Who is the Phantom?
Aug
The world famous musical “Phantom of the Opera” disclosed the real phantom behind the theatre. Unfortunately, recently I dicovered that I was also a phantom in a musical played but someone else.
Have you ever tried to google for yourself? Type your name in the search box and just see what turns up. I did so recently out of curiosity. I typed in my full name with the “ ” and any webpages with my name indside appears in the result page. And guess what rank number 3?
The first two webpages was something I am familiar with because I used to register myself as a tutor in my college year. But, the third result was this : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/harakahdaily/message/2668.
Finding my name appearing in this website with a lot of other names is surprising enough but it shocked me to see that my IC number were stated as well. Then, I scroll up and read. These are the members of MCA registered in 2001. What? I have never register myself as a MCA member. Then I started to recall the news I read in the papers some years back regarding phantom members in the political parties in Malaysia. Am I one of them?
Since it is registered by a professor in TARC, I type in a few more of my college friends’ name and found two of my course mates were also listed. I am 100% sure I did not register myself by filling any forms but again the college have access to all our personal information so they can easily manipulate the information. This is just too unfair. I hate the fact that my IC number is being published and made known to everyone in the world. Who knows what others can do with it.
I called MCA headquarters to check if the membership is still valid. All I need to do to give them my IC number and they could check my membership over the telephone with no further verification required. According to her, I was registered in 2001 in Cheras branch for a year. She even tried to get me to reactivate the account with only RM 20.00 per year or RM 100.00 for life-time membership. I merely thank her and hang up. This is just too absurd. In 2001, I was a year One student in my college and have never ever been to Cheras. I do not stay there, do not study in that area, do not work there and do not have a relative who stayed there so why would I register with the MCA branch there? But, should I just report this abuse to MCA? or should I file a report with other parties? Which is white? Who is in the dark?
I have no answers to all the questions. All I know is that…..I was a PHANTOM.
