T'ANKQ, YOU!

I am be-mused by mGf TwistedHeels, on receiving my signed kopi, says all the way (OR awedawei?) from Germany, Danke, danke!, adding:

"When in Germany, do as the Germans do."

Back home, it's Terima kasih (Receive my love, how romantik!)
In Japan, it's Arigato! (Please correct Desi if I am wlong, I am no Nipponlang)
In Malaysia, the Chinoserie in me, it's Sieh, sieh!
In Mainland China, swept into a western frenzy of learnin' Engrish as a potential passport to the Land Of Dreams, US of A:
T'ankQ, You!

So back to mGf Theels, of course it's in culltural field that we all adapt to:

When in Rome, Do as the Romans do.
So as a tourist in Italiy, and you feel knotty, try pinching the Sophia Loren-lookalike, her posterior, I mean, her swaying backside.
She may share your sense of humour and take a swipe at thee with her sling-bag.
Worse, she may call the gendarme. Damn, damn! for Malaysian sense of rumour that all gals are fare game in Italie.

Which brings me back to some ten years back when a lecturer giving a Management lecture (Yes, a lecturer lectures, watelse? tokkok?) asks knottily (yeah, I could have inherited this trait from that burger; Dr Lewis, where art thou?):
When you in France (methinks, and you is a femail hear!) shake somebody's hand, and he twirls his middle finger in thy palam, what message is he sending you?

Silence. Longer silence. Pin-drop silence.
One smarkaleck with a funny-spelt nama like Stephan(norwich?) finaaly answered:
"Can you allow me to get into you?"

OBlimey me, I thought that was the Malaysian way in upmarket Bangsar! SarongPartyGal, anywan?

__________________________ SERIOUUUUUS MODE_________________________

From theSUN June 19, 2007 page 5:

Act if allegationsnot true, IGP urged

KUALA LUMPUR: Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan should take action if the allegations that police are not taking action against organised crime are not true.

Former IGP Tun Mohammed Hanif Omar said yesterday Musa should be concerned about recent allegations highlighted in a political website as the credibility of the police force will be damaged by such allegations.

"Police work requires credibility and public perception of the police's ability and willingness to function is extremely important," Hanif told reporters at a press conference following his induction as an honorary member of the Pudu Rotary Club.

"Thus, the management of public perception of the police force is very important."

Two weeks ago, it was alleged in a political website that gambling, loan-sharking, drugs and human trafficking in the peninsula was rampant as the authorities have been corrupt and turning a blind eye to such activities.

Asked whether Musa should come out to clarify the allegations, Hanif, who was IGP for 20 years, said:

"I will leave that to him and what he considers important or not. That is a question of perception.

"The IGP, surely, must be concerned if it is being damaged by something like this openly and if the allegations are not true, action should be taken," he told reporters

Hanif said inaction might cause people to take these allegations as being true and they might believe that the extent of corruption is the root of the problem.

"We may keep on tightening the laws but effective enforcement of the laws is the key (to solve the problems)," he said.

In his column in an English newspaper on Sunday, Hanif who had described the allegations as "exceptionally defamatory" and that " it won't not do for the maligned authorities to merely wish them away".

Earlier, during his talk on "The Malaysian Journey" at the Pudu Rotary Club luncheon, Hanif said when he was the IGP, the Rukun Tetangga neighbourhood watch patrols was introduced and people were keen to take part in it to safeguard their neighbourhoods.

However, when the crime rate had gone down, he said people stopped the patrols and that caused the crime rate to rise again.

"If you also have an efficient police force that is dedicated and cannot be bought (crime can be controlled). Otherwise, they (police) can allow crimes to grow if they are corrupt," he said.


DESIDERATA minus the humour and rumour:

I support the ex-IGP's stance.

I also recall the present IGP's stance when the Government announced a pay-price for all civil servants including the Police personnle, with the lowest ranks being lifted some 45% presummably out of the poverty line. Musa had said words to the effect: Now there is no excuse for policemen to be on the take (implying that previously, the temptation was there because many were living way below the poverty line...).

My initial thoughts were: Pak Lah has taken the initiative long propounded by the South-Of-The-Bother republic's government (Desi's take okay! If you beg to disagree, welcome to being a Voltaire's brood...If my ER should ask Desi whatImean, I shan't give thee an answer, for sometimes, Ignorance is Bliss:)

Suffice to conclude, this blardy lecturer at the Masters level has also preached when it comes to Corruption, like when the mata-mata caught you beating the lights as it turned Amber and you steal shot across:

"When in Rome, Do as the Romans do."


So How?

Dear Esteeemed Readers. YOU tell me --

(1) You do what most Malaysians would do -- pay the bugger RM30 on-the-spot to get out of the RM300 spot later?

(2) You behave like an Honourable Citizen Joe and Jane or TwistedHeels or Untwisted:

Ask the PC to do what he/she must do, and YOU just have to do what is THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

Borrrowing the tagline from the Transport Ministry's campaign against road accidents,

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!