RIFLE RANGE BOY

There have been many of so-called 'trial of media' of late. Somebody would commit a crime. He would be caught on tape doing it or after the fact. The widespread use of CCTV and dashboard cameras makes every action digitalised whether we like it or not. Then the uploading to social media and hence the floodgates would open. Every netizen who cannot even string a straight sentence would suddenly metamorphose into a law savvy opinionated caring human who cares for humanity and would go all out to ensure that justice is meted out. If only the truth can be whipped out so easily! MGR whipping the villain MN Nambiar into submission as the missing twin emerges from oblivion to reclaim his share of the estate from his  conniving deceptive relatives in 1967 blockbuster 'Engal Veetu Pillai' (see pic below too). The vilification and character assassination would ensue. Details of his employment, home address and even information deemed private, like vehicle owners...

Just the other day, I was watching a Youtube clip by the world's most famous atheist, Professor Richard Dawkins called 'The God Delusion'. I was particularly fascinated by one scene in this man's crusade to convince his audience that the institution of religious actually brings more disharmony to mankind. In that scene, Dawkins was interviewing an American secular Jewish man who got his divine calling and had embraced an ultra-conservative form of Islam. He was residing in Gaza. Upon being the state of affairs of world today, he went ballistic. He blamed the evil of the world on the Western civilization.  "You dress your women like whores and send them to the streets, you expect the world to be a better place!" To which, Dawkins coolly told him, "We don't dress them, they dress themselves!" I think that statement says a lot of things. You set a certain set of rules for people and say that some are more than equal than others and expect peop...

Blame my Brain (the amazing teenage brain revealed) Nicola Morgan 2005 Had the honour of meeting the author of this book in KL recently when this Scottish lady was conducting a workshop for writers of teenage stories. Her passion to write ignited at the age of 9 but had to wait for 27 years to publish her first book. She has written books in many genres, fiction and non -fiction, mainly for teenage readers. It is an amazement how those cuddly lovable cuties metamorphose into a volatile piercing thorns, something in the line of gremlins when exposed to water. In the case of tweens, it is adolescence! They may be the next most difficult thing to analyse after the female brain! In this 200 odd page book, the author offers an reasonable explanation for this transformation. It can basically be blamed on nature, 3 main punching bags - genes, evolution, neuro-chemicals. The author's target group seem to be teenagers and those in constant contact with teenagers with the hope of givi...