RIFLE RANGE BOY

The webpage screamed of the event being the biggest congregation of Malaysian stand-up comedy acts. It promised a night to remember as most of the national biggest bigwigs of the business were to share the same stage. They even brought in a Singapore artiste to add to the razzmatazz of the night.   We were suckered in to part with our hard-earned moolah with their pledge of a stomach aching, rolling-on-the-floor type and eye-tearing kind of laughter. With the lure of ease of booking online, within a jiffy before the level headed neocortex could knock sense into our action, the transition was finalised.   Even though getting to the venue was alright, parking arrangements were not really a breeze. The auxiliary officers did an excellent job though, to avert haphazard parking by patrons. The importance of this was appreciated later when the dissatisfied audience found it easy to take their vehicles out. (That is for later.) Malaysians are notoriously creative at par...

I found it funny that a close friend of mine should call me one day of something that eventually got me thinking. His close relative had been admitted for an ailment and he, who had decided that he was too good for the country, and was residing miles away after emigration, wanted to know whether the physician who was treating her was any good. "Any good?" I asked myself. "Perplexing that he should ask me that. After all, the physician must have been the guy who had probably topped his class academically, had apparently spent his productive years of his youth burning the midnight oil whilst other youngsters were having a whale of a time enjoying their youthful existence, trying not to leave any stone unturned just in case he is caught in a life and death situations in future. These and his other present-day out of office-hours and ungodly hour labours had come to this. Market forces deciding on the expertise and skill of a person who literally has the licence to kill...

So it finally happened. The guests on a radio talk show today went on a rampage bashing the legal eagles who were instrumental in the settlement of the case of a statutory rape of a 13 year old girl by a 40 year old married man with 4 children, 1 younger than the victim. The assailant was not even given a slap on the wrist. As he had made her his second wife, and both were in love each other, the case was made to rest. We have moved away from the time when we really respected the people of the bench and those in power. Gone are the days, when judges and leaders were respected for the wisdom and virtues. With easy accessibility of information and perhaps because of our educational improvement, we are able to make our own assessments and judgements on situations. Anyway part of the reason of the decline of respect to them is general decline in the standards in every field in this country. http://www.trust.org/item/20130521123932-o09qu