Today I saw a very interesting article in the front page of News Straits Times. There is somewhat of a make-up poster of this:
This happened to be the poster of the two special dogs that the Domestic and Consumer Affairs Ministry used, with courtesy from the MPAA - The Motion Picture Association of America in an experiment to see whether it is feasible to set up a canine unit specially trained to sniff out polycarbonate - a vital ingredient used to manufacture the blank CDs that we carry around. Two days ago, the dogs helped the Ministry's enforcers to raid an apartment in Johor Bahru (the last town before Singapore) and seized about 10 million ringgit worth of pirated stuff. Apparently, because of the incident, the syndicate kings in the south decided to put up an undisclosed bounty on whoever can take out the dogs or bitches to them.Seems like both parties are trying to cross over the actual lines drawn, and maybe try to take each other out. However, neither one of them know their own lines. Was it because of pressure from outsiders? Is it going to be the end of them as like the loan sharks (as announced in today's The Star)? I have no idea though. There are many endings to this situation, but I am no Kaileena, who said in The Two Thrones, "Of all the possibilities that I've seen, this held the promising of all." After, isn't she the Empress of Time, who knows the possibilities of the future?
A friend told me that the criminal rate in Johor is far much higher than the rate in Kuala Lumpur or in Penang. But I think the three are the same. However, in terms of notoriety, as according to him, criminals there, particularly snatch thieves are much more aggressive than ever. But I agreed in one point though - the number of snatch cases is far more than those two places. He claimed though of something, saying that those criminals there claim to have special blood in their veins - I won't go more just to avoid provocation - and there are far more illegal Indonesians there compared to K.L. Because of this though, he said that J.B has the most number of lifeforms worse than animals in Malaysia. I have no opinion though as I don't have a statistic to back his claim.
This would be the third day in the role that there's heavy rainfall in Klang Valley. And I really had to finish testing the JIRA bug tracker tool by tomorrow evening. I had to do a series of tests, including validation tests. The worst was that a field that I've set to put in the Resolve screen never showed up despite my firm believe that it was definitely in place! How could that be? But after that, the program crashed. Out of memory problems. I think that my machine does not have enough RAM to support handling of massive issues that might come. So suppose if the company decides to buy the software, it needs to be installed in either two workstations that has high memory.
The plan of visiting Ipoh on the 6th is back on schedule as the Sports Club Run was moved to the 14th. And with my friend calling me in the afternoon to see what time I could come down to town to meet him, I think it's going to be a great weekend for the three of us. But then I might have to post Saturday and Sunday's entries for this week on succession, say Monday.
I read the report on canine detectives as well. There was a very funny line there the other day - the dogs were trained to sniff out DVDs but they couldn't tell the difference between Original or Pirated ones! Haha! Truth be told - there really isn't much difference. The most significant difference is that buying Original DVDs means empowering the super-rich capitalists even more. Not buying Pirated ones simply means that the pirates would be out of job and will probably become car-thieves, robbers, kidnappers, etc. We live in a screwed-up world of economic inequality - the Rich Capitalists make up the Laws and tell us what we should and should not do. Idiots here repeat stupid slogans like "Beli yang ORI" not knowing that they are actually falling into the traps of the Rich Capitalists. C'mon, the price difference is RM59.90++ versus RM8.00! I understand paying royalties and such but should the difference be so great? It's obvious that the rich simply wants to get richer! Oh for the glory days of Leftist Government where everyone receive the same wages and DVDs cost RM8.00 for everyone.
ReplyDeleteAs for the crime rate in JB, it doesn't look like things will improve in the near future. Most JB people are painfully unrealistic blokes who keep waiting for Singaporeans to bring in cash for them. Failing that, they turn to crime instead of say, go for higher education or learn up a proper craft to make an honest living. JB probably has more Lottery/Numbers dealers than just about anywhere in this country - that simply tells us that JB people are very unrealistic blokes who believe that money falls from the sky (or from across the Straits). Get-Rich-Quick Scams are rampant. JB people are also extremely superstitious - constantly praying for a windfall. Nobody reads. Nobody develops artistically, culturally or intellectually. Within such a society, how can crime be lessened? The government is doing their part to enforce stricter laws and have more police patrols but so what? What JB people really need is Re-Education - they need to be told that money isn't everything when people become idiots brainwashed by constant exposure to Singapore TV with Mandarin-speaking idiots teaching them the "kiasu" dogma!
Hey, I just posted some funny stuff about John Byrne and Erik Larsen on my site - go check them out. Byrne is obviously very Right-Wing and Larsen is very Left-Wing.
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