After appearing once and making a boo-boo about plasticine you went missing because you knew you were in for some frying from defence counsel J Chandra and Gobind Deo, I am just hoping that that training course in Taiwan has taught you how to be a professional cop and thus throw back at Gobind the tag he tatooed on you, i.e. you are a useless investigator.

If you do not appear, I will suggest to the Police Instpector General, to have you assigned to an investigation that is not so taxing and that requires less investigatibe skills - go look for the three pairs of shoes stolen from Tun Daim's house.

Let's recap a little bit to get a better picture of what this posting is all about:

Thursday, 09 October 2008

Superintendant Gan Tack Guan, the chief investigator of the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu said that it was not C4 which was used to blow up her body. He said “If I am not wrong, one kind of plasticine explosive was used to blow up her body at an empty place at Puncak Alam.

It was not C4 (a type of explosive),” Supt Gan, who is Interpol’s National Centre Bureau assistant director based at Bukit Aman, told the packed courtroom.

Questioned further by Gobind Singh, Supt Gan said he did not know how the explosive was placed on the woman’s body before it was detonated.

“I was together with (another investigating officer) Asst Supt Tonny Lunggan," he said, prompting Gobind Singh to retort that “you are a useless investigating officer”.(Tonny is the guy who invited PI Bala for fish-head curry dinner the same day he made his first Statutory Declaration. YES?)

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Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin claimed the prosecution was deliberately delaying his sedition trial when the complainant in his case was not available to be questioned by his defence team on Thursday 18 Dec 2008.

“Why must the prosecution bring this case to court today just to amend the charge and postpone it?,” Raja Petra, 58, told the Sessions Court.

“How long are we going to wait for Supt Gan Tack Guan (chief investigator in the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case and the complainant in Raja Petra’s sedition trial)?

“He was on medical leave earlier and is now gone for training,” he said

He was on medical leave earlier and is now gone for training,”

(The court went into recess to await the Medical Certicate. I just wonder if the MC was obtained from a Government Hospital, as required, and did it indicate that the applicant was unfit for work?)

What training! He is training on how to 'manufacture evidences' and how to fine tune the art of cut and paste job.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Supt Gan Tack Guan (chief investigator in the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case) was not subpoenaed. Then why fix date for trial if one is not serious about attending court. The courts should know better. The training could have been postponed. Even the courts do not uphold the constitution.

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Lawyer Gobind Singh Deo asked the court to direct the prosecution to close the case if they were unable to call Supt Gan to be cross-examined.

“Supt Gan is aware that the hearing has been fixed for four days but he deliberately chose to go away. He is a police officer and should know the procedure,” he contended.

Rozina said Supt Gan was not subpoened and set three days from Feb 10 for continuation of the trial.

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Taiwan seems a preferred place of refuge for our government people. Remember how the backbenchers were packed off to learn horticulture and the intricacies of how grass-hoppers hop.

HANTU however hinted that for certain class of refugees, Kolkata (ask Bala) has top billing.

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SO GAN TACK GUAN, IF YOU ARE NOT OFF-SHORE WEST OF HERE

YOU BLOODY WELL APPEAR IN COURT ON 10 FEBRUARY 2009 AND

NOT PUT TO SHAME THE GAN CLAN.

Umno must change before the people pass a "death sentence" on it, Home Minister and party supreme council member Syed Hamid Albar told Bernama.

He said change was timely as the party's image had been badly tarnished by cases involving members detained for alleged corruption by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

"Embracing change and cleaning up the party must be discussed by the party's top leaders with members.

"Everyone, including the president and supreme council members must take responsibility so that our party is not given the death sentence," he prophetically cautioned.

But I think there isn’t much time to revive the party when signs of rigor mortis are evident for all to see: 5 states lost, two by-elections lost, a murder case running awry and suspect, billions lost by Khazana and GLCs, dirty tricks, money politics, blatant greed by its members, police brutality resulting in over a thousand deaths in police lockup over the years

However, there is an infinitesimal chance, if his next statement can hold any sincerity:

He said changes to be effected should also include making the party more people-friendly.

EXACTLY! Like having your police personnel stop harassing the rakyat at peaceful assemblies; like no more deaths while in police custody; and most of all GET RID OF THE ISA.

If you can do that there is a chance of resuscitating UMNO and I will not allow the monkey to slap you again.

So what is this monkey-slapping saga? Read on…….

There was once a hat-seller, named Hassan Albar who passed by a forest on his way back from the market. The weather was very hot and so he decided to take a nap under one of the trees, so he left his whole basket of hats by the side.


A few hours later, he woke up by some sounds. The next thing he realized was that all his hats were gone. He heard some monkeys on the tree and so he looked up. To his surprise, the tree was full of monkeys and they had taken all his hats.


The hat-seller, Hassan Albar, sat down and thought of how he could get the hats down. He started scratching his head. The next moment, he realized that the monkeys were doing the same action.


Next, he took down his own hat and saw the monkeys did exactly the same. An idea came to him, he took his hat and threw it on the floor and the monkeys did that too.


So he finally managed to get all his hats back.

If you think you have read this before….., read on!!!


Fifty years later, his grandson, named Syed Hamid (aka Si Botak –ISA Minister), also became a hat-seller and had heard this monkey story from his grandfather, Hassan Albar.

One day, just like his grandfather, he passed by the same forest, it was very hot, and he took a nap under the same tree and left the hats on the floor. He woke up and realized that all his hats were gone. Syed Hamid looked up and realized that the monkeys had taken all the hats. He remembered his grandfather's words, started scratching his head and the monkeys followed.

He took down his hat and fanned himself and again the monkeys followed. Now, very convinced of his grandfather' s idea, Syed Hamid threw his hat on the floor but to his surprise, the monkeys held on to all the hats.

Then one monkey climbed down the tree, grabbed the hat on the floor, gave Syed Hamid a tight slap and said,

"You think only you have a grandfather!"