TESLA Is
Differntiation Natural Learning
Languages UPSR Welfare or
Profit ?Catching
pirate with reciever My Student Didn't
I talk about animal.. MAS
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ME AND MY STUDENT AT CHANGLUN
Left is Cikgu Madiah. Behind me is Norlelas Shuib who call me
daddy
Cikgu Madiah and me combined to teach data processing.
These were all our students. During the period when data processing was
introduced all other academic schools were unaware of computers yet. In fact in
the early 80's when I introduced computer literacy a few teachers a report to
the Ministry saying I wasted money and time teaching irrelevant stuffs. It was
after the complaint that the people from the Ministry came to our school to
investigate how computing should be taught.
18/09/2010
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FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT OF RUDE HAMS AND THE
PIRATES
Today again I heard a ham allows his kid to operate a
radio. When there was no response, the kid said ,"Cakap la...cakap la.." I have
written on this topic before and one great guy wrote me a long love letter
fighting for the right of pirates and individuals. Many hams are scared of
the threatening letters and SMSs. Whoever their Godfather is and whatever kind of
sabotage they do, it would not shake me up. I simply cannot respect terrorists
and gangsters.
I can't ask the MCMC to open another band for the wives
and kids to talk. If someone think it is alright to do it because it is just a
hobby and an individual has all the freedom to do whatever he likes, then by all
mean confront the authority to open a special repeater for these wives and kids
to talk.
It is not my job to monitor bands looking for law
breakers. I don't like it and I don't do it. Mostly I would
just park on a repeater, the common one, at time waiting for any call from any
friend. Probably the non-licensee would not care about anything and show no
respect at all that allows his kid to operate. He thinks there is nothing wrong
with it. Just now I read a headline saying the main suspect of Sosilawati's
murder denied that he was involved. Many murderers and robbers and drug pushers
never think they are wrong. In Malaysia drug pushers always escape. In China
they are waiting to be hung.
Almost 99% criminals would not plead guilty. Some really
escape because of the missing evidence or the drugs weigh different from the
initial report. Big time gangsters claimed that nobody dared to touch them
because they have people protecting them.
A ham may have a big brother or the son of a Minister.
That does not mean he is the greatest and can command forceful respect. Rais
Yatim used to say 'We are following the rule of law". Yesterday our Deputy Prime
Minister told the Indonesians we have rules of law. DAP, PAS or UMNO cannot be
above the law. When ASTRA once allow the non-licensees to check in the net
because the The Counsel gave permission, I knew than it thought that ASTRA was
above the law. But that was a long time ago. Things have changed now.
We don't fear any rude ham or terrorist nor do we champion
them. If we want everybody to be able to go on ham band , then request
to authority to open up a frequency for them. I don't say the authority has the
right or not. It can allow whether it would be funny or not. Notice the ham band
for CW where all other countries close for non-ham but the Indonesian allow it.
Since of of you may like these people then suit yourselves.
I happen to know the 9M2 who also support pirates and also condemned me. Just deep down in my heart I just say these
are very ungrateful people.
I am sure beside me, there are others who monitored the
kid talking. They might know who. But they are too good to be very busy body and
kind enough not to write on the website. I have written about this before and
gave the pointers how to avoid the rig being used by the kids and wives on their
absence, and I am going to talk about it again. Using
other people's call sign does not qualify a person as a ham community. You used
my call sign and I got the feedback from the station which you have worked
before. Some stations overseas record your audio and would send me back the
recording. And you have to fight hard in court that's not your voice. When I was
working, I had a habitual teacher who always came late. I asked him to write the
reason each time. One day one reason. I want to see how many reasons can he give
each day. 5 recorded voice from 5 different stations taking the audio analysis
will surely validate it comes from you. Being rude
really does not pay. Not everybody shares your view. There are many people who
would hate you and noted it down, and will not respect you. Many would ask was
ham radio like this before your existence ? In ham radio there should not be
gangsterism or terrorism. There is no DAP, PAS or UMNO. There is no Gerakan or
MCA. We don't lobby the politicians or our Ministers.
And never think numbers can scare people either. And never think majority is
always right. Just because say 1000/1000 youth take drugs, taking drug is right.
Just because all Americans call every Muslim a terrorist, does that mean all
Muslims are. |
TESLA
I wonder how many of us had ever
heard of Teslar ? In my school days we were told about Edison, the great
inventor. Tesla was born in Crotia and went to America at the age of 27. Tesla
really was a genius who surpassed his contemporaries at that time, in fact in
many ways were greater than Edison for his Alternating Current. Tesla's left his
documents to be used in the later development of modern state of the art
weaponary. The Earthquate machine was one of the most dangerous and
devastating idea. He could speak six languages. Like our local R.Azmi the singer
who died peniless, Telsa died unmarried left almost nothing but his inventions.
Had Tesla been a native American his
position would have been different. He gained the citizenship many years later
after a series of inventions. Genius may not be British or American made.
It could come from anywhere. The American knows this and fear their existence in
the Middle East or North Korea. When several competitions were held in USA in
the 80's and the Asian Americans won most of them the White became panicked and
started to discuss the problem within the White siblings and families. Though in
the later period the congress and the media recognized Telsa's work, many laymen
may not know who he was. Only in the late 20th Century Tesla's soul herd that he
was declared a celebrity.
Telsa was just like another Leornado
Da Vinci for his vision. It was not merely confined to the invention of the AC
current but to robotics, radio control, gas lighting and even weapon of mass
distruction. During the World War the American was scared the enemy, the Nazis,
might got hold some of his works.
In Malaysia I figure there are many
outstanding people had been anti-government. The excellent ones are working
outside the country. Any good one who came back home, rot here. Our interest is
not on the scientific development but more on making money and create personal
wealth. We razed hill tops and clear the water catchment areas for housing
estates, farmland for supermarket.
There misght be a Malaysian Telsa
somewhere but eventually the ingenuity will be killed. We don't invent, we copy.
Copy and waste what is American especially the youth and other younger
generations, without filtering for the best.
Soon Toyota will be producing
electric car, not a hybrid, no petrol working base of Tesla's work
Electric Car
Brammo recently debuted its second
model, the Empulse, a 100% electric motorcycle that will reach speeds of 100
miles an hour at a range of up to 100 miles per charge. Prices for the bike
range from $9,995 to $13,995.
It was Tesla, nor Marconi, who
started with the radio transmitter and receiver. Most of Marconis's work were
not original. It was Tesla who gave the lecture on the tune circuit. In 1934 the
UNited States's court declared that it was Telsa who invented the radio not
Marconi. Read
http://www.teslasociety.com/biography.htm
for more information about Tesla.
23/09/2010
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IS DIFFERENTIATION NATURAL ?
Tradition wants us to believe that
differentiation is natural. The physical environment of the earth has been
shaped by natural forces and weathering. The different temperature and locations
carved skin color. The vast geographical area gave attributes to the birth of
different languages. It was also believe that God endowed mankind with different
ability to carry out specialized jobs to ensure a perfect society.
The Varna system is one of these
social specialization; the Brahmin, Ksatriya, Vaisya and the Sundras. Some
others believed in the Slave Class and the Master Class. Blacks were brought in
to the Northern continent called America to work in cotton and other menial wok.
Once the Germans under Hitler was
investigating the feature of superior race by the skull. The existing of
superior race means there are division in human beings. And even in the current
21st century the beliefs persist. Skin and the color of the hair gave a strong
visual impact that formed the concept of the person. The white and reddish skin
are seen to be people of superior race, smart, intelligent and should be
worshipped. And people tend to frown upon the darker skinned persons as less
stupid and do not have any ability to learn.
They believe that God creates
mankind of different ability to carry out specialization. Those who can't read
and write are suitable for hard labor job or just do what people say. The really
smart ones would become scientists, doctors and lawyers. Once it was said that
if scientists or doctors were to run a country they would destroy the nation.
Lawyers or liars are good as politicians.
Specialization is a process where
only the expert in an area produce things they are good in. If it is exercise
wisely the world would reap the benefit from it.
Somewhat akin to economic
specialization is in the running of a country. There are people who believe only
the smart people should run the country. This is called meritocracy. Smart
people are those who have a highly intellectual skill which is measured by the
passes in the Public Examination. Those who can't score or low achievers are not
fit to run the country or not fit in any decision making. Singapore does
practice meritocracy.
Several Asian countries felt
humiliated by those people with fair skin that live thousands of miles away.
When the colonialist came to Asia and other parts of the world they also want
'to bring light to the dark world'. The others were regarded as uncivilized and
morons, stupid and inferior.
When China blasted it's atomic bomb
and the North Korean fired a shot nearly hitting it's spy plane, the Americans
were shocked. The first American shock was when the Russian put it's Sputnik on
the outer space. Much money were spent on language and scientific development.
Today much more money were spent for superior weapon development and espionage
to ensure the superiority maintains. The West can't accept the East can rise.
The free blog and facebook is a tool
fo gathering information of the people of the world. The analysis of the essays,
blog and all other stuffs enabled the CIA to estimate the level of intelligence
of the people of the world. The free pornographic materials are to shake off the
religious bias of the Muslim youths.
Reading thru many articles we can
gather the mental state and the knowledge of individuals. Though I refuse to
believe persons mentality differ yet the way they write things strongly prove
that we do have smart people and the moron in our midst. Giving a gun to a mad
fellow he will shoot everybody.
I have not come across any article
yet which says differentiation and specialization is nonsense.
22/09/2010
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LEARNING LANGUAGE REVISITED
Most Chinese can speak English,
Malay and their own mother tongue plus Mandarin. There are many who go to learn
other languages at the language center and paid for the tuition. When one of my
students who is a university lecturer told me recently that he was from Chinese
school, I felt so very proud. In the last re-union I had a chance to converse
with him in Mandarin. Right now I have to dig my old Chinese books to refresh my
memory. I learned Mandarin in 1962 a year at night class. And in 1972 I learned
a little more in University. It was at the university I picked up Thai language.
Hokien I learned from my friends.
In term of mastering languages the
Malaysian Indians and Chinese are superior. Indians are better in English and
Bahasa.
I am keen on watching Astro CTVN
channel after Awani and Bernama because of the excellent English with the
American slang. The Chinese, Russians and the Americans provide special
scholarships for foreign language students. The Americans start to focus on the
teaching of foreign language after the Russian shot up a Sputnik. Kenedy was
panicked for fear of being beaten by the Russian.
Students to go for further study in
Japan, Korea and other countries must learn the native language of those
countries. Surprisingly they could do it within a very short period and even
able to follow the course in their universities.
Knowledge and skill acquisition in
all areas would enrich a person. I did mention before about Chinese students
sent to learn Art and Craft though it is not an examination subject, paying a
high fee to learn piano and organ, paying coaches for badminton and swimming.
When we have people wanting to
acquire skills and knowledge let them do so. We should not get jealous or start
to hate them. Similarly there are working people who studied hard to gain
university degrees. Let them if we can't do it. They are not robbing our money.
Unfortunately we did hear people calling university graduates are useless and
stupid. Then let them call us stupid.
I do support Bahasa as a National
language but I would want schools to teach English and Mandarin as well. Have
the oratory and debate competition in those languages. The Mandarin debating
team should be of the Malays from the non-Chinese school. The English team open
to all races.
The members of the police would have
special language allowances.
Everybody has the right to learn
whatever he wants to learn, knowledge, skill or language. We are not an
autocrat, a bully or a mafia boss to stop others from learning and doing what
they want. If we don't want to learn, don't learn. We don't stop or threaten the
others from learning or acquiring knowledge or going to exam.
Recently I went to a fast food
restaurant and one girl attended me. I ordered a food in Bahasa, she spoke
English back to me. On hearing her I notice that she is a speech impaired
person. If she were to speak Malay, probably the sound would be more difficult
to comprehend. Then only, I responded in English.
Teach your kids the wisdom of
acquiring as much knowledge as possible, learn all skills easily available and
ignore those bullies or people who may insult them. Practice what you learn
otherwise you will forget them. Most of all instill positive attitudes and tell
them what survival means. Show them the examples of bad people, people of bad
and negative attitudes, the ungrateful and people whom they cannot choose as
friends.
Learning language is beautiful. Thai
sounds like a music. The French sounds like the Kedah dialect. Languages are
spoken and non-spoken, with or without sounds. People do use them to communicate
or learn them to decipher secrets. Security forces must master all languages,
verbal, visual, non-verbal. I just saw a documentary of a special forces sent
deep into Osama Ben Laden area. These special forces could understand the
languages spoken by the Middle Eastern people.
Certainly people who masters
languages or people who understand languages have much greater advantages.
So do what you think is good.
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UPSR
Last night my student's son rang me up and for my prayer
on his UPSR examination. The mother told me she never saw him as panicked as he
was. Her daughter showed concerned a week before the exam. Why panicked ? The
father and mother were both worried. Why worried ?
The scary situation arose because parents feared the kids
fail or did not perform well. I SAID THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT SHOW ANY CONVINCING
REASONS FOR THE UPSR OR PMR examination. The exam though important, it is not as
important as the intent of the test. What is the government of the Ministry of
education going to do with the result ? Kids and parents fear of social
discrimination based on the result. The low achievers are the Pariah groups and
left them to the teachers and society to brand them as stupid or useless.
What should be done with the result then ?
I believe there should be different type of school for
students of different category with different objectives. One category of
students should be put in one kind of school with special teachers who can
motivate, train and teach these students to be high achievers. By the time they
go to Form 3 or Form 5 their ability would equate their contemporaries.
The establishment of the remedial schools with promising
teachers would provide confidence to the parents. The exam is not to kill the
future of their kids but to classify for what kind of schools.
When the government first start the trade and vocational
schools, it's aim is to provide skills for vocation. Later it also fulfill the
social aim unknowingly. It kept the 'bad' boys busy in schools and do not waste
time loitering. The Ministry of education had wanted very hard to know what
happen to these 'useless' vocational students until today. I dare to talk with
pomposity that the vocational boys, my boys and girls, that I met during their
re-unions had made me proud and many earned much more than their teachers and
university lecturers. I thank Dr Mahathir for the Look East policy. I thank the
so called fierce vocational teachers whom the students respect them most for
making them the successful group in the mainstream society.
Vocation school is not enough. There must be a remedial
schools to re-teach students who can't read and write, poor in Mathematics and
Sciences. Schools are not only to teach but should be institutions for educating
manners and morals, goodness and responsibility. Parents and the government
should agree to the ways of disciplining the kids.
Kids must be informed and aware that failing is not the
end of the world. Learn from the failures and why they fail. They must try to
shake off bad habits like smoking and street racing. Telling the students is not
enough. The school must also show concern, built up the moral of the students,
make them feel proud to be in the school. Make the school better than their
home.
There should be places for the failures and low achievers
and those who can't read and write. Good teachers can take students who were
frowned by the others. They know human is always better than animals. If animals
can be trained and tamed, it would be easier to educate and teach human being.
It is the method and creativity that count. Special allowances should be given
to these kind of teachers. Tell then, "If you can't do it then please don't come
to this school."
The Ministry should act now to remove fear off the parents
and the kids. The test is not for discriminative purpose.
21/09/2010
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WELFARE OR PROFIT ?
It is easier to go everywhere by bus in the state of
Carlifornia than in Alor Setar. I was in Irvine Carlifornia for a couple of
weeks. Irvine is somewhat like a kampong. From there I could make my way to
almost any place I want merely by taking a bus. Most of us would say that
Americans are wealthy and everyone owns a car. Yet the bus system runs around.
The bus from Irvine was never full or packed like what we have experienced in
Kuala Lumpur. Almost everybody on the bus would know each other. Though I was
there only for a short while, people get to know me and 'hi' me when I took the
early morning bus. The driver would wish me, "Good morning Malaysian."
Elderly people would show their special pass when boarding
the bus. They would go to the usual place like the Old Folks Home or Civic
Center.
Computing the profit, I did not think the bus company
would gain much operating in those areas.
In Alor Setar you are almost dead without a car or a
motorbike. There is no bus along Jalan Sultamah or Jalan Tun Abdul Razak. The
bus would not operate in the non-profitable areas. The government sympathize
with bus operators but not with the people. 'People Come First' is an empty
slogan, a real empty one.
During the British time, the government's first priority
is for the welfare of the people. Immediately after the independent MARA busses
still operate in the non-profitable areas for the welfare of the people. Now
profit motive is the priority. The government prefer to privatized companies so
that the government has lesser burden and signed agreement with these companies
to ensure the company make profit all the time. PLUS is one of these. And
strangely enough PLUS is more powerful than the government.
The amount of money harvested by PLUS is more than enough
to finance the bankrupt-to-be government. Instead subsidies were lifted because
Idris Jala said so.
At least in some other Souteast Asian countries traveling
is made easy by small vehicles like a tut-tut. Alor Setar taxis are greedy lot
of people. They can charge 2 people RM20 each for a distant of 4 miles. The
maximum the tut-tut in Hatyai would charge us for the same distant is RM2
person. The next time we know the tut-tut company if allowed will be run by some
Datuk or one political company charging us with much higher ticket fare.
Assuming from next month we don't have a government for 5
years, do you think we are going to be unstable, and chaos ? Business will halt
and domestic product will cease to grow ? Will everything come to standstill ?
20/09/2010
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CATCHING PIRATES WITH
RECEIVERS
We used to carry communication
receivers along, put it on the table while eating or drinking in a restaurant.
Most of the time we would park our car at a convenient place and did the SWLing.
Whenever we suspect a local and nearby pirate because of the very strong signal,
we would note it down and brought witnesses. During the telecom time whenever a
report was made, the body would lay trap and eventually caught the pirate.
Pirates broadcasting songs and music were not heard anymore after the action by
the telecom.
Today SMS travel fast. Others would
monitor too. When reported the authority must investigate quickly the person
concern by getting a search warrant and move to the location any time day or
night. Using other people's call sign should be slap with a very heavy penalty.
A case had been reported by someone because he heard his call sign was being
used. It was brought to court and the person concerned had face a heavy penalty.
Old hams seldom or do not allow
their friends to operate their radio on DX band. It could confuse or made the
other side suspicious and would have a bad image of Malaysian hams. They only
allow the local to operate on local band. By the local band, I mean contacts
with the local hams. New hams should be aware and take care to guard our image.
During the telecom days a doubt that we allow other people to use our call sign
could cost us our license. Telecom was very strict and performed it's duty very
well.
ICF 5900W was cheap, sensitive and
light. It was better then ICF 2001. Both were manufactured by Sonny. It's
portability that made it so very popular. Today it is difficult to find
communication receivers. SWLs who can't afford expensive receivers can look for
the cheap ones in the internet.
The MCMC is always wanting proofs. I
don't know how the telecom operate and caught the illegal stations. Many 9Ws
looked upon their fellow guys with disdain and contempt for not following
regulations. While most do not lodge the report, they would ask other people to
do so or distribute the recording to their friends.
The Indonesian pirates is having
their own net. They occupy almost the whole ham band and causing problems for
international and locals hams. And now the Malaysians are daring enough knowing
the weaknesses of the MCMC.
The changing value system and the
system thinking is very dangerous to the country. If anybody says "Why
investigate and persecute the murder of Sosilawati, it is fated. 20 people may
have died. If we persecute another 8 people, we will be killing another
additional 8 people..." ,"It is impossible to fight drug abuse. There are too
many now. We can't beat them, might as well join them...", "Thieves broke in
your houses because you don't protect it. You deserve to be robbed", "Women must
not carry bags because there are too many snatch thieves. If you do, it is your
own funeral." , "Altantuya deserve to die because she was a nuisance and always
demand money","Teoh deserve to die because he is a DAP","Mind your own business
and don't care about anything around you..."
The last statement is indeed
interesting. Today we start seeing people who simply do not care if they saw
robberies, fighting, kids smoking or administering drugs, and do any other
crime. We saw two different Ministers giving a conflicting views and statements.
And in term of illegal stations, we
are yet to know what is in the mind of the MCMC.
And even if there are cheap
communication receivers are around , is it worth to report a pirate ? Many say
it is not their job and refused to be victims and subjects of attacked. Even the
MCMC might hate them for reporting. So they just talk and talk about the illegal
stations that go on hf on all band.
20/09/2010
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MAS WOES
I read with interest on remarks and comments on MAS. Those
were written by people with knowledge on management and what's the real problem
facing by the National Carrier. Though I am just a layman like many of you, let
us all follow my simple argument, the layman point of view.
Business talks of profit and loses. I only know about
income and expenditure. Everyone has the experience of getting money and
spending them. If MAS spend more than it's income it will incur loses. If today
they put us in MAS, the first thing we want to know is how much is the income
per month. Which route provide most money. Secondly we want to know the
expenditure; the utility cost, the salaries and allowances, fuel, taxes and all
others.
Certainly I would scrutinize the number of people getting
RM4000 per month. That would include the most top brass. Tajuddin Ramli and
Idris Jala should be given about RM4000 or less. Air Asia cut cost by issuing a
simple e-ticket, TV-less flight and all other possible area.
We would maintain the very important staffs like the
pilots and the air-hostesses and the account people and eject most of the others
like the CEO, President or high ranking highly paid staffs. The adjustment on
the expenditure has to be more thorough. I am sure you have heard about the
useless million ringgit painting bought by MAS.
The demand for the flight depends on several factors like
the behavior of staffs and price. I had had a bitter experience with MAS and
cursed the carrier so that it will go bankrupt about 10 years ago when I
politely asked a staff to pass a single cassette tape to my son in the airplane
which was due to take off about another hour. It was rejected haughtily. From
then on I chose Cathay or SIA for a long distant trip. Secondly when I went to
make a booking, I was told that the flights were full. The students in USA told
me that they could not come back because of no empty seats. But somehow when I
was on the plane I saw plenty of empty seats may be more than half. The
marketing strategy was poor. And at one time when I wanted to make a booking to
New York, I was told there was no seat. Then I purchased SIA. A couple of days
before my flight I was told of the availabilty of the seats. What the hack.
MAS was trying to cut cost on in-flight food. Good. But
again I had had a bitter experience. The air-hostess would ask you "beef or
chicken" and when it came to me I said beef."Sorry..no more beef." That's all.
While on China airline the air hostess would ask me "Would you mind bread ? ".
MAS staff would say, "If you don't want to eat chicken, and you want to die go
ahead..."This did not happen on the other airline.
I have been believing that whenever politicians got
involve in business, there will surely be a downfall. That had happened in many
business ventures. Private companies are more successful because they do not
take inefficient people.
Call in Idris Jala to solve MAS problem ? Didn't he asked
for the tax payer's money ? Give him a new job and he made people poorer.
It is true that airline bankruptcy is not a typical
Malaysian affair. It is a global sickness. However there are airlines which make
money. There is no point pointing fingers at those problem carriers. Think what
and how those profitable carriers are making profit.
Looking carefully, it will go back to the basic of
earning and spending. E > S not the vice bersa S > E.
18/08/2010
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DIDN'T I TALK ABOUT ANIMAL IN HUMAN DRESS ?
I have written about animal in human dress before on the
story of a 'BABI'. The current police investigation of the murder case found
lots of bones which could be of more than 20 persons. Killing under self-defence
and the deliberate brutal killings are so much different. Cutting and seeing
blood is nothing to them, just like an animal. When sociologist call mankind
animal probably they took account of the animal instinct in us.
If lawyers are directly involve in such a murder, it
indicates we can't even trust anybody at all. Anyone can be an animal regardless
of his status or the level of education. There was a case of a female astronaut
who committed murder out of jealousy. Hence when we see or hear someone's voice
we cannot be certain whether he is a man or an animal.
That is not the only murder case that we have. Many are
pending in court.
A person who dare to utter the word 'pig' on a national
link repeater is no different from the person who can go for the killing spree.
That's why we have to be careful in choosing friends. The lesser degree of
humanlessness is the drug edicts who would lose the senses of judgment
and humanity, and prone to killing their own parents.
I strongly insist that the ham community should be cleared
of senseless people or criminals. Animals in human clothing could pose danger to
the community. Drug pushers also come under this category.
I remember reading a book when I was a kid about the evil
of money and how it contribute to the growth of crimes and prostitution, greed
and robbing people properties and right, corruptions and bribes. A million, not
enough. 10 million, not enough. They are never enough. And I happen to know a
few lawyers who are greedy and cast away the Principal of law and fairness,
honesty and considerate. And lawyers who worked for the land grabbers are as
good as those who may have been involved in the murder.
Animals in human robs are around us. Just be aware and be
careful. Learn a lesson.
18/08/2010
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