It could be my bank ....

Yesterday, out of the blue came the news of a local bank being swindled of RM 37.0 million. Actually, this happened 2 years ago and only now are we told by the media. The police that have investigated since the bank realized that it has been cheated does not reveal much beyond saying that case is under investigation, several witnesses have been interviewed and no arrests have been made. The news mentioned that the bank had been operating for the last 26 years.

Since no one is telling, now, which bank started operating 26 years ago. This takes us back to 1985. It cannot be any of the big banks like Maybank, CIMB, Public, for they have been here much earlier or banks like EBB, Hong Leong which are recently established. It cannot be Bank Rakyat, can it ? The closest that comes to mind is Rashid Hussain.

What happened was that the moment the loan was approved and the whole RM 37.0 million was disbursed, the swindlers disappeared. Obviously, some bank insiders were certainly involved; else how could a loan of such magnitude be approved and the whole amount disbursed in one ago.

The evil that is Capcom ....

I and a few others in the family are great fans of the Resident Evil series of games right when it was first introduced in the 1990s. The first was played on the PS One device, followed by several others on the PS Two and finally on the PS3. In between, RE Veronica was on the Sega platform, while other RE episodes were on Wii and XBox 360 platforms.

The evil that Capcom perpetrates on it's faithful followers is why it abandons us for its greed to profiteer by being in cahoots with other game consoles like Sega, Wii, XBox 360 when it could easily allow their games to be played on all platforms.

The truth is, manufacturers of game consoles know that the only way to promote sales of their consoles is to promote RE games on their consoles, as though other games are not good enough to attract buyers.

Console manufacturers would team up with Capcom for temporary exclusivity rights for their RE games only in order to increase sales of their consoles. Here I blame Capcom for being too greedy to accept the exclusivity rights. Capcom then can demand fees over and above what it would get in the normal course of letting its games be playable on the consoles.

Talking about resident evil, I find the Wesker character in Resident Evil: Afterlife is wrongly played. While he tries to impress us by mimicking the way the game Wesker talks, his looks are entirely different. While the Albert Wesker that we all know is square-jawed, showing a perfect set of teeth when talking, with his head topped by straight-fcombed hair with no parting, and is exuding pure evil, the Hollywood Wesker, however, is round-chin, baby faced actor more suitable for a Disney movie. Nah ! It's a wrong characterization of a softie playing a tough guy. Chris and Claire Redfields are, to me, perfect representations, while Jill Valentine is passable but should be a wee bit bosomy as the Jill in RE 3. Though Alice is a new character, I think Milla Jovovich plays the role perfectly.