Kurauking posted:
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ps:best of all, the person that tag along with me to Bangkok to fish(fish4fun-Kenny Ho) instigated me not to allow John Ang(Bkkguy) to use our photo/video to promote his(John Ang-Bkkguy) business and he also told me to delete my posting for our trip so that other people won’t fall into his trap but then he gave permission to John Ang(Bkkguy) to post our paid trip photo/video…apa ni…??? Backstabber…??? Anyway, i am glad that all this unfortunate events has past and i shall go ahead and live a peaceful life without getting near to them again…
This is a 100% lie by Kurauking (aka Jeffrey Chan of JT Fishing Bazaar in Port Klang).
I am totally appalled that this is the behavior of a moderator on MFN that is vindictive and will resort to lies. As my name is now dragged into the fray because I refused to support Kurauking’s attack on John’s character when he asked me to, he is now also trying to mud-sling me as well. Goes to show the kind of person this Kurauking is. However, I feel enough is enough and I am now obliged to say a word or two of fairness to John at this point.
First, I’d apologize to John for my keeping mum all this while and for not coming out earlier to say a fair word for him when Kurauking was attacking him unfairly all this while. John, please accept my apologies on this. I shall now say what I should have said earlier.
I did not come out in defend of John earlier because:
- Kurauking was (‘is’ until now) my friend (or so I thought);
- Kurauking is a moderator on MFN (supposed to be a person of good repute – but obviously not);
- I was hoping his saga with John would be blown over in a week or two after the Bangkok trip and everything would be forgotten and things would be back to normal. As such, I kept quiet. Guess I was wrong.
I have kept quiet all these while as it is something between Kurauking and John even though I did not agree with what Kurauking did to John in Bangkok. I was there in Bangkok when Kurauking and John fell out over an incident. There is no question that Kurauking is 100% wrong from the ethics point of view.
Kurauking has been inconsiderate, rude and arbitrary to John expecting special treatment and concession from him all the time. When he did not get it, he blows out on John. In my opinion, Kurauking was wrong and unethical. I shall leave it to John if he wants to tell you what exactly transpired between the two of them that started this one-sided venomous attack on John.
In all fairness to John, he is a great guide and is friendly to all unless one asks for the impossible and what is not reasonable. I shall not elaborate what it is here but will only tell my side of the story. John, can tell his separately. Besides, I do not want to waste time on this subject after this posting. I am only coming out now in defense of John’s and my own honour since obviously our silence have been taken as weakness by Kurauking and his lies are getting more and more ridiculous. His claims on John and me do not gel and make sense.
For those that have used John’s guiding service in Bangkok, I am sure they can vouch for what I have said about John. For those that know John and/or me, you will know what kind of persons we are. I don’t need to justify or convince anything.
To set matters straight, Kurauking said that I ‘tag’ along with him to Bangkok. That’s not true. I don’t need to tag along with anyone to go fishing. To say ‘tag’ infers that one does not know the way and needs to depend on another to lead the way. I don’t need to ‘tag’ with Kurauking or anyone to go fishing. I have been fishing in Thailand way before Kurauking has ever been to Thailand and unlike some I also don’t borrow other people’s fishes to take photos with and claim them as my own – just ask John. It just so happened that we both had wanted to fish in Thailand so off we go. There were supposed to be a couple more MFN-ers to go with us together for this trip but they opted out as they were busy. Finally, just the two of us went. Each of us paid our own way. I still have my flight and hotel invoices
Regards the issue about not allowing John to use the pictures he has taken of MY fishing catches in Bangkok, now why wouldn’t I allow John to do that? In fact if he publishes MY photos and uses them properly I have no objections. In fact I gave my OK to John when he asked me for permission to do so.
Kurauking’s accusation of me backstabbing him also do not hold water. He accused me of instigating him to not allow John to post his pictures and videos while I gave permission to John to post mine. This is also a blatant lie. John should be able to tell you the truth as in his heat of the argument that day with John, he threaten to sue John if John publishes any of his pictures and videos. So, why then would I need to ‘instigate’ him to not allow John to publish his pictures/video? He also claims that I told him to delete postings of OUR trip so that others will not fall for John’s trap. What postings? There were none. Well, I am here today to refute Kurauking’s allegations. What he has said are all lies. Period.
However, when Kurauking called me to ask me to revoke my permission to John to publish those pictures/videos on YouTube and MFN saying that I should stand on HIS side against his ‘war’ with John since we are friends and John is only a foreign guide, I reluctantly asked John to remove all MY pictures and videos as I did not want the matter to escalate to a worst point.
John was kind enough to do that. As an added insurance to force John to delete my pictures and videos, someone (no prizes for guessing who here), even went on the despicable act of even using MY email address to sent an email to John threatening to take legal action against him for using my pictures/video in his postings. I have since cancelled this email account on yahoo so if anyone receive any emails from my yahoo mail, it is not from me.
The email to John (using my email address) was made to look like it had come from me to John (using another person’s email address can quite simply be done so don’t think you are an IT specialist). It is however an offence to use someone else’s identity and it can be easily traced via the IP address and reported to the polis. Since I do have an educated guess as to who this person is in this identity stealing, I could have reported to the polis but I did not do so out of respect for him as a friend. I was hoping this ‘war’ with John would also blow over quickly by not making a mountain out of a molehill. What this person did not know was, John sent me the email and asked for clarification on why I had wanted to sue him when he has taken down all my pictures and videos on my request. Thankfully, John understood after I explained to him that I never sent that email. Note that this is not the only identity stealing this person did. Another MFN-er who fished with this person before my trip was also used in the same manner. Again, excising restraint, I did not confront him as I did not want to make matters worse.
Fishing with Kurauking is a pain as he is inconsiderate amongst other unbecoming behaviours. Thankfully, this is my first and last trip with him. When we were in Bangkok fishing with John, the agreement was that one of us will settle all bills for the day and we will square off every night since all of us have a budget and we only have so much Thai bhats changed for the trip. It ended up that I had to settle all Thai expenses to the point where I had run out of Thai and Malaysia currency 2 days before the end of our trip. John will be able to attest and substantiate my claim on this as I was the one paying all the bills including John’s guide fees as well. The nightly settlement of bills between Kurauking and me never took place each night as he puts off the settlement one night after another with excuses even when I asked him. His strategy was so in order that he will not over exchange in his Thai bhats at the end of the trip. His intention was to settle ALL Thai bills/currency on the night before our departure back to KL so that he can then exchanged the ‘right’ amount to pay me. This was exactly what happened. I was thus saddled with an excess of Thai bhat at the end of the trip which should not have happened if we have stuck to our agreement of settling all expenses at the end of each night.
I had treated Kurauking as a friend. I have kept quiet all this while even though what he did and was doing to John is unethical and unprofessional. I gave in to his bidding to ask John to remove all my pictures and video from YouTube and MFN – read MY pictures and videos (Just because he is angry with John does not mean I too have to be angry with John. This is absolutely childish). What I did not agree to do for Kurauking was to join him to character assassinate John. Hence, this vindictive person now wants to character assassinate me as well.
If I have a choice, I would have preferred NOT to expose the real issue out here but enough is enough and Kurauking has only himself to blame for the current state of affairs.
As a moderator on MFN, one would think he would be a person of standing in the community to whom one can respect and emulate. But in his case, it is the opposite. He is using his moderator position to harass and bully others with lies and deception.
Vincent Chin, you can cross check my story with John. Call me if you do not have John’s number. I am exposing for all to know the real truth after months of agonizing silence to know that an innocent man in John is character assassinated and badgered with lies and yet I did not do anything to tell the truth. As you can see and read in all his postings on MFN on John, it is generously spiked with venom and hate. Is this the kind of moderator s we have on MFN? Please DO NOT DELETE this posting from MFN even though and especially so when it involves a moderator. John is innocent of all the lies Kurauking has been telling. Everyone has a right to know the true story since many accusations have been made by Kurauking on John of his character. John is a fishing guide and it is plain that Kurauking is out to destroy John’s live hood with lies and deception just because John did not give in to his arbitrary and unreasonable request. I know; I was there when they quarreled. I have no reason to lie and I do not stand to benefit anything from anyone by taking sides.
I have said all I had wanted to say. You guys form your own conclusions. I will NOT response and waste time on this subject anymore but I would appeal to the landlord of MFN to NOT delete our posts but to allow me and possibly John if he see these postings, to response here and be given a chance to tell our side of the story. Importantly, John will also have a chance to protect his rice bowl from breaking by a rogue moderator on MFN who may have the power to delete our postings and muzzle us from telling the truth.
Fish4fun
