Ever heard before? Now you do. This is my employer later habit. Remember the Malaysian health minister's scandal? Mr Chua suak leng? When the time his "sex activity" was recorded and sold for free, me and Jojo followed the story from the newspaper. Sometime I need to explained to her what the meaning of betrayal and trust, sex and morality. And to make it easier for her to understand I used her mother relationship with her married boyfriend as example. Anyway Jojo is already 10 years old.
And when one upon the night, she told the mother about the Chua Suak leng's story with clear, her mother look so surprise and worry. I think she never guess that Jojo will ever care to read the newspaper, because as her knowing, Jojo was never like read. But she did. She asked her mother " Ma, you know or not that actually Chua suak leng already have a wife and children. And she have S E X with his girlfriend, someone record it and then they sold it out. And now...he got fired!"
"Where you got it?"
"From newspaper. And you know, if already married can't have girlfriend or boyfriend. That's bad. It's called betray...."
"How do you know?"
"Mey told me..!"
O..O I'm in trouble.....
"Stop read newspaper! Read your text book!" scold her mother.
"Why? Can't read newspaper, mah?" challenge Jojo. No answer from her mother. The conversations stop till there. But the actions start in the next morning.
I always read the newspaper when all my chorus done. But since that day I can't do my routine because my mom brought the newspaper to office. I guess it because of the Chua Suak Leng incident. She got newspaper phobia. Poor me..can't read news again.
