Jekyll and Hyde

If you like to watch fire-works, Malaysia is the place to be. Come to my country where everyday is fire-works day. Most nights during the run-up to so many colourful festivals, the skies are lit up with sparkling colours bursting in sparkles of fire as people look in resounding awe at the splendour of the fireworks display.  

And in the day, you get fire-works in the form of faces being blown-off or trigger happy assassins ticking off targets on their to-do hit list quiet often. Yes, we have a very sick society here in our country. Foreigners with fake ID's issued gun license and given employment in high-risk place of work. The recent shooting cum robbery of a bank officer is testimony of an intense lack of responsibility by the authorities. They show no duty of care as to who they employ in their company. As long as they keep the cost low, anyone is "gainfully" employed in some company.

In this premise, we are at a total loss as to who might turn out to be that serial rapist, or that innocent murdering fb "friend", or a nice bank security officer turned murderer  and robber or a nice young man turn "jihadist" targeting victims with a "Allahhu Akbar" war-cry before stabbing and killing them or  a good cop turned crooked and looses his gun in a toilet. 

It has become so hard to trust the person standing next to you. I have been a victim once and since then I still view any stranger near me, a little suspiciously. Our failed education system is the result of this very sick and fearful society we live in. And those responsibly have to bear the full responsibility of creating such monsters within our society.   

Compared to all this unpredictable characters roaming our streets, I might be a saint ! And  the next time you are in a crowded place and you get ugly stares from a person standing next to you, don't stare back. He just might kill you !  

I am not linking this post to any news source today. You already know of  the above related gory tragedies of this past week and what I'm talking about, right ? 

Have a pleasant weekend and avoid all eye contact with strangers. 

Shalom !