All hail the hero !

A heart warming story of an individual who selflessly saves people he hardly knew....so goes the testimony of survivors ( read here and here) of this young wire man's brave deeds in the recent "Seagull Express II ferry fire, off the resort island of Tioman during the Hari Raya festivities.

S. Krishnamoorthy, 19, was said to have single-handedly saved 18 people. Good to know his "shinning example" has restored a renewed surge of faith in the young people of today, where mat-rempits rule !

But what bothers me most now is the fact that nothing has changed...as far as safety of passengers using these sloppily managed ferries to travel to the resorts and all the cheap talk of the authorities to come down hard following the fire ! I read in the papers in days following the tragedy, ferry operators (whether legal or otherwise !) STILL take full loads of holiday-makers, packed like cattle, without any life-jackets and throwing caution to the winds, at all island resorts all over Malaysia !! Is "safety-first and scrutiny of operating licenses" only confined to a particular port of accident ??

Such is the state of urgency in this here, land of ours, Malaysia..........everyone, most especially the politicians, jump like monkeys on a hot tin roof and come out with their best rehearsed-lines in giving their 2 cents worth of "idle" philosophy and then.......whooooooosh..... we are quickly coerced to focus our attention from this incident to other situations......and we, the "suffering and stupid citizens" eagerly look forward for more sensational drama played out by government servants in authorities and so-called "esteemed" members of the august house ! It is so easy to screw a tax-paying Malaysian !

But for now let us salute this local hero for his unselfish gesture of putting his life, in the face of danger, to save another !

Cheers S. Krishnamoorthy, I'll drink to your generous act of courage !