International Human Rights Day

The International Human Rights Day is celebrated annually 10 December to commemorate the United nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation of Universal Declaration Of Human Rights on 10 December 1948.

As a layman, my honest observation is, some council members of UNHRC are basically a bunch of international outcasts. Some of them are blatantly racists and abusive in terms of rights records. To me, the UNHRC is basically an international fantasy club for human rights abusers trying to politically justifying their immoral abuses in their home countries by being a member. As long as the UN has no political and moral guts to evict these countries with questionable human rights records from UNHRC, human beings will forever suffer fool mentalities. 58 years had passed since its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly, but has the human rights records of member nations improved ? I doubt so ! All I see is, the UNHRC are more interested to continue to redefine the standards for defending and promoting Human Rights to make it more politically correct to appease Human Rights abusing nations.

On this noble day, would average citizens of the world take comforts to proudly acknowledge the achievement of "all human beings are born with equal and inalienable rights and fundamental freedoms" ? I doubt so ! All I see is, we are still behaving like animal trying to transgressed and compelled others to adopt our religions, we are still terrorize others trying to expand our political territories, we are still talking about special communal rights and privileges, etc, In summary, we are still barbarically trying to infringe on the rights of others to unfairly propagate our selfish and immoral needs. Sad to note that, in most countries, race and religion are still politically and legitimately being used to infringe on human rights shamelessly.

Can I trust the council members of the UNHRC to protect, defend, and promote human rights as enshrined in the document of Universal Declaration of human Rights which was release 58 years ago ? To all these council members of UNHRC, when you said the declaration guaranteed everyone's rights and freedoms to nondiscrimination, freedom of religions, rights to education, freedom of thoughts and expressions, equality of religion, culture, and race, etc. Please take a look at your own home countries. Human rights abusers defending the values of human rights ? I rolled my eyes, and I shake my head.... Actions are always inconsistent with words. Nay, you hypocrites made me puke !

Nevertheless, in the spirits of Human Rights, happy International Human Rights day. We are the world, may the world be a better place tomorrow......

26th Death Anniversary of John Lennon

John Winston Lennon ( 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) MBE, was the icon for rock and roll music in the 70s and 80s. He founded the famous "The Beatles" together with Paul McCartey and George Harrison. John Lennon has written and sang many memorable song such as "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance". On December 8th, 1980, John Lennon was shot dead by an unknown gunman outside his luxury apartment building. At the time of his death, he was 40 years old. Rest in Peace, Sir.

Weird law on SEX.

Here goes some of the very weird laws related to sexuality I just read :

In ancient China, the Tang Dynasty's Empress Wu Hu passed a special law concerning oral sex. She felt that a woman pleasuring a man represented the supremacy of the male over the female. Therefore, she insisted all visiting male dignitaries show their respect by pleasuring her orally when meeting. The empress would throw open her robe and her guest would kneel before her and kiss her genitals.

Under Lebanese law, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is forbidden.

In some countries it is prohibited to eat the sheep you had sex with. Eating the sheep that you just have sex with is a deadly sin.

In Guam, there are specialists called defloration-makers. These men go around the island to have sex with virgin for a professional fee. Because in Guam, it is forbidden to marry a virgin.

In Columbia, a woman is allowed to have sex only with her husband. The bride’s mother is required to be next to the newly wed during their very first sexual intercourse.

In 17th century Spain, it was illegal for anyone other than a woman's husband to see her bare feet. A woman could freely expose her breasts, but feet were considered sexual and had to be covered in the presence of men other than her husband.

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. The husband's lover may be killed in any manner desired.

It is illegal for a man and woman to have sex "on the steps of any church after the sun goes down" in Birmingham, England. But it is okay to do it under broad day light.

It's "an excusable act of passion" in Colombia, South America, for a man to murder his wayward wife when he finds the woman in bed with her lover. If the husband "personally witnesses the corrupt sexual activity," he's allowed to shoot his unfaithful spouse.

In the United Steaks of America, there are also equally weird laws governing sex related subjects. For example :

• Arizona - keeping more than two dildos at home is prohibited.
• Colorado - You can not kiss a sleeping woman.
• Connecticut - A man is forbidden from kissing his wife on Sunday.
• Florida - Man is not allowed to kiss woman’s bust during sexual intercourse.
• Massachusetts - Only “man on top” is allowed during sexual intercourse.
• Minnesota - Sex with birds is strictly prohibited.
• Minnesota - It is illegal for any man to have sexual intercourse with a live fish.
• Fairbanks, Alaska - moose are not allow to have sex on city streets.
• Oregon - It is a crime for a husband to curse during sex

In some countries, the men go around preaching morality and ethics, but demanded respect for their rights to have sexual intercourse with young underaged virgin girls.

OMG, it is a crime to be sexy ?

A Malaysia's religious political party, through the Municipal Council, has decreed that women who dressed "too sexily" may be fined RM 500. Women are advised to wear long skirts and loose long sleeved blouses. If being sexy is sinful, then would it not be sinful to use the fines collected from the "sinful" women ?

My dear learned religious men out there. Do whatever you want with your own religious values. Go ahead and be outraged with what other people wear and their beliefs. But keep those misplaced rages and values of yours to yourselves and contained it in your own family and religion.

Do you seriously believed that a woman who dressed sexily can contribute to increasing sex crimes ? If you are that spiritually and religiously righteous, would a slight distraction of a woman with sexy dress can cause you and your followers to commit sex crime ? Are women to be blamed for whatever social ills that arised ? Such ignorances and narrow mindedness never failed to amaze me.

Please learn to respect a lady's preferences and likings in whatever attires she preferred. How a woman attired herself is really none of the state's business. I happened to love to watch sexy women with sexy dresses. I may have the tendencies to have erotic delusions for woman with sexy dresses but that does not necessarily made me a sex maniac with ill intents to commit sex crimes. Simply because I respect women, and I am not chauvinistically uncultured to the extend that I can not control my own sexual urges.

I respected your rights to have your own interpretation of your religious' morality. By all means, practised and complied to your own interpretation of religious obligations and values. Would it be too much of a asking for you to appreciate a little bit of human decency to learn to respect the rights of others ? May I lightly remind you that my God does not allow you to impose your values on like minded people like me ? If I lead a "sinful" or a "deviated" life, please leave it to my God to judge me. You please keep your God and your values to yourselves. I mind my own business, maybe it is about time now you mind your own businesses.

I practise my religion's noble truths and walk the noble path at my own paces. Occasionally, I may deviate, but that is my rights. There are no transgressions, no compulsions, and definitely no misplaced hallucinations. Ultimately, I live in my promised nibbana - heaven is on earth. You have problem with what I want to belief ?

Frankly, like minded people like me have no problem with your attires and your perception of morality. Why are you being so obsessed and outraged with how other people attired themselves ?

How do you spell morality ? M O R O N I T Y ? I roll my eyes, I shake my head... I shake my head. Am I being sinful and immoral by reciting this little prayer of forgiveness - Om Namo Amithaba Buddha...... ?

Tonight I weep.......

Few days ago, I read in the local newspaper about a family driven into financial desperations, resorted to commit suicides. The story does have an impact on my mental well being. I felt sad and at the same time a sense of indignation. I tried to brush it off as a normal happening of this sickening society, but the images of these three beautiful boys lingered in my mind.....

With a heavy heart filled with sorrows and sadness, I take note that, three innocent and beautiful boys were murdered by their own parents. The three boys, Siew Cheung (12), Siew Man (10), and Siew Tong (8) were poisoned by their parents on Friday December 1st 2006. Subsequently, their parents, Seah Wong Chong and Kau Mei Lin committed suicides by slashing their wrists. However, Seah and Kau weree lucky to be discovered and their lives were saved by the city police. Seah (38) is a tour bus driver and Kau (38) is a hawker.

According to the local news reports, Seah and Kau have financial problems and resorted to borrow money from loan sharks. When they are unable to make the commitment to pay, the loan sharks harassed and intimidated them. It is indeed very sad that, when they are unable to take the pressures, they resorted to murder their own children and later attempted to commit suicides.

As a parent myself, I know how hard it is to lose your own child. I really don't know what is the states of the mind of Seah and Kau to be so heartless to terminate the innocent lives of their three beautiful children. There is a Chinese saying that "A ferocious a tiger will never devour its own offspring". Even animal respects the sanctity of the lives of their offspring. But we are not animals, what triggered the human minds into this barbaric insanity ?

I do not wish to judge Seah and Kau. I know they have been driven into temporary insanity to commit this inhumane crime. To judge them now is to add salts to their wounds. As a parent, I know their wounds will never heals and will forever bleeds in their hearts till they breathed their last breaths.

As usual, we consoled ourselves by saying that, there is a lesson to be learned here. But what lessons are we going to learn from this human tragedy ? Of course, it is easy to say that we should not resort to borrow money from loan sharks. But let us take a minute to consider this righteous proposition. Just closed your eyes and imagined. Supposed you are Seah, in an unenviable situation of being a marginalized minority, you have no stable jobs and you are not qualified to secure any small loans from legitimate financial institutions. But you still have to keep your family going. Who else can you turn to for financial help ? The government ? the MCA ? Seah did what he did, his only mean is to seek the help of loan sharks. But loan sharks are not charitable organizations, these loan sharks are barbarically creative when come to recovering their loans. As a result, Seah paid a heavy price for his mistake.

Do victims like Seah and Kau has a fair avenue to resolve their financial problems ? Would they be able to obtain help from the government ? If they have approached the MCA before they resort to this insanity, would Datuk Michael Chong help them to minimize their financial desperations ? If they seek help from their friends and relatives, would they be able to secure some small loans to tie over the bad times ? Honestly, I don't think they are able to get any help ?

I remembered, many years ago, when my son was less than 2 years old, and I was without a job and no money to buy foods for the next day, all my supposedly good friends deserted me. They avoided me because they are so afraid I may borrowed money from them. I seeked help from the church, but was chased out by the pastor because he thought I am too lazy to work. Honestly, at that time, I have a small life insurance policy, I actually wrote a small note to my wife and planned to commit suicide. But I was lucky then, in my last day wondering around the town looking for the best venue to make my grand exit, I bumped into a long lost friend whom I loaned him some money many years back. I told him my predicaments without telling him my intention to commit suicide. This friend bought me the best lunch, and later took me to his bank in Beach street and withdraw some money ( I believe he withdrawn all his money) from his account and passed it to me. With the small sum of money, I came down to Kuala Lumpur and never look back then.

The point here is, life is tough. I empathized with Seah and Kau for their financial predicaments. They are not criminals, they needed a short break but are unable to get any. Luck was not with them. Indirectly, they have been driven into insanity to commit barbaric murdering of their own lovely sons. Honestly, look around you, did you see some familiar faces in financial troubles ? Have you offer to help in sincerity ?

Politicians are good at making their righteous statements with no concrete actions, and they are only good at paying last respects to to the deads. Believe it or not, 80% of the Malaysians resorted to loan sharks are the Chinese. And there has been too many incidents of human tragedies resulted from the immoral intimidations and harassments of loan sharks. There will never be any ending to these human tragedies as long as we are only good at paying last respects.

Sincerely, I do hope, with all the sinful taxes collected, the government and political parties can set up a fund to help all needy Malaysian irregardless of race and religion. I do hope, all of us can be a bit more sensitive to our friends and relatives who is in need of help.

We have a pair of ears, a pair of eyes, and one mouth. Human tragedies can be avoided if all of us can speak less but listen and see doubly hard to be sensitive and help people in need.

To Seah and Kau, your lovely sons do not deserved to die and you have no right to take their lives away. I sincerely pray to God that the almighty forgive your sins and allowed you to start life afresh. To Siew Cheung , Siew Man, and Siew Tong, life has never been fair to you, I pray that the kind angels shall take good care of you in the beautiful garden of God. May God bless your souls, and may you all rest in peace.

Om Namo Amithaba Buddha.