LDP crisis

The former president of LDP,Datuk Chong Kah Kiat was urged by members from Kudat to come out as mediator to resolve the power struggle within the party.

But Datuk is adopting a wait and see attitude. If he sides with the rebellion, he would be accused of being "矛盾“ because the incumbent is using the party constitution to back his current action of sacking 20+ supreme council members. The party constitution has vested upon the president the power to sack any party member he sees fit, overriding even the supreme council with the backing of the presidential council.This ultimate power for the president came about through the very hand of Datuk Chong when he won a similar power struggle in the party against Kong Hon Min in the 1990s.He amended the party constitution to protect his position from future challenges. If he spoke against Datuk VK Liew, he will be slapping his own face.

On the other hand, if he sides with the incumbent, he will be going against the grass root members. Moreover, it is obvious that the rebellion has the blessing of outside forces.

Therefore Datuk Chong remains impartial.

LDP is experiencing an earthquake

The tremour did not happen in that link between 1U and IOI in KL namely Lebuhraya-Damansara-Puchung (LDP).
It happened in that tiny party in Kudat namely Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
The party chairman is facing the challenge for the top post in the party from the deputy chairman in partnership with the secretary-general, with the huha-huha from 20+ members of the party's supreme council.
The outcome of the power struggle depends very very much on the stance taken by the Chief Minister, it depends on where his nose is pointing.When he sneezes, whoever got blown away to the foothills of Mt. Kinabalu will of course lose and will disappear from the Sabah political scene for good.
Let's wait a few days or weeks to see the result.Be sure to check back, I will blog about it, should be interesting!

Hiew King Cheu resigned as Sabah DAP Advisor

After toiling hard for more than 10 years to revive DAP Sabah, Dr Hiew King Cheu had resigned from the position of Advisor to DAP Sabah. He built DAP Sabah from the ground up, from zero Assemblyman and Member of Parliament to 4 now. But someone else reaped the fruit!
According to Dr Hiew,his reason for quitting the post was due to 4 of his colleagues, who are also State Assemblymen, complained to the disciplinary board and urged actions to be taken against him. They wanted him to support Tamparuli assemblyman Datuk Wilfred Bumburing for the post of state opposition leader in June, but he supported PKR’s Datuk Lajim Ukin instead.

Dr Hiew has been the Sabah DAP chairman for the past 10 years,but was ousted by Jimmy Wong with the help of a group of young leaders in the 2012 party election. Ironically, Jimmy Wong has been a long time lone ranger, performing street protests by himself all these years. It was Dr Hiew who brought him into the fold of DAP, only to be pulled down by him later! Typical examples of "引狼入室" and "Bagai kacang lupakan kulit".Apparently Sabah DAP is going through a process of purging seasoned leaders.

Prior to ganging up on Dr Hiew, the young Turks in the party had edged former party vice chairman,Edward Ewol Mujie, out of the party on the eve of the 2013 general election. Obviously it was a big mistake for Dr Hiew to stand on the sideline to let Edward fight on his own. Now it is his turn. He should have joined force with Edward to fight the young Turks. Well, it is too late now.

It hurts one's heart to look at Dr Hiew's grey and receding hair line and his white beard. Time and the job has certainly taken its toll on this man. But sooner or later he has to leave the party he nurtured back to life from near defunct and not enjoy the fruits. Compare the above picture of him when he was younger.If ever he leaves, look up to Lee Lam Thye for directions. Lee was another unhappy leader who left DAP many years back. He did not join BN, but he is able to play a useful role in the social arena.Way to go Dr Hiew, Sabah version of Lee Lam Thye!

Are the services provided by the Sabah State Railway necessary?

On 13 July 2013 at 8:00am a train after leaving Tanjung Aru, heading towards Papar and Beaufort had one of its wheel dislodged from the railway track near Kampung Kawang.Fortunately the 80 passengers on board were not hurt.
According to the Sabah State Railway Department Operation Officer,Awang Zainudin Awang Matusin,"It is not due to lack of maintenance but due to a problematic stretch that cause the wheel to be dislodged. It is like that." Whatever he meant?
Not long ago another mishap involving the railway system when a car driven by a Hong Kong tourist was slammed by a train, the driver was killed.
This raised a question,whether it would be better for the Sabahans life safety to discontinue the Sabah railway system?
The train only carry passengers between Tg Aru and Beaufort twice a day.The loads are minimal, for instant there were only 80 passengers when the incident happened. Two buses would be enough to carry these numbers of passengers already.Beaufort can be reached by buses and taxi conveniently on tarred roads nowadays,no need to travel by train.
Compared with West Malaysia, where the loads are very heavy, comprising heavy goods and huge numbers of passengers, they have fewer mishaps.They have train services day and night with short intervals but seldom have accidents. Sabah Railway Department really have to learn from them, or simply scrap the service, for the sake of ordinary people's safety.

Leader of Sulu terrorist group,Azizmuddie Kiram,fled Lahad Datu

The Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar announced that Azizmuddie Kiram, the leader of the 200 Sulu Terrorists who intruded into Lahad Datu on 12 February 2013,has fled Sabah abandoning his followers to fend for themselves.Azizmuddie is also the younger brother of the Manila based so-called Sulu Sultan.Note that there are currently 11 persons claiming to be the lawful Sulu Sultan. Very confusing. At the beginning,the Malaysian government were trying to persuade the armed group to leave peacefully,thinking that since both sides are Muslims it is better to settle it this way. However,things turned out not to be this way, you consider them as "brothers" but they consider you as "enemies".
On 1 March,a gun-battle broke out between the two sides,2 Malaysian policemen and 12 Sulu terrorists were killed. The very next day a Malaysian police patrol was ambushed by a band of Sulu terrorists at a coastal village near Semporna also on the east coast of Sabah.This time 6 police men and 6 Sulu terrorists were killed. Further more,19 Malaysian police personnel were pinned down by the Sulu terrorists and had to be rescued by reinforcement from the armed forces. Under public pressure,the government has no choice but to take drastic actions, by launching air strikes followed by sending in armored vehicles with soldiers to break the armed group on 5 March.This was followed up with the police clean up operations, searching for the terrorists door-to-door. Up till today (15 March),61 Sulu terrorists were killed,97 persons were arrested under SOSMA,another 233 persons were arrested for entering the "Red Areas" illegally.Whereas 10 police and armed forces personnel were killed.Operations are continued to clean up any remains of the terrorists.
The reason given by the armed group is to claim Sabah as their land,as Sabah was once gifted to the Sulu Sultanate by the Brunei Sultanate until it was leased to the British between 19 April 1851 and 26 June 1946,and they ignored the fact that it was later passed over to the newly formed Malaysia on 1963.
What puzzled me is that why didn't they claim the Sulu Islands which bear the same name as the Sultanate? If they take over Sabah,what will happen to the Sabahans not of Sulu origin? Are they going to be driven out of Sabah, or they will have to call themselves Sulus also?
It is estimated that there are around 800,000 Sulus living in Sabah, some illegally while some have obtained Malaysian citizenship.This fact has worried many Sabahans and I had blogged about it few years back.Sabah,or the whole nation for that matter, is like a person being infected by HIV virus.The virus are the Sulus in our mist, that is why it was so difficult to clean up the remains of the terrorists,why our forces being ambushed so easily and why Azizmuddie Karim can slip through the cordon put up by our armed forces.The simple reason is because they are aided by the HIV virus hiding in our nation's system!
There are also NGOs from overseas and within Malaysia which demand to be allowed into the battle zones to care for the terrorists on humanitarian grounds.What numb skulls filled with straw! What we are dealing with here are not human, they are animals.Our men were killed by them in non human ways. Moreover, it is common sense that no people are supposed to enter these zones for security purposes, why must they insist on going inside? They want to upset the armed forces' plans? Or they intend to allow themselves to be taken hostages on purpose? Now that the leader has escaped, will they still vow to fight to the last bullet?

Related posts:

• FCAS wants illegals to stay.
• Major crack down on illegal immigrants soon
• Federal cabinet committee to handle illegal immigrants
• Formation of patriotic forum on Identity Cards
• Abnormal increase of population rate

Sabah BN has won the 13th General Election.

The main opposition parties in Sabah namely,PKR,PAS,DAP and SAPP failed to meet in a recent forum to discuss the possibility of coming to an agreement in order to face the BN one-on-one in the coming 13th General Election.
Barring any unexpected event, the Sabah BN has already won the 13th General Election even before it is started.
The only chance for the Opposition to win the election is to avoid to engage in the multi-corners tussle. Otherwise the opposition's votes will be split(divided,shared,separated,unconsolidated,diluted), and the BN will stand to gain form it huge. It is simple maths and does not need a rocket scientist to understand it.
Yet the leaders of the Opposition parties refuse to see this obvious fact. Every one of them solely relies on the unreliable ill-supported information from their followers and feels that he has all the supports of the Sabahans and does not need the co-operation of anyone.Their ego are boosted so high by their followers harping on certain victory and intend to adopt the "winner takes all" mentality.
I feel sorry for these people, I also feel sorry for the Sabahans who can't hope to see a strong Opposition front in the near future.

Happy Harvest Festival

To all KDM friends, Happy Harvest Festival!

A RM430 Million bridge linking Semporna and Pulau BumBum

Former Chief Minister of Sabah, Tan Sri Harris Salleh criticized the Federal Government for planning to build a bridge linking Semporna and Pulau Bum Bum.The estimated costs will amount to RM340 millions.He said it would be a waste of money .I tend to agree with him on this.

This is the most puzzling decision in recent years.What is there on the Pulau Bum Bum? Except for some Sea Bajau fishermen and some accommodations for scuba divers to spend the night before being ferried to Sipadan Island, there is no other economy activities there.

Whereas in the case of Johor Causeway and the Penang Bridge their existence are justified by the active economy activities on both sides and hence the resultant heavy traffic using the bridge/causeway.But there are only the small population about 2000 on the island, do they need the bridge? If the traffic is so heavy the island may not be big enough to hold all the light and heavy vehicles!

The reason given by the government is to promote tourism.How many tourists will be attracted by this bridge every year? How many years will it take to recoup back the investment, not to mention the maintenance costs of the bridge.
Moreover, maybe the tourists prefer a boat ride instead of a bus ride, because it will add excitement to their journey. Think about it.

Sabah Opposition is not united

Looking at things as it is now, BN is sure to have a land slide win again in the coming general election.

It is very clear that DAP and SAPP are not going to cooperate with each other in order to avoid votes splitting. Both parties are over confident of themselves, both believe that they only have the sole support of the Sabahans.

One will say," we are local party, you West Malaysia party will be rejected by Sabahans lah!"

While the other will say," we are the largest opposition party in the country, you mosquito party move over lah!"

 

 

And the BN will collect the votes laughing all the way to the Parliament and the State Assembly!

Poor childish and selfish politicians,stop fighting among yourselves!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

Vital information related to Air Crash in Sabah on 6 June 1976 buried for 43 years

Senior UMNO member and former Malaysia Finance Minister,Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah,revealed to blogger Ronald Charles Klassen during a lunch interview how he escaped death because he and two other persons were led off the ill-fated plane minutes before take off.

Klassen was testifying as the 4th witness for the defendant in a RM50 million libel suit brought by a former Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Haris Salleh, against another former Sabah chief Minister, Datuk Yong Teck Lee for his remarks relating to a tregic air crash in 1976 in whcin another Sabah Chif Minister, Tun Fuad Stephens, was killed along with other key members of the state cabinet.

The accident almost wiped out the entire state cabinet which was newly elected only days ago, wresting power from the hand of the authoritarian Tun Mustapha. The whole of Sabah was devastated, and everyone refused to believe it was an accident, until today.But where is the proof? The question lingers on...

With the revelation of this piece of information in the court of law,after a long lapse of 34 years, the heart strings of Sabahans are brutally plucked creating tremendous agony all over again!

RM250 for lighting up a stick of cigarette

Many passengers who are smokers learned a costly lesson when they arrived at the Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA) and the Low Cost Terminal (T2) yesterday. After suppressing the urge to smoke when up on the plane they could not wait to light a cigarette just outside the main doors of air-conditioned lobby . Little did they know that 35 enforcement officers from Health Department were waiting for them.Moreover, the whole Airport building,including the Taxi pickup area is classified as NON-SMOKING zone!

The officers are divided into 6 groups, each armed with a camera. whenever they saw a person smoking in the pickup area, some bold ones even did it inside the lobby, they will quickly snap a photo of him doing the act and then confront him.The offender could not deny even if he quickly discarded the lighted cigarette, because the officers had the photo as proof.He would be handed a summon of RM250, and has to pay up within 2 weeks. If he was on a connection flight, he could settle the summon in regional offices in Tawau, Sandakan, Lahad Dato within 2 weeks. Anyone failing to pay the compound within the stipulated period will face a RM10K fine, a jail term or both.

If you really need to kill the urge to smoke, walk outside the covered area of the building, go under the palm trees and beyond the flower plants.Then you will be safely out side the non-smoking zone.
Happy travelling!

Merry X'mas !

Wishing all my Christian friends a Merry Christmas!

Direct Ferry Service Between Brunei - Sabah On The Table

Sabah Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment, Datuk Masidi Manjun ,told reporters that a suggestion to link Maura in Brunei to Menumbok in Sabah by ferry service was well received by the Government of Brunei. The proposed ferry service will shorten the travelling time between the two places from the usual 7 hours by land to 2 hours by sea.

The Minister said the suggestion was a result of discussions with the Government of Brunei earlier this year. Discussions included among other things the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the Sabah Tourism Board and the Royal Brunei Airlines to jointly promote Brunei and Sabah a tourism destination.

He further disclosed that the management of the proposed ferry service will be handled by private sector from Brunei and Sabah. How soon will this proposal become a reality depends on the ability and speed of the selected operators.
Well...let's keep our fingers crossed!

Dilemma of Datuk Raymond Tan Shu Kiah

The hottest topic running currently in Sabah is the controversy of whether The Deputy Chief Minister of Sabah Datuk Raymond Tan Shu Kiah should remains in the Sabah State cabinet, or in Barisan Nasional (BN) for that matter.
Personally it is also a painful dilemma for Datuk Raymond Tan himself.I feel Datuk Raymonf Tan should rid himself of this agony by stepping down temporarily and brush up his act by forming a new party quickly or else join a component party of BN immediately.
At the mean while, the Chief Minister should leave the post vacant and wait for Datuk Raymond Tan to finish executing his acts - if he is indispensable. Otherwise, if it goes on like this, it proves nothing except adding to the oddity of the whole thing. "There is no such thing as an independent BN member!" Who said it before? Correct me if I'm wrong, it was a Chief Minister.

Unwilling stuntman at Jalan Lintas Ring Road

I became a stuntman driving my car flying over the divider at Jalan Lintas ring road like James Bond (Agent 007)always does in the movie recently. I was travelling from Damai towards Lintas Square at around 8:00pm and was keeping to the extreme right hand lane because I intended to turn right into Lintas Square at the traffic light. It is the habit of KK road designers to cut a special lane for drivers who want to turn right or make a u-turn so that these cars would not obstruct the main flow of traffic.I entered this special lane early to avoid meeting some weirdo drivers who refuse to let others to cross lanes and you may miss the junction if you are unlucky enough to meet such drivers. As I was happily driving along this special lane and keeping my eyes on the traffic lights at the far end wishing that it will turn green while I reach there. Suddenly there was a loud bang and felt a big thud under my car, and I found myself air-borne! I held my steering wheel tight in order not to land on the opposite lane and luckily landed on the grass of the divider. I guess I flew almost 10 meters and was lucky enough not to ram into any on coming cars! Thank God there was no lamp post, no trees on the divider,else I wont be sitting here writing this story already. Then I realized I entered this special lane too early because it leads to an u-turn first and the smart ass who designed this part of the road built a curb after the u-turn so that cars in this lane can only u-turn and cannot go straight. If you want to turn right you have to enter the special lane after the u-turn.Why he has to build the curb and not allow cars to go straight pass the u-turn, only God knows. If you realized you are in the wrong lane and do not want to make a u-turn,you have to avoid hitting the curb by swerving to the left and risk being hit by cars coming from behind.But at night You will not be able to see the curb because the lighting was poor and the curb was not painted with reflective material. In the above news clip you can see the brake marks on the roads, I am certain many drivers had performed (unexpectedly) the same stunt as I did. The person in the picture was a DAP leader,Edward. Maybe he too suffered the same fate...LOL

Jalan Bundusan Upgrade

Hmm....it's going to be April, will the developer keep his promise to complete the project by that time? Come on everyone lay your bet! It takes me almost one hour every morning to send my kid to work just to travel the portion of road from in front JPJ to the round about(new)in front of SGCC. I really take my hat off to the KK guys,nobody says any thing going through this ordeal day in day out. The road just past JPJ merges 2 lanes into one, then the queue-jumpers cut in from the side, practically it is 3 lanes into 1,thus forming a great Nobel prize-winning bottle neck. That is not all, the morning exodus of the Beverly Hills Apartment residents are streaming out from 3 junctions, forming another 3 dead locks.The beauty is,there is no traffic police around to control the flow of traffic. And there is a nice beautiful police pondok just next to the jammed road. Maybe it is not yet time for the policemen to clock in, or maybe the people inside think,"It's none of my business,my job is to take statements and issue police reports. My job does not include conducting traffic." But at least call your colleagues in the traffic division to come, not just "close one eye" mah.

Happy Chinese New Year

Wishing all my Chinese friends Happy Chinese New Year!

The FCAS wants the illegals to stay

The president of the Federation of Chinese Associations Sabah (FCAS),Datuk Sari Nuar (what a name for a Chinese!) led a troop of his committee members to meet the Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman, and handed in the 16 resolutions adopted at the FCAS Annual General Meeting 2008 last week.
Two resolutions amongst the 16 were highlighted in headlines of all local news papers,the 2 resolutions are namely:

• To legalise the illegal immigrants in Sabah,and further more award them permanent resident status if they do not have any criminal records after staying 15 years in Sabah
• To reconsider the state cabinet's decision to shelf the coal-fired power plant project but to choose Sandakan as the new site for the power plant.

The reactions from the Sabah public is phenomenal,objections came from all sides and angles,from layman in the street, NGOs, to prominent politicians, all voicing their angers and disgusts over this act by Datuk Sari Nuar and gang.
They raised several questions:

• Why does the FCAS place higher priority on the illegal immigrants' welfare over the welfare of many Chinese born in Sabah but still can not get permanent stay after 30 to 50 years? When was the last time the FCAS brings the plights of this category of Chinese to the attention of the state government?
• How to prove an illegal immigrant has lived in Sabah for over 15 years? How can the government keep records on an illegal immigrant but not taking any action and let him move about freely for 15 years? What kind of government is that?Entering our country illegally is an criminal act itself,how on earth can you say that he has no criminal records?
• Without criminal records does not mean that an illegal immigrant did not commit any crime before, he may be smart enough to escape the law enforcement officers.Only the dumb ones were caught,but the smart and dangerous ones escaped.Since they do not have valid travel documents,they can change their identities any time (much easier than you changing your user names on the Internet)hence it is extremely difficult if not impossible to trace them.
• Business owners are worried about their profit margins if they can no longer make use of the cheap labour provided by the illegal immigrants,but aren't they worried even a little bit about the safety of their families and younger generations?
• Sabah cabinet shelved the coal-fired power plant project based on the advice of experts.Now the FCAS invited the so-called experts from local universities to hold a dialogue with public to explain it is environment friendly to use the coal-fried power plant, does it mean that these experts are better informed that those engaged by the cabinet?
• In the United Kingdom,even with 50 years of experience of using coal-fired power plants,they are also not going to build more new plants based on this technology, read report....Why is the eagerness of the FCAS to rush into this not yet proven safe technology? The UK needs more energy than us,don't they?
• If the plant will cause health hazards to the Lahad Datu residents,won't it cause the same level of harm to the Sandakan residents? Or is it because the lives of the Sandakan residents are less valuable than that of the Lahad Datu residents?
• Again they wanted to know what personal gains from this project will the members of the FCAS council receive?
• Several branches/affiliates of the FCAS claimed there were only 12 resolutions adopted during the said AGM,not 16 as claimed by Datuk Sari and friends.The illegal immigrants and the coal-fired power plants issues were definitely not among them.

Caught off guard by the strong reactions from the Chinese community,Datuk Sari quickly changed his story. He said the 4 additional resolutions were result of the decision of the FCAS central committee and the Sabah United Chinese Chamber of Commerce (SUCCC) to include them.
Also the actual intention of the resolutions was to urge the state government to consider legalising the immigrants who manage to find jobs here, and not to consider granting them permanent residence as reported in the media.If he is not treating us Sabahans as idiots and telling the truth,it really makes one wonders of what academic standard is the person who wrote the resolutions which were so misleading that required someone else to interpret it correctly.Why can't the FCAS find someone competent enough to handle such important job?
Meanwhile some of the FCAS committee members who happened to be committee members of SUCCC also started a scruple with rivalling committee members in the same organisation over the 6-year old issue of the legal status of SUCCC committee in an effort to divert the public attention.
Many amongst the Chinese community have long questioned whether to let the FCAS to represent them is appropriate.In reality they only represent a handful of traders,not the ordinary Chinese who has nothing to do with trading.This handful of people should confine their activities in the SUCCC and not have double roles in the FCAS also.By right the leaders of FCAS should be professionals elected from the various dialect clans and surname clans and not those who only care about profit margins.
But the biggest pity is why after all these years, the local Chinese community can not find a leader born locally,if not in Sabah,at least within Malaysia to lead them. I felt very uneasy each time I read his non-Chinese name in the non-Chinese news papers.I wonder whether these papers did it on purpose.

Major crackdown on illegal immigrants soon

Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia,Tan Sri Najib Tun Razak announced that the government will take action to flush out the illegal immigrants living in Sabah.It was flashed across the front pages of all local news papers last month. But the response from the public was cold,they think this is just another round of empty promise from the government on this issue,no difference from many other similar announcements made before over the years. But this time it is from the Deputy Prime Minister himself, not any low ranking minister like before.No one in Sabah believes he is sincere in his intention,most people think it is just a move to shift public attention from other issues which are sticking to him right now. Even senior government officers are negative in their opinions.The Assistant Director of the Federal Special Task Force (whose sole duty is to solve the illegal immigrants problems in Sabah) said that the success of this move is very much dependent on the readiness of the verious systems and authorities to tackle the problems.He went on to list out the 5 major reasons why the efforts to solve the illegals problems failed in the past. He claimed that the FSTF is ready to accommodate more illegals with the setting up of 2 additional temporary detention camps.Reading between the lines,one can feel that he is implying the other authorities are not ready yet. At the same time the Chief Police Officer of Sabah is afraid that the police force is short of man power.However,he said the police department will try its best to make this exercise a success.Again,one has to read between the lines to catch his real meaning. If there is one issue that has the same opinion from all the Sabahans,it is the illegal immigrants issue.It has been with us for more than 30 years now.And the government still does not seem to have a clue as how to solve it. To help solve this problem,we Sabahans need to cooperate with the government by taking the following steps: (1) Stop renting you house or land to illegal immigrants.Of course,in so doing you will lose some incomes.But think about the safety of your loved ones and family,isn't it more important than money? (2) Hire locals as far as possible.Do not ever hire any imported worker who does not have any proper travel document and work permit. (3)Town board workers who are entrusted with the task to dismantle the illegal houses should do the job yourselves and destroy the building materials. Do not be lazy and let the illegals to dismantle the houses and save the materials to rebuild their houses soon after you have left. (4)Policemen should not accept bribes from illegals when they are caught.If you let them go freely, who knows they may bounce into your children later and hurt them.I mean how do the illegals know they are your children unless you let them wear police uniforms,too. (5)Hospital staff should not accept bribes for issuing false Sabahan birth certificates to new born babies of illegal immigrants.Otherwise these babies will grow up to be Sabahans legally and fight for job opportunities with your children one day. (6)Staff of National Registration Department should not accpet bribes for issuing false Sabahan ICs to illegal immigrants. This is equivalent to committing an act of treason,and should be sent to the firing squad.Many of those who obtained their ICs this way may have joined the armed forces and the police.They maybe even entrusted with the duty to round up,to deport the illegal immigrants (their brothers) to their home countries.Won't it be the biggest joke? (7)Last but not least,do not be a SUPER hypocrite by complaining about the illegal immigrants on one hand, and providing them with employement and shelters on the other. I really miss those days when I did not have to lock my house and my car. I still remember I brought my wife (then still girl friend)to visit a friend in Kuala Lumpur back in the 70's.We waited for a good 10 minutes outside my friend's house for him to unlock through the series of locks while my wife whispered to me,"why your friend so weird one,locking himself up with so many locks?" Now I will tease my wife once in a while,"why you so weird one,locking yourself up with so many locks?"