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We need to make a difference. I really mean it. Each and every one of us needs to make a change, and make sure it is for the better.

First and foremost, I would like to touch on the topic of wise comments. I have been very disgusted by what has been reported back in Malaysia. Apparently, there was a minister who said, as the newspapers quoted, that it is disrespectful to call the food served for ISA detainees were like dog food. Reason being, there are poor people surviving on much worse, like salt and rice. I am absolutely gutted with this comment. I am ashamed on how we pick our leaders, and how they can call themselves a leader. It really does not make sense. Why can’t they see matters clearly? Why can’t they make better press statements? They surely had the time to think about them before they went for the press conference.

I am not sure if you see it as I do, but since when, and why, has food in a detaining centre been compared to the diet of a lower socio-economic group?! There are people who mix mud with flour just to fill their stomach in some parts of the world. So, should we feed people with mud and flour too? Just because they are being detained does not mean YOU can decide to feed them the worst possible diet you can think of! Would you like your child to be fed with salt and rice? Come on, I am not speaking politics here. I am speaking sensibility. I am not saying the detainee did not exaggerate, I do not know that. However, what I do know for sure is that the person who made that comment has showed how shallow his thoughts can be. Besides, could he confirm what were the meals provided? No! He had no evidence to support his claims. So, all in all, he was merely making an ASSUMPTION that it was better than ‘dog food’. If someone has made a claim, irrespective of it being baseless or not; and you want to refute that claim, you need to have evidence. This is mere logic.

Next up: Road traffic speed limit to be decreased by 10kmph. Boy, oh boy. Any reasons why? Do I hear a “to reduce the number of accidents on the highway!”?? Oh please. Indeed, the speed of a vehicle determines the impact if it collides into something else. But is this the crux of the problem? Ding donggg! Why not we create a speed limit for F1 racing cars? Duhhh.. It’s the person behind the wheel you doink! Indeed, there are skills and techniques required, and from an ‘ordinary’ vehicle point of view, these are your driving skills and techniques! Make sure we have the right type of drivers on the road-lah! We have kopi-o- license drivers, and worse, driving schools who DEMANDS for that kind of coffee money. I have to add a disclaimer here, I do not have proof of this, but I am sure it is widespread enough that everyone knows it. Is the (transport) ministry (not that I am not saying MINISTER – this is not a personal attack. Everyone works together as a team) doing anything at all about it? Naddah. I don’t thinkkkk soooo…..!

One more, I promise, last one. A member of MCA commented that they should have been consulted before citizens were detained under the ISA laws. Err, if it is a law, should it not be an independent body presiding and deciding, instead of you politicking people? CLEARLY, it has let the cat out of the bag – that politicians are INVOLVED in determining who gets detained! Another disclaimer, I do not know the clauses for the ISA laws, but from a citizen point of view, this is what I can gather and make sense of.
Edit: apparently ISA is under the home ministry. Gee, in NATIONAL schools, we are taught how our country’s constitution works. One of them being the police force and the law are a separate entity from the military and politics. So, how now? Educate people on some things and leave out some? What does the future hold for our local minds? That ignorance is bliss? One day, they will grow up and learn, and when they try to seek for clarity, those who tried to put them under wraps are screwed.

Of course, there might be some people who get heated up at reading comments such as these, and then defend and try to throw back some (hopefully not too) silly response that we don’t know how these kinda ‘stuff’ works. Yet, hey, we’re the public. Is it our fault that we have interpreted you that way when even your response to your ‘adversity’ sounds unintelligent? Here’s a tip if you want to expand your influence and get us all mesmerized with you - Just listen and act accordingly…I meant, with nominal intelligence. Would that be fair enough to ask?