Thoughts on various matters

I have been so busy these past two weeks, my mind has turned to absolute mush. This week, I had deadlines on three pieces, a big focus piece (one main story + four profiles) for Personal Money, my employer column for Thrive and my employment column for the Sun. 

But on the matter of the rally on Sunday 9th, what on earth were the police thinking? On the basis that the video footage is true (and I mean, how could that be doctored, plus the hundreds of witnesses), how can one disperse a crowd while singing the National Anthem?

While the government expresses shock and disapproval when bloggers post flags upside-down or make a rap song over the chorus of ‘Negaraku’, they dispel a crowd who are peaceably singing the National Anthem? This is even more reprehensible than any upside-down posting and rapping, especially if the allegations of violence is true.

On the matter of Mahathir’s “racial politics still important”, I mean, really? What about those who are of interracial background, and let’s face it, there are tons of us out here, even though our parents are obliged to put just one race as our ethnicity, we are brought up knowing of  our backhround and sometimes looking like neither one race or the other. How much longer the conquer-and-divide policy? How can you conquer and divide what is already embodied in one person?

On the matter of the DNA Bill, I oppose it, and I oppose it strongly, and will only be happy about it with major amendments to it, and only if a Data Protection Act, stringently enforced, comes into being first.

On the matter of the Witness Protection Bill, please hurry this up, thank you.

On the Media Council, agree with most media bodies, all the other laws have to go first before we can start thinking about implementing new measures to muzzle the media.

On the 7,000 monitor lizards rescued, could we please begin to start eating normal food and leave these animals alone? I might become vegetarian after all this…