Catherine Lim's Blog Posting on the Mas Selamat Scandal

Of the many, many words typed for blogs, newspapers and forums on the Mas Selamat Escape and Commission of Inquiry Report, this blog posting by Catherine Lim is one of the best.

Once you've read the blog post, read the comments. There's an interesting post which points out oddities and contradictions in the COI report. Many of these have appeared in forum posts, but the points are nicely laid out here.

I first heard of Catherine Lim while a student in Catholic Junior College. Apparently, she had been a teacher there, or had given lectures or seminars there. Her short stories are what I've enjoyed most from the few of her books that I've read. I remember reading a collection of ghost stories (the title may have been "They Do Return....but Gently Lead Them Back" ) that I found in the queenstown library many years ago.

You can find a good number of her books on Amazon.com, but the older books seem to be available in very small quantities only. Which is sad. There is a wikipedia entry on her writing.