Yeap, time to wipe off the dust off this page. Been a month or so since I last rant. It's March and it's been raining like it's December all over again these last few days. While it's cooler, I don't really enjoy the rain. Almost everyone prefers an overcast sky. Not too hot, not too wet, just nice.
Princess just turned 5 months 2 days ago and how she has grown. I know this is the point where some people start thinking, "Oh no, another over-enthusiastic parent". Truth is, no parent can ever stop enthusing about their own kid. I'm no different. I amaze myself at how, between the 2 of us (my wife and I), lucky we are to have a really cute girl. There I go again. Seriously, though, I could almost jump for joy everytime someone passes by Izza's stroller, takes a peek and comments, "She's really beautiful".
Enough about her for now though.
The news now (kinda stale though) is about the disappearance of Mas Selamat Kastari. I know there have been various reports with regards to this, and we have yet to include the various rumours and speculations currently making its rounds in Singapore. The question that keeps being asked is where is he. Kind of a dumb question, but all the major newspapers were carrying that headline a few days ago. I mean, if anyone, besides Mas Selamat himself, could answer that, I'm sure the authorities would have swooped in on him. Why ask where he is when we all know where he went.
A toilet break.......
Yeah, I know. Lame. I can't help it. I really find it hard to fathom how a country that posesses one of the lowest crime rates in the world, one that has an efficient government and a diligent law enofrcement agency could fall for such a dumb trick. "Sir, I need a toilet break". Those were probably the last words anyone in a blue uniform has heard from him since. I experienced this trick almost first hand when I was serving National Service. A soldier went AWOL and returned to the camp reeeaaalllyyyy late. He was charged the next day and was sent to the lockup in the guardhouse while waiting to be charged. He told the Regimental Police (RP) guard that he needed a toilet break and promptly climbed out the unsecured ventilation window, clambered over the back gate and disappeared. He wasn't caught till a few years later when I left NS.
I mean if a dumbass soldier who went AWOL can manage to escape through that method, I would have thought that that avenue of escape would have been denied to such a high profile detainee at such a high security establishment such as the ISD. I really pity whoever it was who let his guard down so as to allow a high profile detainiee such as Mas Selamat Kastari escape. I mean, the RP Sergeant who was on duty during the soldier's escape only managed to escape a heavy punishment because it was not a really big issue in the wider context, one can only imagine the fate that awaits that unlucky soul who let this happen if the commision's inquiry to this event concluded that it was personal negligence that caused it.
One thing I am happy for is that his escape did not coincide with my NS unit's callup. I know for sure we would have been activated to assist in this operations, seeing how my unit was involved as 3rd tier backup during the IMF/World Bank Meeting. Like they did not have enough security then.
To Mas Selamat, thanks for bringing life to our mostly sedate lives and good luck trying to escape the dragnet. May you be caught sooner rather than later so thay the jams in the Woodlands Checkpoint do not last for much longer.
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