Explosive and Shoot out

Some of you might aware of the catastrophic incident happening in Gulf of Mexico involving BP deep water oil rig that was on fire and today they are still struggling to contain the spills. As Pujaan read the news on Yahoo news tonight, many dolphins already dead and the CEO's of the involved company were dragged to give explanation to the House.

By chance, Pujaan got to know that my company's product is also involved in the incident. An equipment called BOP (Blow Out Preventer) that function as the controller of oil coming out from the oil well is being used for that rig. Until today they cannot verify what had went wrong due to the oil is still coming out (estimated up to 4million gallons). In the incident 11 persons were dead during the explosion. One reason why I'm not prefer to work on off shore platform. Its like cooking in a kitchen with the cooking gas leaking. Once ignited it became booom!


The recent accidental shooting of a teenager by police had caught my attention. Media and community seems to be blaming the police for doing inhuman acts, but I got different opinion. Not to insult any party, this is my own thought just for sharing and concern; if we were the police man at that time, won't us will do the same?

Its early morning and police is doing their duty patrolling the area. Then suddenly this car suspiciously speeding and stopped when the driver saw you. You give order to halt but the car continues to move in dangerous way. Worrying of your own safety and balancing it with your duty, what will you do?

I'm bearing my mind to remind myself that police are human just like me. They have family to take care of and at the same time they are doing the most dangerous job: fighting crime! Criminals are cruel and they will never hesitate to kill a police if they need to and that's a fact.
I'm worried if the case give a negative impact such as police will not be allowed to carry guns anymore or they are not allowed to shoot until they are sure. In such situation how are you going to be sure?

I have an uncle working as police man and he's a single dad. Raising 2 children by his own giving me a bit of thought whenever there are issues regarding the police.

From our side what we can do? Remember the baju sendat and seluar petak story: look back at our siblings and relatives, do they acting like troublemakers? If yes we need to advice them and look at this incident as a lesson.

Adios.