Category: From My Angle

Update: Our neighbour told us that the culprit drove a carplate-less white RAV4! WOW! Don’t play play, this might be some syndicate and not your usual motorbike burglar that I always saw. This is one high class burglar! I wonder do they stole that RAV4 and used it to commit crime? Hmm…

This time… It’s our car that was burglared. At around 4am this morning, our car alarm went off, woke up and quickly turned on the staircase light, wanted to off the alarm but it stopped before I pressed any button. My dad saw the back lights of our car blinking thought that the battery might have problem, he went down and found out that the driver side door was opened. Steering was forced to turn with the steering locks so that the burglar can check the drawer comfortably. Luckily it didn’t hit the front windscreen. Everything in the drawer was gone but most were waste paper(mostly brochures hahaha…), parking ticket booklet was gone and so did the car user manual. What left was the other thinner manual.

Good thing they didn’t break the side window and the front windscreen. This morning, my dad found out that they actually forced the lock at the back of our car where the tire was hanging to gain entrance into the car. Now there’s a hole there. The lock was gone. They might have climb into the car from the back and went to the front and then left from the driver side door. WOW! The burglar was so damn “smart”, really don’t know to laugh or to cry.

Then my dad also found two packets of tissue papers thrown to the next shop and our company stamp was thrown to under my aunt’s car. The rest of the papers were no where to be found. I guess the burglar wanted to recycle those waste paper *LOL*

All the cars parked at our place ever got broken into, everyone of them got their windows smashed before. Ours wasn’t. What to do, we are not staying in a house but row of shops with public parking. You have to park at your own risk. Hmm… My aunt’s car was burglared 3 or 4 times already where her passenger seat window was smashed and nothing stolen from her car except the first time which her cassette player was stolen. The rest of the episodes, nothing was stolen but the same window got smashed but there’s nothing went missing because nothing to steal!!

The rest of the cars that parked at our area mostly got their sound systems stolen. For ours, there’s nothing to steal at all, we don’t install any fancy thing in the car and there wasn’t anything worth money to steal. Most of the time, there would be one dog sleeping under our car because our car is higher compare to others. I guess there was no stray dog sleeping under it that time, that’s why they targetted ours after all the possible targets were broken into before except ours. Stupid burglar! Only know how to spoil people’s properties.

What can we do to combat this? I don’t think there’s anything much we can do. By the time you found out, they were no where to be seen. I noticed that their operation hours were between 4am-5.30am because this is not the first time, I had witnessed severals with my eyes but I couldn’t do anything for fear of my own safety. Even if you want to report to the police and to catch them red handed is not easy, by the time the police comes, they will be gone. If you confront them, they might take revenge the next time. See the problem?

My area is getting more and more unsafe. That explains why I don’t want to drive alone or go out alone at night if possible and would prefer people come to pick me up and I try to go home as early as I could. If there’s no one that can pick me up then I usually would just stay home if it’s not something very important. Now you know why I always rely on people to pick me up when I go anywhere at night. It’s not that I don’t want to drive, I’m fear of my safety.

I’m getting more and more paranoid these days. Every night, I didn’t really sleep well. As long that I hear some suspicious sounds, I would wake up and look out of the window to see whether there’s something going on. I have no idea how many nights that I could actually sleep without waking up by some suspicious sounds. Sigh…

I suggested to my family to install CCTV or something but they are not game to the idea because this will cause unwanted attention to would-be criminals. It’s logical also because those suckers might think that we are so rich that they will target on us. Unless the council take action to install CCTV at our area but you think they will? IMPOSSIBLE! Who would be monitoring the CCTV? We are not as advance as the US ok?!?!

Sigh… You see!?!? What to do now?!?! Kuching is getting more and more unsafe, gone are the peaceful days. *SAD**ANGRY* I don’t feel safe anymore.

What’s your say? I have something to say about this. What’s the big deal of having Chinese road signs as long that the Malay words are there and the Chinese words are below it? Why make it an issue when there are other pressing matters that you should concentrate on?!?!?

I’m not talking politics now, I’m talking about racial and cultural issues that seemed like some ministers only care about themselves and being racist! For your information, we have Chinese road signs or signboards everywhere in Kuching and there is nothing wrong with it as long that there’s national language on it. It’s something unique and special which I’m very proud of, you can’t see this in KL or many other states in Malaysia. Why is it so wrong to have it in Penang? I don’t see the point. You can read the full news here

Quoted from The Borneo Post
Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said said the Federal Constitution had stated it clearly that Malay is the national language.

“All official signs, therefore, should be in Malay. This is part of the social contract agreed upon by our forefathers and I hope no one will try to challenge that,” Azalina told Bernama when contacted.

She reminded those involved the Malays had already compromised many things for the sake of unity but their patience had its limit.

Sorry la aunty… I used to see highly of you but now I have no respect to you anymore! What the heck with the last sentence?!?! The Malays!?!? We the Chinese, the Indians are not Malaysians? It’s more like we are the one that have to compromise many things for you people ok?!?!? We are never treated the same class as you people, we are always the second class citizens! This thing should not happen if we are regarded as MALAYSIANS. We all should have the same rights and not with all the special treatments such as different quotas or share percentage based on our ethnicity. If we are treated as MALAYSIANS, there is no need to state our ethnicity in official forms. Compromise!?!? Patience had its limit? This is really a very insensitive statement to be made by a minister! That is what I called racist and insensitive! Even among our friends of different races, there is no way we will say this kind of thing to each other!

It’s strange that for Malaysians, we called ourselves based on our ethnicity instead of referring ourselves as Malaysians but other countries for example Australia, they will just identify themselves as Australians instead of “I’m a Chinese from Malaysia”, “I’m a Malay from Malaysia” etc. Well… We are brought up this way, what to do?

Quoted from The Borneo Post
Malay language expert Professor Emeritus Datuk Dr Nik Safiah Karim said she could not agree with the action as it was tantamount to eroding the country’s national identity.

“A country must have its own identity and Malay is the national language. Why should we elevate other languages to be on par with the national language?” she asked.

I’m sorry but I just can’t accept this argument. National language is national language, there’s nothing wrong to have other languages that place with it side by side! If you are so concern about the national language, why don’t all you people talk proper national language instead of going around talking in rojak?!!? Just see how the sessions going on in parliament, goodness gracious! I don’t think I heard of any minister or YB that can use proper national language! This is just not the right argument for not allowing other language to appear on road signs or signboards. As long that the national language is there, it won’t do any harm at all. It’s something unique to portray that our country is multi-racial and everyone accept each other differences.

Quoted from The Borneo Post
Federation of Peninsular Malay Students (GPMS) secretary-general Mohd Nordin Awang said those involved should be clear about the position of the Malay language.

“All the while, there have been no problem with road signs in Malay. Why now?” he said, adding the move had no justification whatsoever as it was merely for political purposes.

“Are the road signs a pressing issue or is there other motives behind it?” he asked.

Mohd Nordin said throughout Malaysia’s 51 years of nationhood, there had been no problems or conflict arising from road signs.

He said the action could also hurt the feelings of the Malays and affect the harmonious relations among the people.

Oh yea?!?! Why is it always the Malays, Malays, Malays? Notice it? We non-Malays are not MALAYSIANS? We are living in multi-racial country, it’s not only your race ok?!?! It’s just road signs, it’s not some political slogans or anything! There is totally nothing wrong with having other language in road signs side by side with the national language! Don’t forget that many words in the national language are borrowed from other languages as well.

Quoted from The Borneo Post
He said such action should be stopped, lest it become a trend.

“Today it will be Gerakan. Tomorrow, other parties may also put up their road signs.”

Tanjong Umno Youth chief Shaharrudin Hassan meanwhile demanded Malay should be the language for all road signs in the area.

“We are not satisfied with the action.

We want the road signs to be in Malay,” he said.

This proved that these people are very narrow minded and still cannot accept the fact that Malaysia is a multi-racial country!

It’s just road signs! What the heck with all these stupid, narrow minded comments or views? Shame on you people, I can guarantee many Malays will feel ashame with you people for potraying your own people this way! I know you just potrayed your own views but not everyone thinks like you and with those statements, you are obviously dragging the whole racial issue and the particular race into your arguments!

From all these statements, it has proven that we, the non-Malays, are indeed second class citizens. Talking about being a Malaysian? What a shame! Malu betul to be associated with these kind of people.

WOW… Remember the bush fire? I didn’t expect I would be meeting the authority about it -.-” They came to meet to clarify and explain to me that they did come that night.

YES! They indeed came that night. They came with smaller fire engine, an Isuzu, this is the small one use to combat small fire like bush fire. They came without the siren. My mom and sis saw the blue red light, it’s actually the bomba not the police. It was mistake of our part.

I had promised them that I would clarify about it. So, this is my clarifications. THEY DID COME! I’m glad to know that they are efficient enough.

Here’s a tip that I can share with you the next time you call to make a fire report. If the fire is small like bush fire or people burn the things inside the rubbish bins, tell them what kind of fire is that so that they don’t have to despatch the big fire engine in case something big happen at the same time. The small one is equip with all the necessary equipments to put out this kind of fire. I think there’s not enough awareness among the public about how the bomba works.

I’m going to report some news here hahaha… Pretty anti-climax one though… Anyway, it all happened within this 24 hours.

At 12am+, I heard some kling klang sound, I sensed something amiss, I immediately went to look out of the window and *CUSS* People stealling the drain covers!! DAMN IT! Saw them laughed and joked and even sang while carrying the covers to the nearby shop and took their sweet time chit chatting with their friends sitting nearby before carried the metals back to their nest, the house opposite the shop.

Wanted to call police to catch them red handedly but didn’t think it will be in time, the thieves would be gone by the time the police arrived. Sigh… Could only witness and couldn’t do anything.

Last Thursday, the drain cover next door was stolen, not in the middle of the night! It’s still very early like around 9 something. We didn’t know it until my dad got back from dinner. I HATE THESE PEOPLE! THEY SUCKS!

Left: Here… 4 missing covers at the roundabout at Pending Road that I took in the morning.

Right: After the first round of stealing, they did it again and stole another drain cover somewhere near my place too! They stole it and even laughed while carrying it. They really enjoy this “job”! This time my dad got so angry, he called up the police. As usual, the thieves would put it down and chit chat first before brought it back to their nest before the police came.

The four sitting there chit chatting, then there were 2 more but not there when I took this pic while waiting for the police to come. There were 6 but only four did the job, the two in black just watched.

GUESS WHAT!?!?! The police came and drove passed them -.-” My father called the police immediately to inform them they drove passed already. While still talking to them, the police finally reached the place after one big round.

They questioned them, one police officer called my dad saying that they didn’t see any stolen metal there -.-” OF COURSE LA! They already brought back to their nest. We roughly know where their nest were but the police had no right to raid the place as they need a warrant for it and it must be the exact place else it will cause a boo boo. My dad was told that they couldn’t do anything about it since there’s no evident there. If they got the evident, they would surely catch them but the police would take down the details of the thieves for record. Then another team of police came to see whether their colleague needed assistance or not. They took down the details of the four and asked them to go back. Sigh…

I don’t mean to blame the police for this, it’s all about luck and timing. They did come immediately but there is no evident to take action as the metal were took back to the thieves’ nest while my dad made the call to the police to report about it. There is no way also to raid their house.

My dad knows the house owner, it’s rented to those thieves. My dad had told the house owner about it and asked the owner to pretend to go there for some official matters but I’m not sure the owner did go to investigate or not. This is because if it’s confirmed the metals are there, the owner and us can go make a report and get the police to raid the place because my brother said that he saw many metals there everytime he got back from school. However, what we are afraid of is that, they might have sold everything already first thing this morning after the police “interviewed” them during that wee hour which was about almost 1am.

Guess what!??!?! I also got a news that the cars of the car workshop next door got its cars bonnets stolen also! All happend at the same time. Those suckers actually went on a stealing spree at this wee hour!! SUCKS! How to catch them like that?!?!? No evident really can’t do anything 🙁

One more thing, the dogs were barking these few days and during the stealing spree but we didn’t see anything all these while until last night. However we didn’t expect the cars parked behind our shop got their bonnets stolen even though we heard dogs barking at the back also because we were too focus at the front. Those dogs are smart, they know who is bad and who is good but they didn’t attack them. How I wish those dogs can speak as they are the prime witnesses.

Next up, bush fire near Puspakom at Pending Height. Saw the fire at around almost 9pm. I called the bomba immediately. The phone rang, one very tired officer picked it up and I gave him all the details. After that, I tried to take photos from the kitchen but didn’t manage to get good shoots, couldn’t see much. Thought would be something big, that would be something exclusvie!! I immediately asked my dad to drive me over so that I could take pictures *LOL*

This is what I managed to get -.-” It’s not that big after all. It was pretty big at first but when we reached there, the flame wasn’t that big anymore and saw a guy trying to put out fire using buckets and buckets of water. I wonder where he got the water hahaha… He’s the owner of the car workshop nearby, he had to put out the fire else it might burn his workshop. He’s the only one putting out the fire.

The bomba didn’t come -.-” It’s only less than 10 minutes drive and we didn’t hear the bomba coming. I’m sure I’m not the only one called them. Goodness gracious! That poor guy had to put off the fire himself, no one helped, everyone just watched. I didn’t help too as I couldn’t do anything also but I called the bomba as soon as I got to know the fire.

CLARIFICATION 16th July 2008: Red blue light is from the Bomba. It’s not from the police. I’m sorry about that. I just had a meet with the bomba people just now and they had explained to me about it. They’re using the small fire engine, an Isuzu. Just that there’s no siren on. YES! The bomba came but the fire was already small or almost gone. It’s just timing problem, no one to blame. I really thank them for coming to make the clarification.

We went home and still no sign of bomba. Then my sis and mom saw a vehicle with red blue light arrived there, it’s the police! Not the bomba! That time the fire was quite small already. The guy managed to control it. At the end, still no bomba in sight. WOW! Amazing! Don’t think this is good. If not for that guy, I’m sure it would be worst!

The video of the fire…

Goosh… 26 years of my life, this is the 3rd time I called bomba -.-” Everytime by the time they arrived, fire got so small already except this time they didn’t come at all.