Mr. Zorro, you have to send this fella in again, more potent please!

Mr. Zorro, please send this fella in to your Fart Chamber again. This time increase the potent dose manifold to knock him off once and for all!

Why he deserves another round? Why you ask me?

BECAUSE NOW HE IS CALLING US ‘CRIMINALS’

(source: Malaysiakini)

In the English daily The Star today Khalid made mention that policemen are not duty-bound not to arrest people while they are singing the national anthem – because if they do so all criminals will use it to evade arrest.

“Are they expecting policemen to stand at attention each time they sing the anthem? If so, what would happen if every criminal that we confront starts singing the national anthem?” the chief police said.

I AM JUST WONDERING… IF PEOPLE ATTENDING VIGILS ARE CRIMINALS, THEN WHO ARE THE MURDERERS, RAPISTS, ROBBERS? AM STILL WONDERING. CAN THE SELANGOR CPO ENLIGHTEN PENG?

MCA scoreboard: -2

This remark from Mr. Deputy Home Minister has earned MCA another point (below zero) for peng’s MCA scoreboard.

I have earlier posted that I will keep score of the new MCA leadership.

Deputy Home Minister defended the police’s actions on Nov 9 during the PJ candlelight vigil.

All of you read and practice from the same book; the book of LIES and DENIALS. Have you forgotten what your new MCA leader said? He dared people to “dare to be angry, dare to speak up and dare to act”.

So what’s your problem here? Didn’t your leader dare people to speak up and to act? Now you are saying our actions are illegal? Go tell your MCA leader to shut up then!

(source: Malaysiakini)

In a separate press conference held earlier, Deputy Home Minister Chor Chee Heung defended the police, saying they “had not done anything wrong” when dispersing the crowd that night.

“It does not matter even if the national anthem is being played. If robbers are running around, the police still have to do their job.

“It is not that they are not respecting the national anthem but because their job is paramount important in the country, isn’t it?,” said Chor.

He believes the police were not in the wrong, since it was an illegal assembly.

“If the police feel it (the assembly) might turn unruly, causing a breach in peace, then the police have to act,” he said.

When pressed further on why it was necessary to act against the participants since they were only singing the national anthem, he replied: “If there is an illegal assembly, who can tell what is going to happen?”

EXCUSE ME, DEPUTY HOME MINISTER, WE THE RAKYAT ARE NOT ROBBERS! DO NOT LIKEN US TO ROBBERS WHEN YOU ALIGN YOURSELF BLINDLY TO THE POLICE. I KNOW YOU HAVE TO ‘TALK AS THE BN WARLORDS TALK’. THEN DO NOT SEEK TO ENGAGE THE RAKYAT’S SUPPORT DURING THE NEXT GE. REMEMBER, WE ARE ‘ROBBERS’. DO NOT ASSOCIATE WITH US!

MCA SCORE: -2

Stories from the PLUS lane

Through the years, I chalked up thousands and thousands of km as I commute 400km in return journey between two cities weekly. It is the North-South highway that I drove on, wearing out my tires and the road at one go. This probably explains why PLUS has to tar the highway ever so frequently and me changing the car tires annually!

Some said that this routine journey will drive the nuts out of me. Contrary to that I do learn a lot from it. I have a collection of my experiences on the PLUS lane to share.

The infamous traffic jams

Are you surprised that there are traffic jams on the N-S highway? I am not talking about the jams caused by mass exodus during a long weekend or festive holidays. Jams can be easily caused by a stalled vehicle, an accident or just simple road repairs work! For the record, a jam caused by mass exodus has set me back 4 hours, an accident 2.5 hours, road works 3 hours (for a 200km journey)! Could be worse if the road is blocked and not passable. If you are lucky, you can make a detour to the trunk road, otherwise you wait in the car! God have mercy on you if you have a full bladder or an upset stomach while stuck in a traffic standstill. For this purpose, friends have discussed about a portable toilet invention, just for use in the car! Any genius out there who wish to contribute some bright ideas?

Road rage

This one incident of road rage that I witnessed on the highway actually amused me. I was driving happily and fast on the fast lane when a car overtook me from the left, and swerved back to the right lane in front of me. Road bully slowed down, passenger in bully’s car unwind the window and out came a 1 litre bottle of water, thrown at a car on the right lane. Out came another, the bottle cap undone and water splashed all over. By then I had quickly reduced my speed and went back into the right lane, gleefully watching the saga from behind. Then the road bully just sped off, as if nothing happened. Amusing?

The good samaritan

At one point of time I drove a very old car, to be exact it was more than 10 years old. One late evening the old bone shaker decided to shake off some part of the car, the exhaust pipe. Now most of you would know how deafening LOUD it is, if there’s a hole in the exhaust pipe. Mine did not just got itself a hole but the thing dropped off, leaving part of the pipe dangling and the other part dragging on the road. Can you imagine the noise that came from behind? Of course at that time I did not know what happened. I stopped my car to check, debating with myself whether to bear with the noise and drive on or wait for help. Driving on means having to endure the look and stare from other drivers, for who could miss hearing such a ruckus! A Malay gentlemen stopped to ask if he could help. And guess what, he was a car technician! He fixed my problem, good enough for me to carry on with my journey. I forgot to ask his name, but did thanked him profusely. Again, Mr. kind samaritan, thank you for your help!

The accident

I have since learned that the highway can be flooded during a heavy downpour. And that my car will lose control when driving through a flooded part. I saw 2 cars colliding with each other ahead of me. Both cars did some ballerina turns and stopped right in the middle of the road. I tried to brake but my car kept moving. I drove right into the back of the stationery car. My bonnet was badly damaged, the radiator was leaking. It was raining heavily. Neither me nor the other car driver got down to survey the damage to our cars. Given the situation, we made a wise decision to drive on. Otherwise it may become a several cars pile-up had we not moved on. Shaken but not hurt and I know the angels were watching over me!

The speed trap and road blocks

Road blocks on the highway are usually for issuing summons to speeding drivers. I have my fair share of being stopped because of speeding. How can I keep to 110km per hour without nodding off to sleep? Which is more dangerous, speeding or sleep-driving? Usually when I am stopped, I will ask the policeman to issue the summon (because I will not bribe myself out of the situation). The respond from him would be, ‘nak saya tolong?’. And I will say, ‘kalau encik boleh lepaskan, maaf dan lepaskan saja..’. Then he will walk to the front of my car, look at my number plate, come back to the window, and said, ‘boleh pergi, jangan pandu laju sangat!’. (Smile) that’s how I worm my way out. Another time, my modus operandi was thwarted when the policeman did not ask me if I want his help. He asked for my driving license and he began looking at it. Then he said, ‘awak sangat cantik ah’. I did not answer him and he repeated it. To cut the story short, he finally asked for my telephone number in exchange for letting me off! To save the 300 bucks, I gave him the number. The next day I got a call from him. I answered and pretended that he had dialed a wrong number. When he called a 2nd time I did not answer. Mean machine, am I not?

(to be continued…)