December 2, 2005
After so long
If blogs can accumulate dust and cobwebs, my blog will be no different than those artifacts on display at our National Museum.
I’d like to place blame on my finals for my month long absent in Friendster. Firstly, it’s the EMS paper that I spent the entire 3 weeks on. Okay, NOT the entire 3 weeks, more like 1-2 hours daily revision on that sole subject. I know that ISO was though, but I didn’t know that it’s going to be THAT tough. The result from it? I got the points all in my mind, but I just can’t present it properly in a professional and mature manner. Yes, it’s one of the post exam blues that have caught me now.
Moving on to something more cheerful, are 2 open house that I visited last week. First one was Prof Halim’s at Bukit Gasing and the other one was Hajar’s at TTDI. I’m so grateful to be in a multiracial country and get to experience other different culture and especially food. Lemang, rendang, and many other food that I’m not too sure what its name is. It’s a good thing that I have a high metabolic rate or I’ll be fat in no time. Still, that’s no excuse not to exercise to keep in shape.
Now, for the main course, “PDRM in hot soup”.
More information here
China protests over police video
Malaysia minister defends police
Five-member independent panel to probe ear squat video incident named
Nude woman in ear squat video identified
Nude woman ordered to ear squat
What I think about this situation? Well, it’s a no brainer that the public fear the police. After all, it is they who have a gun. But having something as hot and sensational like an ear squat in the buff being exposed, all I can say is, “PDRM, you got PWNED!” Thanks to the lack of transparency and ridiculous amount of red tapes, many matters are left “unreported” or simply fell into deft ears if it’s even reported. I guess the authority need some foreign nation to poke their nose into our incompetent administration to get things going. Yes, I’m frustrated at first, but at the same time, I’m quite happy that something like this got exposed and gained media attention. Malaysians forget easily, so a major event like this tend to set everything back to track, for the time being. Now I’m just waiting for another hill top apartment to collapse due no EIA performed before the project being approved.
Foot notes:
PDRM = Polis Di Raja Malaysia (Malaysian Royal Police)
EIA = Environmental Impact Assesment
PWNED = owned misspelled ~ internet slang
TTDI = Taman Tun Dr Ismail
Updated 14 Dec 2005,
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According to the latest update, the nude woman in the MMS footage is a Malay. That statement itself has baffled many people and discussions on that issue has gotten weirder and not consistent (LYN forums).
Personally speaking, it should NOT be a racial issue because the topic at hand is that a woman’s modesty has been violated by some crocked police who get his kicks by filming woman detainees doing ear squats in the buff. I do agree that the circulation of the grainy MMS was untimely since there was a case of police corruption and abuse of power over three Chinese nationals. Funny how people jump into conclusion and blow things out of proportion. Below are links to news sites. I’d like to reserve my comment on this issue when the case closes.
Nude woman in ear squats video clip is a local Malay
Malaysia’s No. 2 police chief defends strip-search procedures at nude video inquiry
