Be good. Do good and be nice to one another.

Selamat Pagi Malaysia.

How many of you read that article about Pastor Koh that I shared on my blog, this morning?

As you saw the name, Pastor Koh, did it bring back any memory from a distant past - from 2017 when the Pastor was abducted by persons unknown? Was there a flicker of interest within your consciousness...was there anything within you that wanted to know more? Has his disappearance been explained, or solved, or even, have those that were responsible for his disappearance, been apprehended? Who were they? Paramilitary, PDRM, or UTK operatives?

Did you think about all these things...or did you, as most Malaysian will do.....simply glance at the headlines...register maybe a flicker of interest ...and then see that it was just another "Lest we forget" piece about the disappearance of Pastor Koh...and you then moved on to the next story?

Did it occur to you that there is Susanna Liew, his wife, family, friends and acquaintances who have been grieving for Pastor Koh these past five years since his abduction? Did you not think that surely the government of the day - and there have been many in the past ten years - that the government of the day would have taken steps to get to the bottom of the mysterious disappearance of the Pastor?

Did you felt concerned enough, maybe even outraged at the abduction of the Pastor in broad daylight, to resolve that you must try to do something...anything...about it so that another person, another pastor, another Malaysian, will never have to fear being abducted in broad daylight by the powers that be in Malaysia for whatever reasons?

Or will you, in a few minutes, already be on your way to work and all thoughts of Pastor Koh will be cast aside as your day starts, and you begin the task of earning a living in a Malaysia that you call home - the same Malaysia that has not done anything about a Pastor who disappeared in broad daylight five years ago?

And Pastor Koh is not the only one that has disappeared.

There have been other injustices. There has been other disappearances. There have been unexplained murders and unexplained "suicides" - Teoh Beng Hock. There have been beatings by PDRM. There has been injustice perpetrated by the draconian ISA and SOSMA acts that have caused onerous physical and mental torture upon Malaysians.

There have been imprisonment without trials. Your civil liberties arbitrarily curtailed. Malaysians separated from family and loved ones....and all you do this morning is just glance at the story about the disappearance of Pastor Koh, register a flicker of recognition as to what has happened to him....pause maybe for a few seconds....distracted by a tale that happened five years ago...and maybe at most...shake your head in sympathy and then, without so much as thought that maybe you should be part of the solution....you go on with your life this Monday morning.

And if I may interject and raise you from your daily routine...please, spare a thought for those Malaysian who are doing it tough....and there are many.

The poor who have not eaten anything from yesterday. The needy that slept in the streets with their children. The frail, the weak, and the sick who need care. The aged who need love and a home to live what is left of their lives. And all the other Malaysians who woke up this morning unsure and uncertain if the day will bring them their daily bread.

My own thought is of whether I can go back to KL while I can still walk unaided and take care of myself by myself, for after all, I am already 75. But what are these worries when you do not have food for your children on the table or a decent roof over your head. Everything is relative...but you cannot get more relative than a hungry stomach, a roof over your head, and no hope for anything better for the foreseeable future.

Let us be more caring. Be good. Do good and be nice to one another.