RULING, hugging, KISSING XoXo

YL CHONG appears as one mGf'sGUEST BLOGGER!

ChallengiA: What does XoXo stand for.
PRIZE: autographed bottles of XO from a teAtotaller for FIRST 3 left entries!

He says it's a serious case of KILLING TWO BIRDS WITH ONE pebble!

This morning's pick is ezy as X, Y , Z. Why not A, B, C?
That's because Desiderata likes going against the flow of traffic -- up the one-way street, and maybe create some harmony along the way when angry fellow Malaysians show me the international peAce sign minus one finger.

I return the compliments with my Guide's Pledge signature.


But sometimes going against the norm can invite trouble with a Kapital T. Ooops, we are speaking English here, so it's Capitol T. Hey, the White House is not in Koala Lumpuh. I know, I know -- we're gettin' there. We o'lay have the tallest Twin Towers in the 'hole widee worlde, yes! I added an "e" to wide because I had foreseen I was adding an "e" to world, so it's being consistent and in abeyance to the twinning concept.

If you LOST Desi up to this point, no worries. wedNURSEdae is a goode time to feel like Li'l Boy Blue as there are many missies around to tend to your hell...ooop, health.

Okay, Da Nu'es: Page 1, theSUN shining not too brightly at some parks...and Da Darkness may envelope quite many parts of the country, or bodies, if the final ruling portended by this initial ruling is as ominous as my Superstar Virgo sailing out of sin-harbour at 4pm on a Saturday, and Desi has replaced one fishy taeler being tied to the pole as the ..nth storey desert Desi&Co for lovelier company. Dang! Or is it Dung! Dunk?


HUGGING AND KISSING IN PUBLIC
"Freedom or indecent behaviour?"

'The students should be given freedom to live but
there was serious infringement by the Datuk Bandar
of the two students' fundamentallll liberty and constitutional rights.' - Lawyer S. Selvam

'So, they should be given fredom to live as they like?
The coonstitution allows all citizens to do that
(hugging and kissing) even by the roadside, in public park?'

'In England, those acts ....."

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- Chief Justice Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim


DESIDERATA:

:If you want aMORE, please rush to the nearest 7ELEVEN nigh you. Repeat offence, Dang/Dung/Dunk!!!



No kissing please, we are Malaysians!

PUTRAJAYA: The local government has the power to establish by-laws to prosecute citizens who behave disorderly in public, the Federal Court ruled yesterday.

Chief Justice Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim, together with Federal Court judges Datuk Alauddin Sheriff and Datuk Richard Malanjum, unanimously held that the Datuk Bandar of Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) was correct to charge two students for behaving indecently by hugging and kissing at Kuala Lumpur City Centre Park.

The court ruled that Section 8 (1) of the Park By-Laws, the section invoked by the Datuk Bandar to punish persons caught behaving indecently in public was constitutional.

Following the ruling, two students, Ooi Kean Thong, 24, and Siow Ai Wei, 22, will have to defend themselves against the charge levelled against them at the Kuala Lumpur City Hall Court.

Their case is fixed for mention on June 1. Both had pleaded not guilty to committing the offence at the park at 5.20pm on Aug 2 2003.

If convicted, they could be fined not exceeding RM2,000 or jailed up to a year, or both.

Ahmad Fairuz said the (Federal) court's answer to constitutional question referred to them, whether Section 8 (1) is ultra vires the Local Government Act 1976 and infringed Article 5 (1) of the Federal Constitution (relating to freedom of life) was in the negative.

The two students had challenged the validity of Section 8 (1) contending that the Local Government Act 1976 which is the parent act governing local authorities did not empower the Datuk Bandar to make local by-laws on matters of decency.

They alleged that they were given a summons because they refused to bribe the enforcement officers. In January last year, the two officers pleaded not guilty to corruption charges in the Sessions Court and their case is pending.

Counsel S. Selvam, for the students, submitted yesterday that the Datuk Bandar had failed to consider the fact that Malaysia is a multiracial country and that the act of hugging and kissing is an expression of love which should be encouraged.

"The students should be given freedom to live but there was serious infringement by the Datuk Bandar of the two students' fundamental liberty and constitutional rights," he said.

Ahmad Fairuz said: "So, they should be given freedom to live as they like? The constitution allows all citizens to do that (hugging and kissing) even by the roadside, in public park?

"In England, those acts are acceptable to the people in that country but is kissing and hugging acceptable to Malaysian citizens? Is the act according to the morality of the Asian people?"

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A parallel to yesterday' snippet titled: "Sexy media a siren call to promiscuity: Study" with two-paragraph reprised -

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Sexually charged music,
magazines, TV and movies push youngsters into intercourse
at an earlier age, perhaps by acting as kind of virtual peer
that tells them everyone else is doing it, a study said Monday.

"This is the first time we've shown that the more kids are exposed
to sex in media the earlier they have sex," said Jane Brown of the University of North Carolina, chief author of the report.

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is the following from theSUN web edition:


Heavier TV watching may mean earlier sex for teens

NEW YORK (Reuters Health): Certain teenagers who watch more television are more likely to become sexually active than those who spend less time in front of the tube, a new study shows.

Dr. Sarah Ashby of the University of Wisconsin School of Public Health in Madison and her colleagues found that, among a group of 4,808 boys and girls younger than 16, those who said their parents strongly disapproved of sex -- nearly three quarters of the group -- were more likely to start having sex in the following year if they watched two hours or more of TV daily.

The findings, appearing in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, support the hypothesis that "kids who are at overall lower risk of initiating sex may be more influenced by things that they see," Ashby told Reuters Health. For teens who don't sense parental disapproval, she added, "the cat is already out of the bag." Parental disapproval in itself did indeed cut the risk of kids becoming sexually active -- 12.5 percent of these teens started having sex, compared to 24.1 percent of those who didn't feel their parents disapproved of sex.

Among kids who sensed parental disapproval, the more TV they watched, the greater their likelihood of becoming sexually active -- up to a point.

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DESIDERATA kindly invites my ER to add fuel and water to the above goings-on.
His wee cuntriBUtion is a reprisal from his bookie of pomes of knotti ditties, please note today I'm takling lots of liverties with the Queen ...oops, add 's English!:)
If you find my Posting a TORMENT, wait until DARK when You're Caught In The PARK!



If Truth Be Told
(Not the first time/dime...)

In a land not far, far away
So near you hear its heartbeat every day

Once the minister of television declared
“We’ll manufacture a local series to outclass Dallas!”

After decades and much murky water
Had flowed under the Bridge of Scandals

Leaders continue to exhort of the populace:
Don’t watch blue movies or VCDs, it’s a social evil.

Meanwhile, they yumseng till the break of dawn
And under the cover of darkness chieftains plundered
Yet others plucked the flowers
Off under-aged virgin girls.

Politicians and court jesters are so creative
This land needs no fiction writers
‘Stead of soap operas, TV offers wayang and sandiwara
Their juiciness surpass the wildest Image-ine of the CollinsSis

There’s the saga of one with millions headed Down Under
Apparently he’d not heard of cheques or Amex
Poor chap – onetime a graduate teacher - he landed up in court
He hardly understood “that darn’d bastard immigration form” in Inggeris.

Then another made a girl full of body
Claimed the fruit was donated by a best friend
Well, in typical Asian cheer, the reluctant host must not decline
The guest’s bosomy generosity in any kind.

Live episodes entertain the people more than Hollywood’s Dynasty
Proving true blue that “Fact is stranger than fiction”

When naked Truth is revealed, sometimes ingenuously concealed,
Of under-cover trails and trysts in KL’s penthouses.
When lesser souls are caught in similar bind with their pants down
In cheap lodging houses, or even just holding hands in public parks
They charge the poor blighters with khalwat (close proximity)

While upper classes continue to frolic with impunity cum immunity.

The above (lust pub'ished half a decade ago?) was prompted by the many instances of “public scandals” involving leading Malaysians which hogged both local and international media headlines at the time of occurrence; any decent Malaysian must at one time or another have bowed his/her head in “shame” for the graphic details of the “homosexual or sodomy” acts being described in public. And a semen-stained mattress being hauled to court as an “exhibit” – what a way to progress sex education! If I were to write in prose about the politics of my home country, and the shenanigans of the players of those “interesting” times, it will be certainly going into territory “where angels fear to tread”. I’d rather be with angelic company than risk spending solitary confinement in a cold, dank cell (with most likely other political animals for cell-mates to boot!). Putting down in verse some of these episodes allows for some freedom of speech, and the release of pent-up outrage and indignation at the goings-on. Poetry provides writers with a medium to test greater “intellectual” latitude. May we be blessed with leaders who can appreciate poetic communication, especially of the satirical kind.

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