shafie denied paying an actress

The star front page on 24 April 2012 carried a shocking news about a minister, Datuk Shafie Apdal, The Rural and Regional Development Minister. A man was hired to be a driver for a local starlet with the intent to keep a close tab of her movement. It was claimed that the minister was paying her a large amount of money for the relationship. It did no elaborate the activities involved in the relationships ans what the payment was made for,

The working relationship between the hired driver in the starlet turned sour and the driver was accused of taking some of the money for himself. To clear his name, the driver made a police report. The driver claimed that the minister met the starlet on weekly basis and paid through the driver between rm100,000 and rm200,000 to be banked. In Oct 2011,she received rm58,000, Rm112,000 in No and RM330,000 in Dec and RM510,000 in Jan 2012.

That was a lot of money. He admitted to receive RM25,693 for her sport car.

As expected the Minister denied it. I think, if the government want to clear his name, it is too easy,As the payment was made by cheque, the data is available at the bank.If they want to avoid it, they will say...' please prove what you accuse". If payment were made prove it, and it is difficult as banks data is secret.

Plight of the Trainee Doctors

I was reading with anger the news about the death a trainee doctors, presumably under the houseman ship. Lee 29 years was found dead in a restroom in Kajang hospital with used syringe likely to drug used to fight fatigue.

I was naive when I imagined that the doctors working "on call" were like an airline pilots staying at home on standby. When my daughter was doing her houseman, only then I realized that how cruel the system was. On call was to mean to continue working for the second shift. She was doing the morning shift, 7 am to 7 pm, then she was on call , that mean she continued to work 7pm to 7 am the next day. On the next day, she will continue her normal shift. She she working her 36 hr shift.

I thought that it is crazy. You may have thought that the bosses of the hospitals are able to think logically. How could you expect the doctors to discharge her duties when he/she is too tired.

It was reported that Lee was working for his 5 consecutive days. As expected, the hospital tried to deny the report. We hope no cover up and no redo and modification of the records and rosters just to save someone's head.