Follow The Crowd or Follow Your Heart

Was surfing the Internet and came across an old story of a some said fishmonger, some said  restaurant owner --- who had cut off the two front legs of a baby cat who allegedly stole a fish. The incident took place in May 2005.

The victim was named Hero by its rescuer, Mohd Hairey Yahya, after the ordeal.  Hero died in Nov 2013 from leukemia.

In a separate issue, I also found this commentary by Shahrum Sayuthi which came out in the NST on 20 May 2014.

IT looked like just another typical Pas ceramah at a Malay village on Sunday night. There was the usual crowd of about 500 people, stalls selling food and knick-knacks as well as Pas leaders lambasting the Barisan Nasional government, particularly the Umno leadership.

The ceramah at Kampung Bahagia, Teluk Intan, was, however, special as it was actually the launch of Pakatan's election machinery for DAP's defence of the parliamentary constituency.

Noticeably absent in the speeches was any obvious mention of Pas' currently most talked about ambition, the implementation of hudud in Kelantan, which has been fiercely opposed by DAP.

Among the Pas leaders present were deputy president Mohamed Sabu, vice-president Datuk Husam Musa and Muslimah chief Siti Zailah Mohd Yusoff.

The DAP leaders started to arrive one after another halfway through the ceramah, led by party supremo Lim Kit Siang and his son, secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, who is also Penang chief minister.

The star attraction, DAP's candidate for the Teluk Intan by-election, Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud, was the last to arrive.

The normally modern-looking 27-year-old looked demure in a pink baju kurung and a headscarf.
Her presence immediately heightened the excitement of those present as she made her way through the crowd to the VIPs' tent.

Her reputed good looks was not lost on the crowd, especially among the men, as some made loud remarks on how pretty she was.

There was even a request for her phone number from a member of the audience as she introduced herself at the beginning of her speech.

It was just not the crowd that took a particular interest in Dyana Sofya's looks.

Husam, in his speech earlier, made a reference about how being a beauty is a bonus on top of her credibility as a candidate.

The DAP's choice of candidate and campaign strategy in the Teluk Intan by-election indicates the party's desire to extend its support base among the Malay electorate.

Fresh from winning overwhelming support from its traditional power base, the Chinese community, DAP appeared confident enough to place the fresh-faced Dyana Sofya as its candidate in the constituency where Malays make up about 38 per cent of the electorate.

It is a show of supreme confidence by the party that it will not lose the support of the local Chinese community, who make up the biggest chunk of Teluk Intan voters at 41 per cent, even with it fielding a young Malay female candidate.

Estimates indicated that DAP's former member of parliament there, Seah Leong Peng, who died on May 1, had won about 90 per cent of the Chinese votes there in the 13th General Election last year.

With the shadow of Pas' plan to table the private members' bill in Parliament to effect the implementation of hudud in Kelantan, DAP had come out with a clever gambit to show that the opposition pact could still win the Malay support even without Pas pulling out its conservative Islamic card.

Read more: DAP tries to show it can do it without Pas - Columnist - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnist/dap-tries-to-show-it-can-do-it-without-pas-1.601265#ixzz32WPcjR2d