RIFLE RANGE BOY

A teacher lost all her life savings,  around RM 200,000 , to spammers. Over  400 children were rescued  from orphanages in two states from sexual predators in Malaysia. Stories like these are not ground-breaking anymore but happen on a daily basis. The worrying trend of late is that these are no isolated incidents perpetrated by individual wackos with ill intents. It is, in fact, a well-organised, well-lubricating establishment with vast tentacles lurking all over the globe.  https://borderlessjournal.com/2024/10/14/to-be-or-not-to-be-3/ This work is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .

We are on a journey to nowhere, travelling from womb to tomb, learning on the job as we go on. Along the way, we pick up wisdom from fellow travellers honoured by others as old hens at the job. Their thoughts are immortalised and cast in the stone as life hacks. Call it synchronicity or that the Universe is trying to tell me something. Thiru Valluvar's name got mentioned thrice this week. Maybe there is nothing supernatural about the whole thing; it is just that the algorithm picked up Valluvar's name being mentioned and decided to recommend the same. Whatever the reason, we simply extract the succulent juice and discard the pulp. This shoutout goes to my vegetarian friends and relatives who go under the impression that it is perfectly alright to stir a storm when the vegetarian dish is not up to mark with their palatal desires. And it is worth it to wound the egos and self-respect of fellow human beings as long as animals are protected and a meat-free utopia is created. Valluv...