slavery my ass!!!

Slavery (also called thralldom) is a social-economic system under which certain persons — known as slaves — are deprived of personal freedom and compelled to work.
Slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and are deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to receive compensation (such as wages) in return for their labor. As such, slavery is one form of unfree labor.
In its narrowest sense, the word slave refers to people who are treated as the property of another person, household, company, corporation or government. This is referred to as chattel slavery

i dont think this is what happenning to cristiano ronaldo. by the way, i would agree selling him to real madrid. the money could be use to buy another players like what sir alex did last season.

where is the love?

Paying big for a little love
A Writer's LifeBy DINA ZAMAN

Ever heard of women paying for sex in Malaysia? Well, they're around and pay good bucks for selected studs.
When an acquaintance told me that she engaged in the services of male escorts, the confession knocked me back for six.
To say I was shocked would be an understatement.
For a good while, I was struck dumb. I have many people and friends confessing all sorts of sordid secrets to me, but this took the cake. This had to be the winner of them all.
And allow me to add this: this woman is successful, is of mixed-race parentage and has many men asking her out. She does not need to pay for company or sex. She however chose a different route.
So. Was this the height of the feminist movement then, the emancipation and empowerment of a woman’s sexual life? Now that women have broken corporate class ceilings and can have it all, getting in on the game like how men have done for thousands of years was a sign of gender triumph. Or was it, really?
It started because she was curious, and then the practicality of such an arrangement won her over. It was business, and that was how she liked it.
She called the shots – it was easy to be a female punter, because the opportunities were right in her face, and they were subtler. None of the drive-by, walking into a brothel and picking up a sex worker. For a woman with means, it can be anywhere: a café, nightclub, even at the theatre. Shopping at high-end retail outlets is another source too.
It was a rather informative conversation my friend and I had that night. Some of the things I gleaned from her were:
> She was in control. She interviewed them personally, checked them up and down and made sure the size of the package was to her liking;
> Race played a part in safer sex – the Malay gigolos hated wearing condoms but Chinese “rent-boys” practised safe sex. She had never come across Indian male sex workers, she said. There was a white tourist though, who wanted to make a few extra bucks for his travels;
> The Chinese men she had had liaisons with were professionals who wanted a pleasurable side income. The rest? They weren’t thinking of a future; and
> The men were so sweet and very nice. (Urm, at RM200 per hour, anyone can be sincere.)
This was true feminism, she claimed, and told me to stop gaping like a goldfish, for as a writer who has written on sensitive matters, I was expected not to judge.
After all, what was she doing wrong? The old, saggy socialites and datins dancing their sad lonely nights away in nightclubs keep younger men. Those boys knew what they were getting into.
What about women our age, who marry rich men, solely for their money? That’s legalised prostitution, she said. I, she pointed her finger at me, was a romantic fool.
Also, what choices does a single woman in her late thirties have? Married men? Not kosher. Polygamy? It’s an insult to women.
Lastly, she told me, her boys weren’t like my Chow Kit sex workers. Thank you very much.
As an employee of a public health and human rights NGO, this was a bit hard to swallow. I may be new to the Malaysian HIV/AIDS scenario, working with the poor and marginalised community, but I felt this trivialised and demeaned the sex trade, which, for the matter, is a violent industry.
It violates the rights of women, children and yes, men too (to me feminism is human rights, and this covers all genders and ages).
Gender theories on sex work aside, how does this impact on a woman’s well being? Her sexual health?
The feminisation of HIV in this country is a worrying situation. UNAIDS reported in its 2006 report on the global AIDS epidemic, in South-East Asia alone, women represented 29% of adults living with HIV. The infections are heterosexually-transmitted HIV cases.
A large number of them are housewives. The Malaysian Health Ministry June 2007 report stated that 2.4 women were infected with HIV each day.
Current studies also show that young women are several times more likely than young men to contract the disease through heterosexual contact. Now the collected data shows that female people living with HIV (PLHIV) are housewives, sex workers and intravenous drug users (IDUS).
As a colleague, Dr Karina Razali pointed out, we have made a gross mistake of inferring “disempowered women” as poor innocent victims of HIV, while the marginalised groups are treated as the “cause” of it all.
We have not taken into account, and must consider women who take their sexual lives in their hands, and are open to health risks too.
Female sex tourism is on the rise, and as more and more women take charge of their intimate lives, these behaviours must be accounted for when we talk about health and social issues.
It’s all well and good to tut-tut behind closed doors and in smart restaurants, but we need to realise and discuss that the sexual landscape in Malaysia, yes, Muslim Malaysia, is changing very fast.
Our population is smaller, the psychological make-up of our demographic is conservative and really, are we equipped for a sexual revolution? We can’t even run our country properly!
Perhaps I am conservative and not keeping with modern, liberated times. But I do not believe that owning our bodies, and our intimate lives mean participating in the sex trade.
It does not matter if a woman is in control; I have spoken to sex workers in my line of work and in this industry, at whatever level – from the thousand ringgit Eastern European call girl to the young boy cruising in food courts at shopping malls - women, and men, are vilified and treated violently.
Perhaps, as my friend said, my sex workers are worlds apart from her rent-boys, but prostitution is human slavery. This is about the trafficking of lives and bodies, in exchange for money under the illusion of love and relief.
The writer wants to balik kampung and bury herself in sand.

taken from the star online

comment: this is not new to me as i got an offer similar to this before. yep, i'm not making up story. i was offered rm 200 ringgit for an hour. well it's a modern, competitive, vigorous world and nothing wrong about it actually because everybody has their own reason. ones have to know by him or herself whats good and bad. it just calling of human nature. well better than killing another life. makes love not war!

kl calling...

Thursday, July 17, 2008

What a reason to give for arrest

Posted by: ak2lac

What can I say? The CID Chief has explained his reason for arresting Anwar, but I can't help myself but lament, what a silly reason that was.

The arrest was made based on an ASSUMPTION that Anwar would not adhere to the deadline given. Would it not have made SENSE if the arrest was made after 2pm, and only if Anwar failed to meet the deadline?

This is way too much. To me, this is akin to a teacher spanking students on Tuesday, for the fear of students not submitting assignments on Wednesday, which is the deadline for submission. ??? Would anyone tolerate such nonsense?

Sigh...

taken from the star online.

comment: aku tak terkejut dengan perlakuan dan pendekatan PDRM kerana sungguh jelas yang sistem undang-undang di malaysia ni memang melindungi kepentingan sesetengah pihak dan ini cukup membuktikan yang rakyat harus berjuang dengan seluruh kekuatan untuk mendaulatkan keadilan. lets strive for justice, escalate freedom not control.

minyak ke nyanyok?

sekarang ni semacam serba tak kena dengan segala-gala. nak aku luahkan satu-satu rasanya macam tak cukup skrip nak tulis tapi hati ni resah menjelang hari yang akan mencatatkan sejarah yang tersendiri dalam hidup aku. mungkin aku cuma panik dengan fikirkan yang bukan-bukan dan macam-macam, mungkin juga. yang pastinya ini adalah misi membina hidup yang baru dan akan menempuh cabaran yang sebenar kelak. aku teruja. tentu sekali teruja sambil mengira wang dalam saku yang tak seberapa tapi aku usahakan walaupun kena berkorban banyak keinginan. aku kira kalau tak sekarang akan datang nanti. jadi apalah nak ditolak kalau rezeki didepan mata. aku bersyukur kepada yang Maha Esa. aku sedar yang aku lalai dalam menjalankan ibadat aku namun aku sentiasa menagong akan kebesaranNya. aku bukan nak berkhutbah kat sini. aku cuma nak menyedarkan diri sendiri sambil kamu semua diluar sana juga sedar tentang perkara tersebut. sekejap tadi, aku ada terlihat kat tv mengenai debat Anwar dengan Shabery. tentu sekali macam langit dan bumi kalau nak dibandingkan gaya pemikiran dua individu, satu, seorang ikon keadilan dan kebangkitan rakyat, yang satu lagi, kail panjang sejengkal, lautan dalam hendak diharungi. bukan aku nak mengadili. dari pendapat aku. kalau tak setuju, silalah sangkal. aku sentiasa menerima semua kritikan sebab aku yakin akan apa yang aku fikirkan dalam minda ini. bukan tiada ruang langsung untuk idea lain, tapi aku rasa, sekarang ni adalah masa yang sesuai untuk kita luruskan apa yang terbengkok. naik malu pun ada, kelakar dan aku rasa jika itulah kredibiliti untuk menjadi menteri, sungguh ramai di luar sana yang layak menjadi menteri. marilah kita semua bersama menjadikan amalan adil, jujur, amanah, dan bertanggungjawab menjadi asas kehidupan kita.

office politic suck!!

hari ni 13th July, im still no where. do you understand me? nope? im nowhere with my monthly goals. im talking about work. ya,ya, i know...work again..aku ada teori tentang progress aku dengan perkembangan kerja aku sekarang. and it's involving office politics!! everywhere you go, u will never run from it. it's everywhere!! i know there's a good leads and the bad leads..well i know right now i've been getting the bad leads. feel suck and betrayed!! everybody should be treated fairly. don't you think so? if this continuously happen, i think i might be run out of business. some measure should have been taken so it will not last for so long and it will stop immediately!! the party involved in this matter should be warn!!