Do comment, but I am not here for a heated argument or engage
new enemies or whatsoever. Kinda of long passage but enjoy reading!
My 2-cents
Every time when we try exploring why terrorist exist in this world,
maybe we should try understanding psychology regarding this issue
first. Regardless of whether what ones doing is fanatics or
whatsoever, that particular kind of actions or behaviour can be
classified as psychotic acts - agree? This does not only exist in
international level, but I could say that a terrorist exist in
most of us. Why? Just take a look around our neighbourhood and
closely our daily lives, it is there, every moment,
everywhere.
Let me relate a true incident to you and let you reader to judge.
What I am going to write here involves a motorcyclist and a
motor-vehicle i.e myself.
In order to travel to work, I always need to turn into the main
Choa Chu Kang Road near the future Police Academy facility. Usually
the traffic will be rather busy as the road is a single lane road
and the road gets jammed up due to the security checks new the TAB.
Normally I would have a hard time getting into the traffic. Not
much different today as well 
Today, I went thru the same procedure, waiting for my opportunity
to turn into the main road. I notice afar there were 3 motorcycles
headed my way; I suppose that they are approximately 150 metres or
more away from where I was, so I went ahead and make my turn into
the main road. Everything was fined, a check on my rear view mirror
and turns out that the bikes were still some distance away from me
- good clearance I should say. Standard legal speed, but wait!
There was one particular bike that seems to be accelerating rather
fast come towards my rear. It tail gated me, and then move to my
right, getting extremely close to my vehicle. I could have knocked
him down with just a accidental twitch on my steering wheel.
I thought of this as nothing initially, but I was wrong. The
motorbike proceeds to overtake my vehicle and remain a slow moving
pace in the middle of the lane. And I thought he was in a hurry?
Not so, he just wants to get in front of me, but then again?
Motorcycles have the ability to zip in and out of narrow traffic
and move on faster than other vehicles. So whats the problem with
this bike? I am not sure. Perhaps, his heart cannot accept
another vehicle that joins his traffic - when it is in front of
his way? Anyway, he continues to go on a rather slow pace hogging
the road for like 5 minutes or more. As we are heading towards the
Lim Chu Kang direction, this hogging did not stop until we almost
reach Teen Challenge compound. The reason I put it as hogging is
that this motorbike is travelling like as if it is a car, leading
slow pace and yet staying in the middle of lane all this while. I
am sure you see don't this often. It didnt occur to me that he was
up to something.
As I said, it was until we reached Teen Challenge that he finally,
following a Nissan, he impatiently overtook some 5 vehicles,
including a TIBS/SMART bus, with another vehicle heading towards
them in the opposite direction (on the opposite lane) and all this
was done when the road begins to slope up (huge blind spot!). This
is not all. Everything makes sense (the hogging, the close brush
with my vehicle, the overtaking though he only travel slowly etc),
when he finally reached the cross junction at the end of the TAB. I
was going to turn left into the slip road for Jurong; I think he
was heading towards Lim Chu Kang area - who the hell knows as he
never signals. When he stopped at the junctions waiting the traffic
light to turn green, he yanked up his helmets visor, and turns
around and stared at me while I was reaching the junction and
readying to turn into the slip road into Jalan Bahar. His eyes were
virtually glued to my vehicle and me! As my sister was lo-panging
my car, we were both rather taken aback as this motorcyclist is not
young but at least in his 60s already and yet, he his behaving like
a immature adult. Unbelievable. I have been driving for 8 years now
and never had I single problem with motorcyclist. At least not with
this kind of species... For those who drives, you know how
motorcyclist manages to get pass you whenever he had been overtaken
and if you're slow and almost 90% of them always travel on either
side of the lane, never in the middle. Anyway, I did a check on my
rear-view mirror again and he was pointing and talking to the
motorcycle behind him, properly complaining about me...*sigh* when
can people start growing up and what the h*** did I do wrong?
Today incident reminds me of a similar event some 3-4 months ago.
It was an exact scenario (and the same area) and that time I was
horned by the motorcycle. The thing, he wasn't even close when I
turned into the main road! It was memorable, because I never hear
any motorcycles horned at any vehicle before. They always manage to
get past any obstacles that gets in their way. Could it be the
same person? I am not sure, but most probably.
Maybe it is the psychotic mind that we have in us that makes
always feel unfair? Unfair even though fellow beings have
signalled their intention to change lane? Unfair because there was
traffic jam and you cannot wait but others can should and can wait?
So we jumped queue, because the traffic jam is causing unfairness
in you (but not to others?)? In this case, we shouldnt be
complaining or commenting about things like youth robbing, raping
and causing mischiefs, IF we think this form of psychotic
behaviour is rightful just because we are treated unfairly. Why?
Because the youth in question could be thinking the same too. They
will think that it is unfair for them to be deprived of something
in their life that they have to resort to crime in order bring a
balance to this unfairness. Is this the case? I not sure this
should be. Youll be the judge.
Everyone has their own selfish reasons and its always about me, me
and me. Most of us have a fanatics side in us. We held on to
things and would do almost everything for it (our believes), this
include hobbies or causes (protecting the sharks? the trees etc,
but I'm not saying this is wrong) that we believe in so dearly. In
the process of doing so, we never bother to think what will happen
as consequence of our actions. Just like the saying goes: "one
man's pain is another man gain."
I am not sure whats the professional term for this psychotic
behaviour or strange phenomenon in us, but most vengeances are the
results of this behavior. We envy, we jealous and we hate and
usually extreme hatred turns in violence. We envy what others have
achieves, envy that they can make such a progress. We are jealous
of their achievement, we are jealous that they can achieve more
than us. Finally we hate them for what they are for being our
perceived achiever.
To be continued