Anti Social Behaviour Britain 2

Picture this; I was on the bus on my way home after teaching, the bus was full, when I step inside, I saw 7 or 8 pupils age range 12 to 15, boys and girls were sitting at the back of the bus proudly smoking, chatting loudly, laughing and giggling, I immediately recognized them as the pupils from my school from the uniform they are wearing, having been just sent two pupils to detention centre unit from my last lesson, I feel like I have the responsibility to remind these kids about not to smoking in the public place, beside I don’t like to sit there and inhale the smokes, I then politely told them to read the “No smoking” sign and remind them that they could get fine, but the response was awful I did not anticipated.

“so what…?” one of them angrily shouted
“we are not in the classroom” said another, he recognized me
“oh ya….., so what you gonna do!” another shouting
“you Chinese b****, back to your country” (heeeey, do I look like a Chinese?)

I was speechless, but before I could get the chanced to grasp the long breath suddenly….

Something landed on my shoulder,…plak…. it was a banana skin, then….some papers…then pens and then…..
“ouuchhh” one of the pens landed onto a big man’s head who happens sitting in front of me, the target was me, but instead landed on this man’s head.

I thought…..ehhm, you kids gonna have a real big time with this big man, but ….oh no… he did not do anything, I was surprised he was only swearing, his voice was not even laud enough to be heard by this “gang”, I was disappointed that he did not do something about it, the kids were laughing.
I was attacked,…I was harassed…., I was humiliated……, I can’t just keep sitting here waiting to get worse I have to do something, so I went to the driver and said;
“look, there is harassment going on in this bus, are you going to do something about this?” the response from the driver was even shocking;
“what you want me to do?, what you want me to do?, angrily with laud voice
“well at least send some signals to your HQ, you have the cctv here that link to your office, or hit your emergency button to the police, or take this bus to the nearest police station”
“I’ am driving, I’ am driving, I can not do anything” he raised his tune up even lauder, I really think he did not have an adequate training for his job, how could he let these kids get away with their dreadful behavior in his bus?

The bus stop and these horrid kids get off the bus, still yelling at me with angry face, one of these kids managed to kick my brief case…….thank goodness……….., gosh , are they on drug or something? do they have parents? What sort of parents do they have?

I was even surprised by the people in the bus they were just sitting there watching in despair, apparently they fear that this gang will do something if they interfere, just like the driver. One of the passengers told me that I should have not tell them (these horrid kids) how to behave, that I could get beaten that there are possibilities that they could have carry something………… blab bla bla.

What….? Is this how they response to the anti social behavior? You see, people are living in fear; you live in this society that this kind of crime becomes a commonplace, and alongside law-biding citizens there is a terrifying world of teen gangs with no sense of community and decency, living like soulless characters in a violent video game.

Several month after that incident (I refused to teach there anymore), I read on the newspaper that, that school have been a subject to investigation by the police, apparently there was a video on youtube showing an Asian teacher have been harassed by a group of pupils in the classroom and this dreadful event was filming by the pupils using mobile phone and uploaded onto youtube.

What is the root cause of these problems? Is it the bad policies? (hey…!, who am I to tell this?) just look at how the government response to this kind of horrid behavior? ABCs contract……………..what a laughable policy…….

There is no longer any discipline at home or in the school, parents are powerless to control their children for the sake of children protection act, human right and teachers seems have no right to discipline children because of the strict regulations, no wonder juveniles are out of control.

This country has never been invaded, but now the army of the enemy is within, this a very sad situation, this country supposed to be a great country but has lost its perspective and no wonder people have lost their faith.
I just hate to think what this country would become in 20 years time when this present generation run the country, imagine……….?

Anti social behaviour Britain 1

With the horrific news that 11 year-old child returning from football training has been shot dead in Liverpool, the shooting in Nothing Hill carnival, kids shooting kids, it seems the serious crime in Britain is truly out of control, it happens almost everyday and we have become used to this kind of unwelcome news.

Gun crime, gangland killings are so commonplace, and how the government responds to this rising tide of violent crime?

The labour government just has revealed its plan to beat crime in Britain, to make more vandals, underage drinkers and joyrides promise to behave in future, the yobs causing trouble will be offered the chance to sign Anti social Behavior Contracts or ABCs as an alternative to prosecution said the home secretary, Jacqui Smith (Daily express,24 August 2007).
This ABCs are written pledge between the offender and the authorities that he or she will behave responsibly for a set period of time, if they agree the yobs will not face prosecution, a fine or even an asbo (Anti social behaviour).

Is this the weapon to fight against the anti-social behavior?
What the hell is this home secretary on about? Does she honestly think these ABC is a right weapon to combat this dreadful behavior or will change the teenager gangs’ attitude to an angel?

I was one of the victims of this antisocial behavior, probably not in the high level but its hurt and the memory is still fresh in my mind.

Continue...............

National anthem Vs Less nationalism

I almost forgot!....today is the Indonesia Independent’s day, I used to have tears whenever I heard this national anthem in my first year here in UK, but now listening to the lyrics and analyzed through my head it make me laugh, don't get me wrong..., I still love Indonesia, I have lots of relatives and friends over there, it’s just the situation after the 62 years of Independent and the system bothered me, and perhaps the system in Indonesia have failed many Indonesians many times big times, or perhaps I’m not an Indonesian citizen anymore...... I don't know but I still have good memories of the way of Indonesia celebrate the Independent day.

62 years since Indonesia liberated from the Dutch colonial, this country may have been liberated from the colonization, unfortunately, to many Indonesian the 62 years has been a long suffer socially, economically, mentally, in many cases also physically by the “new colonization”.

Merdeka…… or freedom was a magic word, but sadly the corruptions, nepotism, collusions, greedy conglomerates, and discriminations towards Christians and poor people are still very visible.

Freedom….? Ehmmmh, freedom from what?

My moment of happiness

Some moments mean so much to us that we wish we could preserve them unchanged so that the happiness they bring never fades. I just returned from Wales, I had a fantastic time with my relative and her little boy, my friend and her two children and of course my beautiful daughter.

We driving everyday all day through the Welsh mountains and Lakes just to enjoy the beauty of the nature, we stop in many beautiful places for lunch or just to enjoy the view, and we always had lunch/picnic by the Lake.

There was a particular lake with a breathtaking view that I really love, the lake surrounded by mountains, the rays of the sun dipping below the trees with a beautiful stream running through, and what’s more, we were lucky, there was only very few tourists there, very peaceful, so we had the beautiful spot for ourselves, we played the beautiful music from the car while having our picnic there, we jumping across the small stream, singing with the birds, dance with the nature, and rejoice in the indescribable beauty of this nature that GOD has given us.

As I was laying down on the soft grass I was like “this is it!”,….my moment of happiness, surrounded with the beautiful people who I care about and care about me in this indescribable beautiful place, I think I’m close to heaven, if I could put time on hold I couldn’t choose a better moment than this.