Saturday, June 09, 2007

Local News

Wounded Man Dies at Clinic

Some of you may have already read Jan’s blog about the murdered man at the clinic in Paramount. In short, KS was waiting to see the doc when the CSI team moved in and sealed the place. He didn’t see the body and was told to come back in an hour to see the doctor. We had a quick dinner and proceeded to the clinic, which was swamped with curious on-lookers and the police.

I was dying of curiosity but was too proud to show it and instead asked a stupid question to a policeman nearby. “Lama tak?”. He just gave a smile and said, “Saya pun tak pasti lah”.

That was the end of my interrogation. I’ll never pass as a journalist with such brilliant questioning skills.


Prime Minister to Marry

Yup, for the first time in Malaysian history, our Prime Minister is getting married today. He’s marrying his late wife’s ex-sister-in-law. His late wife passed away in 2005, lost to breast cancer. I wonder when he had the time to date though.

Jeanne Abdullah has French blood. Other than that, all I know is that she was the Manager of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Official Residence when our current Prime Minister was the deputy. Apparently the press have been given strict guidelines as to not dig up any of her past info, no talking to people she has worked with, family or friends, even her kindy mates. Sigh, the price of being in the limelight.


Lina Joy Loses Case

Lina Joy was born Muslim but converted to Christianity. She tried to change her religion in her IC in order to marry her Catholic boyfriend so that he does not need to convert to Islam. The case which the world was watching. The case which outcome has caused a lot of concern to the non-Muslims in this country. The supposed freedom one is supposed to have in choosing their own religion.


Mongolian Murder

The high profile case of the Mongolian woman who was shot and then blown up with C4 explosives has been postponed.

To quote from jeffooi.com "...three days before the trial was scheduled to start on June 4, counsel Zulkifli Noordin was quoted in the International Herald Tribune June 1 as saying that: "We are interested to know whether there is any political link to the murder. Why were all the people involved linked to No. 2?" "

The counsel then pulled out at the last minute, citing "There were serious attempts by third parties to interfere with the defence that I proposed.". So the trial has been postponed under “unusual circumstances” to 18 June.

Enough said. I don’t want to be sued for blogging about "sensitive issues" but it sure raises eyebrows.



Green Pledges

Since it’s World Environment Day this week, the local papers asked readers to send in their pledges on what they can do to go green. Some have really weird answers:

  • Nelsen, 21, from Petaling Jaya pledges to buy chickens and set them free.
  • George Teh, 56, from Penang pledges to eat everything edible including edible skin so as not to create more waste.
  • Jeremy Lim, 19, from Klang pledged not to eat French fries for a month to conserve water. (WHAT??)


Infected Eye

Ang Ku’s eye is still not well. We brought her to the vet again this morning and he taught us how to pill her. We have to do this twice a day otherwise the infection will not go away. Poor baby.

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