uncommon, and below is not the only one case. Uncountable cases were unexposed.
PETALING JAYA: A 35-year-old housewife claimed she was forced to strip at a police station in Sungai Buloh, and that several policemen and policewomen there had also taken her money.
This alleged incident and a complaint by a remisier that an investigating officer at the district police headquarters here had asked for a bribe surfaced barely a week after all police contingents were supplied with button badges against graft.
The woman, who chose to remain anonymous, said she and the other Chinese woman produced their passports, but the policeman was not convinced that the documents were genuine.
Using a hand gesture, the policeman allegedly demanded RM500 from them.
“Since both of us were carrying valid passports, we refused to give the policeman anything. We were then taken to the police station,” she said.
The housewife claimed that when they arrived at the police station, a policewoman took five pieces of RM10 notes from her handbag. The money was divided among four police personnel.
She added that during a body search at the station, she was instructed to take off her clothes.
“A policewoman grabbed my breast and slapped me when I blushed.
“I was then forced to take off my undergarments and do five ear squats.
“I saw a policeman peeping then,” she said, adding that the room door was shut tight only when she screamed.
When her husband showed up later at the police station with their marriage certificate, the investigating officer also refused to consider the document as genuine.
The two Chinese women were only released on Nov 7 after the Immigration Department confirmed their passports were genuine.
Seputeh MP Theresa Kok (the human rights opposition party) accompanied the housewife to lodge a complaint at the Federal police disciplinary division and the Anti-Corruption Agency the next day.
In the other complaint, an investigating officer allegedly asked a remisier for cash when he came to the station after learning that the police had detained his friend’s wife, also a Chinese national. The sergeant allegedly refused to speed up the passport verification process unless cash was paid. The remisier said the policeman did not demand a specific amount. Petaling Jaya OCPD, ACP Mohd Hazam Abdul Halim said he would leave it to the Federal police and the ACA to investigate the complaints.
He, however, advised the housewife to also lodge a police report at the district police headquarters here for investigations to be conducted.
The victim:
Did not expect she's so chun
When you are in Malaysia, you can see one of the tallest building in the world, you hear pleasant electronic greetings, but you do not have the most basic thing in life - your human rights. Because those luxuries are exploited from the human rights itself - bribery and discrimination - and its rating is going up compared to other countries in the world!
Article taken from TheStar
PETALING JAYA: A 35-year-old housewife claimed she was forced to strip at a police station in Sungai Buloh, and that several policemen and policewomen there had also taken her money.
This alleged incident and a complaint by a remisier that an investigating officer at the district police headquarters here had asked for a bribe surfaced barely a week after all police contingents were supplied with button badges against graft.
The woman, who chose to remain anonymous, said she and the other Chinese woman produced their passports, but the policeman was not convinced that the documents were genuine.
Using a hand gesture, the policeman allegedly demanded RM500 from them.
“Since both of us were carrying valid passports, we refused to give the policeman anything. We were then taken to the police station,” she said.
The housewife claimed that when they arrived at the police station, a policewoman took five pieces of RM10 notes from her handbag. The money was divided among four police personnel.
She added that during a body search at the station, she was instructed to take off her clothes.
“A policewoman grabbed my breast and slapped me when I blushed.
“I was then forced to take off my undergarments and do five ear squats.
“I saw a policeman peeping then,” she said, adding that the room door was shut tight only when she screamed.
When her husband showed up later at the police station with their marriage certificate, the investigating officer also refused to consider the document as genuine.
The two Chinese women were only released on Nov 7 after the Immigration Department confirmed their passports were genuine.
Seputeh MP Theresa Kok (the human rights opposition party) accompanied the housewife to lodge a complaint at the Federal police disciplinary division and the Anti-Corruption Agency the next day.
In the other complaint, an investigating officer allegedly asked a remisier for cash when he came to the station after learning that the police had detained his friend’s wife, also a Chinese national. The sergeant allegedly refused to speed up the passport verification process unless cash was paid. The remisier said the policeman did not demand a specific amount. Petaling Jaya OCPD, ACP Mohd Hazam Abdul Halim said he would leave it to the Federal police and the ACA to investigate the complaints.
He, however, advised the housewife to also lodge a police report at the district police headquarters here for investigations to be conducted.
The victim:
Did not expect she's so chun
When you are in Malaysia, you can see one of the tallest building in the world, you hear pleasant electronic greetings, but you do not have the most basic thing in life - your human rights. Because those luxuries are exploited from the human rights itself - bribery and discrimination - and its rating is going up compared to other countries in the world!
Article taken from TheStar
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