I am referring to her letter on Wednesday, 'Mas Selamat: Shocked and disappointed'.

Dr Lim is being very patronising in describing the officers, who have been taken to task, as 'little people'. They are professionals who, also being human, had unfortunately made some mistakes.

We all make mistakes. These officers must not lose heart and must endeavour to do better and learn from this incident. It seems to me that the officers have accepted the disciplinary actions and sanctions imposed on them. I salute them.

It is Dr Lim who cannot accept this outcome because it is too boring and bloodless. She obviously wants a more dramatic and colourful ending to the Mas Selamat story. As she writes in her blog, she demands that a 'large public gesture' be made and this grand gesture must be nothing less than a minister offering to resign and the Prime Minister rejecting it.

I know Dr Lim means well but she must continue to suffer her disappointment in the real and virtual company of a few.

Any claim that her view is universally held by ordinary people in the real world is fictional.

This kind of political theatre is not what the 'little people' want.

We want straightforward, practical action. No need for grand gestures, symbols and theatrical effects.

This is my humble opinion but it is also shared by my friends and family in the world of 'little people'.

Ooi Boon Hock