Two deaths and a crossroad

The Malaysian papers are still continuing their fixation with Kugan's death during custody of the police. It still commands a lot of details and everyday there is a mention of the circumstances surrounding the case.

If you were to open the Sunday Star on page 3, you will notice a small column on the bottom right to an unidentified Vietnamese national whose death could not even be ascertained. Funny how both deaths are so strangely covered.

The Vietnamese will be remembered for unknown reasons or someone would not even know of her death while Kugan's death has become the face of a campaign for truth. Surprising how life can play out. Deepest condolences to both families and in these trying times, the irony remains that the two lives could not be more different in weight.

Both are significant to their families but one will continue to be talked about for days to come and used as an agenda for media fodders and coffee shop talk while the other will only amount to the grieving of family members possibly in Vietnam waiting for the income sorely needed from a daughter? a wife? or simply just a human. The other was a suspected criminal but whose death has been the object of justice. Some would argue that it is simply a case of being transparent to the public about justice but in fact these stories happen all the time with reported cases never blown up to this proportion for which I salute Kugan'a mother for her pursue of justice. Wonder if the Vietnamese family will ever pursue justice of their own?

Crossroads indeed for the two families and those in the know. There is continuous grieving but you really have to think on a separate platform if both lives are actually worth the same and when will be stop publicising death? Or maybe I'm jsut thinking too much.

Life is indeed fleet and short, to say make the best of it seems trivial but so true. The news on the pilot blogging competition on the star was dismal (just a paragraph when international media has hyped it up) and when the whole world raved, our local front remained quiet. Just goes to show the real interest of the media or is it the public?

It is hard and makes me wonder how I will be remembered after I'm gone. Not sure how that one goes but what a post on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Going out to play, yay!