Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Botak Chin - The Terror Of Jalan Ipoh Part 2

2 comments
Continued from Botak Chin - Malaysia's Robin Hood ? Part 1

Although his gang was very successful, there were some gangsters who disputed Botak Chin's leadership. This led to confrontations with rival fractions and gangs. To consolidate his power as the supremo gangster in Kuala Lumpur, Botak Chin became involved in gang wars. In one major war, both his rival, Tua Pui Lek (the head of the Five Finger Mountain gang) and Botak Chin's own right hand man, Ah Wong, were killed at a disused tin mine in Jinjang.

Owing to the growing terror in Kuala Lumpur, the police also stepped up their war against Botak Chin. This gained some success where one of his trusted lieutenants Seh Chai killing himself when he was surrounded by the police in Jalan Alor.

Early 1976, Botak Chin started recruiting new members into his gang. This followed with 3 robberies where the gang fled with RM400,000. Despite the successful robberies, 7 of his men were shot dead and a few others were caught. The police confiscated 15 firearms, ammunition and hand granades.

Finally, on February 16 1976 night, he and his gang members was captured by the police in after a shoot out at the Eng Leong sawmill in Jalan Ipoh. Botak Chin miraculously survived despite being seriously injured with 6 gun wounds.

According to the news report by the New Starits Times at that time, Botak Chin implied that he was set up by his own men, one Pang Kok Chye and an Ah Keong.

Botak Chin told the High Court that on that day, he was at the Tiong Nam settlement between 7pm and 8pm when Pang Kok Chye and Ah Keong came to see him. They told him that 2 other people needed help and wanted to meet with him. Botak Chin then follow them by car to the Jalan Ipoh sawmill to meet the 2 people.

Inside the sawmill he sat on a chair for 15 minutes before asking Pang Kok Chye and Ah Keong where were the 2 people they came to meet. He then said he proceeded to make a telephone call. After the call, as he was replacing the receiver, shooting started outside. He then felt pain all over his body. He became weak and giddy then fell to the floor. Only then he realised that he had been shot.

Botak Chin claimed that during the shooting, Pang Kok Chye and an Ah Keong ran to the back of the mill. Then, when the shooting stopped, something was thrown into building filling the room with smoke. He found it difficult to breathe and became unconscious. When he regained consciousness, he found himself in hospital. Botak Chin also denied being involved in robberies and said that his name was used by others who committed the robberies.

However, a senior police officer testified in court that Botak Chin was conscious during his arrest. Botak Chin allegedly told police officers who arrested him that if he wasn't injured in his arms he would have shot and killed many of them. Botak Chin apparently said, "Kalau saya punya due tangan tidak jem, saya sudah tembak. Lu nasib baik."

Upon Botak Chin's capture, many rumours began circulating about his alleged invincibility. Some people believed that the reason the police was able to wound and apprehend Botak Chin was because, on that day, he left home without wearing his tangkal. Another version is that the police went to Thailand and obtained the assistance Botak Chin's bomoh siam to defeat him.

According to newspaper reports, at the time of capture, Botak Chin with him a green cloth with Siamese writing and a plastic green purse containing a note book. He also wore 3 tangkal - one tangkal round his neck and 2 other tangkal round his waist.

Apparently Botak Chin protested when the police wanted to remove the tangkal, saying "Ini saya punya tokong". Botak Chin also wore a Rolex watch, a gold chain with 2 pendants and a jade gold ring. Police also found in his wallet some money (RM231, HK10, 50 pieces of Japanese "banana" notes and some baht) and photograph of 2 women.

On May 12 1980, 27 year old Botak Chin, facing 3 charges under the Internal Security Act at the Kuala Lumpur High Court, denied having possession of firearms or ammunition under his possession or control. He denied that even the 2 pouches of bullets found in his trouser pockets during the saw mill incident were his. He claimed he did not know how they came to be in his pockets, reported the New Straits Times.

He was sentenced to death by the High Court in 1980. The next year, on Jan 1, 1981, while on death row, he made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from his cell in Pudu prison, stabbing prison wardens but was seriously injured himself. On June 11, 1981, at 3am, Botak Chin was hanged.

Dr Mahadevan, the former director of Tanjung Rambutan Mental Hospital in Perak, who treated Botak Chin for 19 days to determine if he was sane enough to stand trial, found Botak Chin to be highly intelligent - but a "misguided genius".

At the mental hospital Botak Chin told Dr. Mahadevan that since he was a young boy he always wanted to help the poor and down-trodden. He wanted to protect them from corrupt officials and gangsters who extorted money from the poor and weak. Botak Chin revealed that he was once brutally attacked by gangsters who entered his vegetable stall at the market and tried to extort money from him, failing which, they beat him until his collar bone was fractured.

This incident changed his life. Botak Chin then started to learn martial arts and joined a gang for protection. He also encouraged people to join his secret society so that they wont be harmed and exploited. Members of his secret society had to swear not to take advantage of the poor, cut their hair short and not take dadah.

He further told Dr. Mahadevan that in his kampung people regarded him as Robin Hood because he robbed from the rich and gave a considerable amount of the spoils to the poor. Apparently, part of the loot went to his gang and part of it went to the family of those members who were killed or caught by the police.

This possibly explains why he managed, time and time again, to hide and gain refuge in the squatter settlements when pursued by the police - with the goodwill he had with the poor, the community were helping him escape. He was their hero.

Botak Chin was no ordinary gangster. His secret society was guided by his philosophy and governed by strict principles and guidelines. These had to complied with by everyone, including himself. To enforce discipline among his troops and keep order in the gang, he had executed henchmen who had breached the rules. He was not a killer, he was their taikor and he was just doing his job, he told Dr. Mahadevan.

Having built a reputation of reverence among society as Robin Hood, people, especially the lower classes, treated him as such. During his stay at the hospital, patients offered to wash his clothes and perform chores for him.

Although Botak Chin never married, he had plenty of female admirers. Dr Mahadevan said he would get calls from women inquiring about Botak Chin when he was at the hospital.

Dr Mahadevan said that Botak Chin was rushed back to Kuala Lumpur when a bullet was found in his high security hospital cell because it appeared that his men were coming to help him escape.

During his final days, he sought solace in various religions. While it was his dying wish was to donate his organs for medical purposes, this request was rejected as he had not signed a written consent.

Please post your comments.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Human Fat Used In Cosmetics

0 comments


The Peruvian police said last week that they have caught up with a gang of 4 that had killed dozens of people for their fat.

The gang sold the dead victim's fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics. The fat collected was then stored in used soda and water bottles before it was sold to cosmetics and pharmaceutical companies in Europe.

According to news reports, the gang allegedly targeted people in remote areas, luring them with phony job offers for the purpose of killing them for their fat.

As the market price for human fat is as high as RM52,500 a litre, it is not surprising that this lucrative "killing for fat" has been going on for the last 30 years.

The police are now also searching for people who bought the fat or are associated with the gang.

This sinister scheme is similar to the scenes in the movie Fight Club, when antihero Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) steals bags of human fat (see pic above) from the dumpster of a liposuction clinic to make soap.

What will people think of next ? Some people like the pork lard in Char Koay Teow. Maybe, in future, human lard will be used instead ... double yummy ! but then the price will also increase from its current RM4.50 per plate to RM100 per plate. Makan minyak orang mati...


Please post your comments.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Botak Chin - Malaysia's Robin Hood ? Part 1

0 comments

Wong Swee Chin aka Botak Chin is probably Malaysia's most notorious gangster in the 70s. Botak Chin, the self styled modern-day Robin Hood, was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1951 to a family of 10 children. As his father was a retiree who worked with the Malayan Railways, they lived at the Malaysian Railway quarters next to the Caltex station in Jalan Ipoh.

Botak Chin studied at a Chinese vernacular primary school and then went on to attend the Methodist Boys’ Secondary School in Sentul up to Form 3 (the Lower Certificate of Education), after which, he quit school.

Having left school at age 15, Botak Chin started working as a fishmonger at Jalan Tun Ismail (formally Maxwell Road) market. After his mother's death, he often spent time away from home preferring to live with his friends. Away from his father's watchful eye, he then got involved with the local hoodlums where he was initiated into committing petty crimes. This, in turn, led to him joining his first gang; the 360 gang (Sak Pak Lok).

At the age of 18, in 1969, when he illegally obtained his first firearm (a .22 revolver), he formed his own gang and proceeded with robbing sprees. This led to his first arrest, conviction and prison sentence. He then spent a few years in prison.

However, within a few months upon his release from prison in 1974, he formed a new gang with Ng Cheng Wong (aka Ah Wong), Beh Kok Chin (aka Pangkor Chai) and Teh Bok Lay (aka Seh Chai). A month prior to this, he went to Thailand to purchase guns. Then on June 2 1975, readily armed, the gang hit an illegal gambling den in Sentul and made off with RM5,800. With the proceeds from that robbery, Botak Chin "reinvested in his business" - he again went to Thailand to acquire even more firearms and ammunition - he apparently bought another 8 pieces of firearms and 100 bullets.

The gang used a vacant tin mine in Kepong as their shooting range, targeting stray dogs. There were also reports that Botak Chin used to openly display his gun at the Sentul market but nobody dared offend him for fear of being made a victim.

On July 20 1975, now with even more "tools of trade" - the new firearms - the gang became more ambitious, they robbed a bank in Jalan Imbi and fled with RM95,000. They then gunned down several mahjong players inside a Chinese temple in Jalan Kolam Ayer and made off with RM10,000. This was big money in those days, as a double storey house in Subang cost only about RM15,000, then.

Because of his many robberies, gun battles with the police and feuds with rival gangs, Botak Chin needed more firearms and ammunition, possibly to enlarge his "army" and strengthen his position. To easily obtain these weapons, he targeted policemen next - in one case, he attacked 3 policemen and took their pistols.

It is also understood that Botak Chin made frequent trips to Thailand not only to procure illegal firearms and but also to obtain protective talisman (called tangkal) from Siamese shamans (locally called bomoh siam or bomoh Thai) practicing black magic.

It is believed that the reason he managed to successfully evade capture, survive and escape from numerous gun battles with the police is because he wears a very powerful Phra Pidta tangkal obtained from a bomoh siam.

In one epic incident in Segambut Dalam involving a shootout with the police, he managed to slip away unharmed, despite his car being riddled with bullets. This led to many rumours claiming that the tangkal he was wearing made him invulnerable (kebal) to bullets, knives and even poison. Some even believed that he could become invisible, at will, thus escaping unseen.

Botak Chin is fearless and determined in pursuing his goals. On 25 September, although one of his right hand men, Chau Kuan (aka Ah Kuan) was shot dead at a sundry shop at Jalan Kovil Hilir, this did not cripple his gang activities or demoralise his will.

Their biggest hit was on Oct 26 1975, where the gang fled with RM218,000 after gunning down a security guard delivering money to a horse racing club. With his share of approximately RM40,000 from the robbery, he again went to Thailand. This time he purchased even more weapons adding his arsenal to 19 guns, 5 hand grenades and 1,000 bullets.

Business was looking good for Botak Chin and his men.

To be continued...in Part 2

Please post your comments.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Rose Chan - The Legendary Malaysian Adult Entertainer

0 comments


Rose Chan (1925 – May 26, 1987) was a cabaret dancer turned "Queen of Striptease" who has become legendary in Malaysia. Apparently, in the late 1970s, she received a RM3 million offer from an American publisher for her autobiography, but the deal fell through when she insisted on USD$3 million instead.

Rose Chan was born in Soochow, China, to parents who were acrobats. In 1931, at 6 years old, she came to Kuala Lumpur with her adoptive mother. She had no formal education, apart from 8 months of schooling at the age of 12.

After many odd jobs and a failed marriage, she became a cabaret dancer.

In 1952, at the age of 27, was the turning point of her career. She transformed herself from a top cabaret girl to the "Queen of Striptease". Rose Chan had gained fame in many parts of the world including Germany, France, Britain, Australia, and Indonesia.

Please post your comments.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Sabah Elf Captured On Camera

0 comments
Sin Chew recently reported that a "big headed elf" was spotted in Kenigau, Sabah. Elves (singular Elf) are believed to be divine or semi-divine beings having magical powers which they can either use to help or harm mankind. Elves in this part of the world are similar to what the locals call orang bunian.

The picture of the big headed elf was captured by a Sabah Foundation officer. He claimed that the picture was inadvertently captured when he was taking random pictures of a construction site with his hand phone.

In the picture, the elf appears to be near a 60 year old fig tree riding on a dog's neck.

The local Dusun people called the fig tree the 'Death Tree' and sacrificial chicken or swine are often offered in front of the tree by the community.

It is believed that the construction might have “disturbed” the spirits occupying the area.

Although local elves usually inhabit the forests, some are known to live near the Kampungs. According to folklore, these spirits exist in large communities, similar to human social structures, with families and clans.

Please post your comments.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

How To Pick Up Chinese Girls In Malaysia

2 comments




Picking up Chinese girls in Malaysia is no longer as easy as it once was, two decades ago. This is thus the gwai lo (white man) guide to picking up Chinese girls in Malaysia today. Watch the video above first.



Here are some additional tips:



If you meet a cute Malaysian Chinese girl at a bar or club, don't start the conversation on topics like Karate Kid, ninja, anything kung fu, dragons or crouching tigers.



Don't try breaking the ice by asking if she's Lucy Liu or Coco Lee. Because chances are, she's not.



Trying to impress a Chinese girl by attempting some kung fu moves when you dance isn't cool.



As not all Chinese women are erotic masseuses and dancers, manicurists or hairdressers, as portrayed in travel literature, so don't ask her if she can "love you long time". In Malaysia, the social demographics is different. White collar Malaysian Chinese professional women are in the hundreds of thousands and a sizable number of them were educated abroad. These are the women you are most likely to meet in bars and clubs. The working class Chinese women in Malaysia speak mainly Chinese and are not proficient in English. They, for some reason, do not generally prefer to socially interact with Caucasians or anyone outside their race who don't speak Chinese.



Finally, don't ask her if she likes "White Guys". Because you won't want to be disappointed by her answer, as some can be sarcastic and will say they prefer Blacks instead. Others might just ask you point blank, "where did you do your tertiary education and what do you do for a living" or "whether you were you doing professionally well in your own country". They ask this to assess how much you're worth.



It is also important to bear in mind that Chinese women are materialistic and do evaluate men according to social hierarchy. Due to the "rise and fall" of Caucasian expats in Malaysia in the last two decades, they have learned that not all gwai lo are close to being Bill Gates or Prince William, and neither are they all top tier "Investment Bankers". But they will gladly accept all the free food, drinks and gifts from a gwai lo without feeling the obligation to reciprocate the courtesy in any way whatsoever.



However, having said all this, being flash and generous is, in most cases, a prerequisite to your success in picking up Malaysian Chinese women. Money will indeed still take you a long way, but not all the way, as it used to.



Please post your comments.





Share/Save/Bookmark

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Myspace Casanova Targets Chubby Girls

0 comments
The above pic is for illustrative purposes only

A Malay tabloid reported that a 19 year old Casanova called "Shafiq" is at large sweet talking teenage chubby girls into giving him money and then leaving them stranded.

Shafiq, unemployed, apparently uses social networking website Myspace to seek out his victims. He is known to target only chubby or plump girls between the ages of 18 to early 20s. It is believed that upon persuading the girls to meet him offline, he charms them by giving them a jade necklace charged with black magic spells, to wear.

According to the news report, once the girl wears the jade necklace, she is powerless to resist Shafiq's requests.

Please post your comments.

Noor Azura Mohd Yusoff Appeals

0 comments
Noor Azura Mohd Yusoff, the Malaysian prostitute based in Birmingham, England who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in August last year for killing a Chinese karaoke hostess Evelyn Xie Xing Xing, is in the news again.

The 23 year old Noor Azura, now held at the Holloway women’s prison in London, is currently awaiting decision of her appeal at Royal Court of Justice in the UK.

If her appeal is allowed by the court, her earlier conviction will be quashed and the prosecution could ask for a re-trial, the Malay Mail reported.

Noor Azura’s boyfriend, 28 year old Trach Lon Gian, a Vietnamese, who was also convicted for the same crime is currently serving 22 years at Long Lartin prison in Worcestershire . Trach Lon Gian, has also appealed against his convictions and sentence.

Please post your comments.

Monday, November 2, 2009

7 Movies "Based On A True Story" (That Are Complete Bullshit)

0 comments
Did you know that when a Hollywood movie says it is based on a true story it does not mean it is 100% based on the real story. Hollywood usually takes creative liberties to add, subtract or modify the facts and circumstances of the real story and make it into a film.

Visit - 7 Movies "Based On A True Story"

These movies where not 100% based on true stories.

Please post your comments.
 

The Malaysian Life Copyright © 2008 Black Brown Pop Template by Ipiet's Blogger Template