My Longkang

How long can you survive if you lose your job? Most of us take our jobs for granted. They are our life line to survival. Few of us can last for a prolonged period without jobs. With unemployment comes depression, loss of self-esteem and an empty wallet.

A wife and her son were about to leave the house in their car when her husband insisted on joining them. When he got into the car, he demanded for money. She told him she had no money. This infuriated the husband who then took out a rope to strangle the wife. He then proceeded to stab her nape and left side of her chest.

The teenage son was initially shocked but tried his best to release his father’s hold on his mother’s neck. He was then stabbed repeatedly until he lost consciousness. The woman by then had run out of the car and into a neighbour’s house.

While I sympathize with people who lose their jobs, this kind of act leaves a sour taste in the mouth. However I notice more people are experiencing financial hardship than before in Sibu. People are looking for jobs, or helping out with ‘family and friends’. Among the people I know, more are experiencing family problems as ties get strained due to wife/husband/mother/father forced to leave the town/state for employment.

There is another case where a 13 year-old who was left with his 18-year-old brother stopped going to school for about six months before anyone knew anything about it. The father had asked the neighbour to leave food for his son. They did. They put it in a tiffin like container on the doorstep everyday.

The elder brother left for work early every morning and came home late at night.

Source:The Borneo Post

A middle-aged female hawker, Ling, was approached by an 8 month pregnant woman, Tiong, to help adopt her child on Sept 19. She was asked to pay Rm1000.00 to help pay for Tiong’s expenses. Apparently she had five children already and was unable to feed another mouth. The lady hawker in her 50s initially refused but changed her mind out of sympathy. She visited the lady and saw 5 children aged between 3 and 8, pale and hungry sleeping on the floor. There was no furniture be it chairs or a table in the house.

The hawker, surnamed Ling then signed an agreement with the couple on the matter. Periodically she went to check on the mother and child. One day, she received a call from the woman’s husband asking for another Rm700.00 for medical expenses and for flight tickets back to Sibu. She was told the woman had delivered in Kuching.

She paid and that is the last she heard from them. No RM1700.00 and no baby.

She has reported the matter to the police. The police are investigating the case under section 402 of the Penal Code. The identities of the couple are believed to be known to the police. The woman had been arrested in 2005 for abducting a baby boy.

Character : Barry, 28 year old male 1.68m and 60kg. An IT whizz and with a passionate love for speeding and fast cars.

Barry: I received a phone call. Gave them my full name, bank account number, house phone number too. They said I had won HKD300 000 in a lucky draw. I am so lucky. I knew it could be a trick. I gave them an old account which has less than RM20.00 in it. I got nothing to lose. Later on this same guy told me to release the money I had to sign an authorization letter permitting them to deposit money into my account. They sent me such a document through e-mail with the names of an organzation, another bank account next to mine and the name and address of a lawyer. I signed it in a strange way so that the bank would be suspicious. A day later he called me after that to say the signatures don’t match.
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Pic courtesy of the Borneo Post

There was a conversation going on at lunch today. I happened to be the only guy. The contents portrayed to me a different society from what i thought it was. It is a sign of the changing times.

Background: A bride was raped on her wedding night by her cousin-in-law. He was drunk and left her to go back to his room and slept. When the police came, he was still drunk.
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Video Jess out on bail
Finally Jess Teh Hooi Wen is out on bail. To me that is a wonderful thing because it means that the police don’t hold her responsible for the death of her daughter.

Her family posted bail. The charge is for jointly possessing 1.5gm of cannabis at an apartment in Bandar Baru Air Itam with her boyfriend Ong Chee Leong. Her family also posted bail for lodging a false missing person’s report and another RM3,000 for consuming methamphetamine.
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Yin Yin’s mother’s boyfriend , ex-karaoke lounge manager Ong Chee Leong, 28 was charged with the murder of Shearwey Ooi Ying Ying

The murder is alleged to have occurred at the Sri Impian Apartment, Lengkok Angsana, Bandar Baru Air Itam between 7.30am and 6.30pm on July 5, 2007. He is jointly charged with Jess Teh Hooi Wen, Ying Ying’s mother, with possessing 1.5gm of cannabis at another apartment in Solok Angsana, Farlim, Air Itam.

Bail of RM4000 was allowed for the drug charge. The cases would be mentioned on Sept 14 pending a chemist report and a post mortem report.

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A witness tells how the accused Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri led cops to the murder site where Mongolian national Altantuya Shariibu was shot and then blown up. Bone fragments and skeletal remains were found.

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About 200 people turned up out of curiosity to view the couple, Ong Chee Leong, 29, and Jess Teh, the mother of Yin Yin appear in court. Their remand has been extended by four days.

They were greeted with shouts of “animals” and “dogs”. Some one called Yin Yin’s mother chau cha boh (“evil woman” in Hokkien).

They were detained to help with investigations into the death of Teh’s three-year-old daughter.

Both pics courtesy of Kwong Wah Yit Poh

I cannot fathom how Ying Ying’s mum and the boyfriend could have ended up together. I mean, she was separated, in the midst of a divorce and having a child who needed attention. He had 2 kids of his own, is divorced and apparently had a brush with the law before. What drew them together was what haunted me.

Jess Teh is beautiful. What lead the two of them to pair up, only
they can tell. But I don’t believe in destiny or karma in this case. A case of something that went very wrong and awry.

I have posted a link to newspaperasia1.com
for you to read their analysis.
video of reaction from Penang folks
video of press conference from Jess Teh’s family

family feud

The passing of Ying Ying has triggered a family feud betwen the maternal and paternal grandparents.

Actually, in my opinion, it was bound to happen. It is nothing personal against each other. But the circumstances are too difficult for them to digest. They need to vent their frustrations some where. My heart goes out to both families.

Nobody wanted it to happen. But it has happened. Ying Ying’s grandfather, Ooi Choon Peng, 52, a hawker, who sobbed throughout the press conference felt hurt by comments against his son.

“My granddaughter is dead and they want to put the blame on my son? He (Eng Chew) has told me he now plans to leave this ‘place of sadness’,” he said yesterday and urged police to solve the case quickly.

Meanwhile the police have stressed that Ying Ying’s dad is not a suspect.

Ying Ying’s paternal grandmother described her granddaughter as a cute girl. “She was an obedient child. Ying Ying is dead. There is no need to act like this since we have not come out and blamed them.”

Meanwhile all evidence has been sent to the Chemistry Department in Kuala Lumpur for analysis.