another life snatched away

Another life snatched yesterday in Kuantan Berjaya Mega Mall. Last week it was the college student of TAR college. The people especially the lower income or some middle income have no jobs to support their families. Perhaps it can be the off-shoot of poverty that makes desperate people do desperate silly actions. People won't go living a life of crime. It has to be the butter and bread issues - supporting a life or family is the ingredient of peace on the streets or at home. If you take away the breadwinner base of ownership, you make one desperately pursuing a crime to make a living for his family or to sustain his needs to survive. Nowadays, companies are looking to recruit cheap labour or downsizing its organizational structures or factories shifting base of operations...eg Lever Brothers. Now Matsushita too is closing its operation by end of August affecting about 2,500 workers. The government should study the business closures and find out why. Yet I hear the government says it has secured so many billions of projects and forget the companies operating here for decades. Leaving the workers in a lurch and fending for families will take a heart-breaking exercise to bring a semblance of normalcy. Bearing in mind most of these workers are over 40years old who may have loans to pay....just imagine what will happen when money runs out. You think you can borrow money from banks to tide you over? The banks will close doors on your face. So leaving the option of robbery in any disguise just to survive. The local painter told me that the employer would take Indonesian workers who are cheaper to employ and the employer saves at least 50% compared to the local painter. The Indonesian worker gets $40-50 whereas the local gets $80-100 per day. Logistically, the employer will get the Indonesian painter leaving the local painter to ponder his faith in the working competition. Nearer to my place recently there was a robbery in the hair salon. About 4 people came with parangs and pistols (fake ones?)...couldnt be confirmed. The robbers took away about $4,000 cash plus valuables from the customers and owner. So when you visit your hair salon dont bring cash or valuables with you. Just bring sufficient money for the day....


Malaysia....the government is busy on 880 projects