Teenage boy slashed to death in Sabah an awakening lesson for parents
On the fourth week of Advent in 2016, people of Sabah and Malaysia are abuzz with the news of a teenage boy being slashed outside a pub at 4am for his group of friends intervened in a domestic fight between a divorced couple. Despite the 18-year-old boy's heroic act in shielding the girl from getting hurt during the attack, Netizens are still lambasting nasty comments on the social media that the group should never be at that "dangerous" place in the first place. I was irked by the public's comments until a conversation with my parent recently. "It is his parents' fault for letting them out there in the wee hours, some more it is a dangerous place". My dad, who is the infamous parent among my siblings, has been a strict guardian for us that we keep on wondering why God gives us such a conservative dad. Our duty as a young child was just to stay at home and study academic books as well as pass the exam with flying colors. Whe...