News update:
Still no good news yet and the British media are getting pretty creative with the kinds of stories they are coming up with. Try reading this story “I Find Dead People – A Day in the Life of a Human Remains (Cadaver) Detection Dog” that appeared in K9 Magazine Issue 5. There are stories expressing sympathy for Shannon’s family here and from city councillors here. The community have come forward in full force dropping leaflets here, showing massive support here, hold a march and a vigil here and turn out in droves to search for her here. Yet, there is no sign of this sad little girl who just wanted to be with her dad! It took her mysterious disappearance, to only God knows what fate, to make us all realise how vulnerable children can be. Will we ever learn?
Since finding out about nine-year-old Shannon Matthews disappearance from Kak Teh, I make a point of checking Google news for news of her rescue as well as that of Sharlinie Mohd Nashar and Madeleine McCann. Alas, each day passes and I am bereft of good news on all three counts. Sitting here in front of this computer that connects me to the borderless world where the good, the bad, the ugly and the utterly disgusting mingle in uncensored freedom, I ponder why should it matter the loss of Shannon way over there in West Yorkshire when our own Sharlinie is still missing here?
For me, I am keeping track of the media coverage for Shannon and it has been quite an educational experience indeed. Only a week after her disappearance have the West Yorkshire police finally declared that she may have been abducted as reported here, here, here, and here. Like us in the search for Sharlinie here, hope is all the police have left in the search for Shannon here, amidst fears for the worst here. The community too has pulled together to help in the search here and here, with 500 calls received here.
The UK police even do strange things like trawl a pond here and here, quiz 1,500 motorists here, dig up the uncle’s garden here, search CCTV footage here, search house to house here leaving no stone unturned here. The cops also rummage rubbish bins and dive into sewers here and use sniffer dogs that trace the remains of a dead child in a fomer children’s home here and lists all their efforts here. Alas, to no avail! Interesting articles include talking about grief here and stories of survivors of child abduction and rape here and one asking readers who may feel troubled by the stories and in need of counselling to contact someone but I can’t find that article. Will update you if I find it again.
Anyway, like many people, I await good news on either of these girls and for many more missing children out there. Will those candidates going house to house to campaign in the run up to 8 March, 2008 please also be on the lookout for Sharlinie. The rakyat could sure use some good news that no one can dispute right now!
I wonder if the West Yorkshire folks spend their time complaining and blaming each other in light of little Shannon Matthew’s disappearance… and perhaps write an open letter to their inspector offering their search-service and also making demands for money?
Meow.
Ooooooo…very the kucing! That bites! But then, nobody does meow-like things better than us Malaysians……..cats-a-catting like mad this election season! Now you made me miss the good ol’ Alleycats! Those guys were great. Now there’s a truly Malaysian band. Gotta go look for their videoclips on YouTube…..later kiddo!
Pssttt……meowing is stress relieving!
My mother loves the Alleycats and she was very upset when Loganathan Arumugam passed away. Alleycats was great, no mistake about that. I once passed by them doing a performance in a bar at the Curve, and I was awe-struck by how amazing they sounded. Then they did their rendition of The Red Hot Chilli Pepper’s The Zephyr Song and I was completely blown away. They were very energetic, talented and strong performers. It was fantastic!