Watch the clip and decide if you need this kind of government - who will definitely help you, only if you help them.

FYI, the money they're gonna 'help' you is the Malaysian citizen + taxpayer's money.

It has never been and will never be BN's money.

Love is a difficult subject.

But I chose to make a video that has love as the theme.

Ah... it's not easy at all.

Inspiration is urgently needed.

Even The Beatles also can't help - I'm sure (referring to one of their songs "All You Need is Love")

The feeling of 'lack of inspiration' (when you need the inspiration), is worse than having constipation for many days.

Read this news

The woman will be charged for culpable homicide, for killing a robber.

Fair.

But what punishment will she get?

I don't hope one day the robber will say to the victim, (while running away) "Come and kill me, you'll be charged for culpable homicide, I DARE YOU!"

A better judgment needs to be made, period.

Everytime after I helped people in relationship problem,
I'll tend to feel a little depressed.

I'll have more free time now and then.

Yes it's over for them,
But look at me... hmm....

No one will solve my problem but myself.

The sun will rise again tomorrow.

So I shall rest the case :)

Sometimes when you help someone without asking for returns,

and they take advantage,

It's time to keep your helping hands.

It will save everybody's time.

That summaries what most of the people thought.

You can see the details of the review result, here

But I'll just take a few points:

1) Import duty on CBU & CKD cars maintained.
2) AP system is not scrapped, again
3) Vehicles 15 years and older will have to be tested annually for roadworthiness.

To elaborate the points:
1) Means we'll still have to enjoy the expensive foreign car, if we can't bear with the local made car, which is also unfortunately, at lower quality.
2) With no import duty on CBU & CKD, AP is not needed in the first place!(Thanks to Weihan for the correction)
3) The options are rather simple here:
i) Owner of the 15+ year-old car will need to go to Puspakom annually to test the car.

At least RM100 will be spent, and hours (or, days?) will be spent on waiting the checkup to be completed
ii) Sell the car and get the rebate of RM5k, which can only be used to buy national car.


Enough of these cronies shit!!!

Only 3 parties will get the benefit
i) Govt
ii) Puspakom
iii) National car manufacturer + seller


And I'll just repeat the same old point I've been stressing all this while:

With the incomplete public transportation system that we have in Malaysia, car is a necessity rather than a luxury

So why do you want to put burden on the citizen?

That's very 1Malaysia.

People (suffer) First, (exploitation) Performance Now

Tough

This project is tougher than I thought.

Spent few hours still get not much of positive result.

Still learning to use the software.

Optical Character Recognition is definitely not quite a fun thing to do.

It's simply a step backward

So, credit card holder will be charged RM50 per card, annually starting next year.

The reason behind this move was to 'reduce the card holder's amount of card'

What do I use with my card?

1) So that I don't carry much of cash
2) Do online payment (for online shopping)
3) Direct debit for my bill

I'll further justify on the points:

1) It's not safe to carry that much of cash in Malaysia
2) Obviously, I can't use cash for online shopping
3) With the slow service I face at the payment counter, I'd love to do direct debit - I don't have to queue up, I don't have to drive, I don't have to find carpark.

With electronic transaction as a norm nowadays, based on what, the government has the right to impose this RM50 for owning something that gives convenience?

That's very 1Malaysia indeed.

(Charge) People 1st, Performance Now (to charge)

Instead, I need a superman for this superhero-like brand.

Dell and HP are big players in PC/laptop market.

While I'd suggest to go for clone machine (i.e. DIY or self-assembling with selection of different brand of peripherals) in the PC category, for laptop, it's not wise to go for DIY model, for a very obvious reason:

After sales support.

I'm a user of both HP and Dell laptop.

Unfortunately for me, my HP laptop in its 5 years life time so far, had(or has) the following defects:

1) Spoiled power charger (which cost me 100 pounds to purchase in UK)
2) Dead pixel on my LCD
3) Spoilt card reader
4) HDD with bad sector
5) Battery that last for half an hour after 2 years of usage

The reason I blogged about this is because I had another HP laptop case, that the graphic display went haywire in just 3 months.

Their call centre only opens Mon-Fri, which requires you to send(and collect later) your laptop to their repair centre.

On the other hand, if I could spend just RM400 extra, I get a Dell laptop with:

1) 1 Year onsite support
2) A Windows (the HP didn't come with OS)
3) An Intel processor (instead of the AMD heat generator)

Just spend that little premium, that gives you peace of mind.

And most importantly,I hope my Dell won't give me the same sh*t like HP's.

Oh before I forget, my friend just buzzed me for a HP laptop with issue.

Paddle pop, wow. Paddle pop, yay!

Ok. This is old news.

But I'd like to make a point here - F1 is a luxury sport, everyone knows that.

You'll need to invest more, to outperform others.

And sometimes, even if you invest a lot doesn't mean it'll end with good outcome (take Toyota F1 for example - invested a lot but still not the top team, yet)

So how could, 1Malaysia F1, achieve good results with no experience in F1 development (ok, they have, by getting the old & outdated Lotus team's technology) achieve good result in another half year? (that's when season 2010 will start)

So why put the name 1Malaysia? Most likely it will get the very poor positions in its first season - is it gonna put bad image on the '1Malaysia' name?

While I'm not criticising the car's choice of colour (it looks like Wall's Paddle Pop, to be honest) I'm even interested to know why 1Malaysia can't purchase an existing team (such as BMW, which Petronas is one of the sponsor, and they are leaving by the end of this year) - instead, putting in more money to build from scratch?

For budget of hundreds of millions (F1's budget cap is £40 million), can't Malaysia put those money into better investment such as infrastructure upgrade in the country, to help to achieve Vision 2020?

1Malaysia F1 won't help us achieving that vision, at least we know that.

My Screamyx (Streamyx) is down for the third consecutive nights.

Every time I called, the answer I get will be "It will be fixed tomorrow"

Of course, I argued all the way to the manager - but what can they do? The network engineer only work during office hour.

So, at the same time, I think I should take this chance to sleep more

I saw this from The Star website.

How do you define "patriotism" ?

By having the celebration event annually?

By having the ministers giving the 'feel good' statements as if nothing bad happened lately?

Patriotism should be in every citizen's heart - and by practicing things that is good for the country.

It's definitely not just plain talking.

Thanks The Star for representing the mentality of Malaysians.

I'll put it as a very simple logic:

If you want to attend a funeral, please attend it with respect - not covered with umbrella to avoid the media.

More over, you are a super star, you serve as an idol to people - your fans might use your way of life as their own reference.

If you are afraid of the crazy fan attacking etc, and you can't trust the efficiency the bodyguard - fine, don't attend, and I don't think the dead person will blame you - after all it's the heart that counts.

The basic fact is, if you want people to respect you, first you must respect yourself.

Here, I can see big disrespect towards the dead person, especially in the eyes of Chinese community.

This video, by late Yasmin Ahmad, reflects some of the Chinese Malaysian mentality.

For the first part, I interpreted it as "Malaysia is not a good place for Chinese Malaysia, you should go to other countries, where they appreciate your talent and sponsor your studies"

But the guy seemed to love this country, wanted to protect his mother, appreciate his friends and whatnot, therefore was reluctant to accept the offer.

Come to the second part, he seemed to have a crush on the Malay Malaysian girl. But before he could further proceed - his mum stopped him.

This is the painful reality - for even if a particular descendant (note, I'm reluctant to use the word 'race') has affection on other descendant, they can't proceed because of the biased view, discrimination etc - brain-washed by family or even the society.

And not to forget, the government policy or even the religion perceived by individual descendant, played a big role to stop all these cultural interaction.

Therefore, while non-Malay descendant love to say they are oppressed, did they really try to give before they could take?

This is the last laugh Yasmin Ahmad had on Malaysia's unity.

It is both funny and sad.

If this (the original content in Malay) is true, and the related people are caught for justice - this will be the best Merdaka gift for this country.

You can see the partial Chinese translated content here.

Justice for Beng Hock & Justice for 1Malaysia!

One must know that, before this, the Ministry of Education had already taken away the school's field.

Earlier, it was a mine lake. It was reclaimed by the Mun Choong committee - with their own money & arrangement.

Not long after reclamation, the Minister of Education asked the committee to surrender the filled land, and subsequently built a secondary school on Mun Choong's ex-sports field.

I have two profound memory of the field:
1) The sports days, happened annually, were the exciting days for all the Mun Choong people to come together
2) Far away - nearing the end of the field, there's some old trees and had some playground facilities. They were aging but there's one 'alternative gadget' to play with - the hanging vines.

At least my father demonstrated on how to swing with the hanging vines(like tarzan) (and he was a teacher at the time, what a teacher)

So, I can't remember clearly, but when I was standard 5 or 6, the field was surrendered to the Ministry for Education.

I didn't feel angry at the time cos I'm not really enthusiastic about the sports - but I did feel sad for the school lost a venue for sports day.

And now I'm doubled the anger, after learning that at least 1 million ringgit were spent to fill up the land.

This is very un-1Malaysia since 15 years ago!

I got the first bill after my dad's and sis' phone become my supplementary lines.

So the bill was quite confusing. (and it still is)

But I found that they didn't include my sis' bill as itemised - but they did for my dad's.

So I called up, and customer service said it could be due to when they convert from Digi to Maxis (my sis was a Digi subscriber) they didn't setup the itemised billing.

They will send the hardcopy of the itemised billing, but at the cost of RM5.

Initially I asked for softcopy but they said they don't have this option.

So RM5 is still needed for the itemised billing record.

In the end, I told him that "it's not my fault for not having the itemised billing set up.

First the customer service didn't ask for my opinion on whether to activate this option.
Secondly I'm not gonna pay for your mistake for not setting up the itemised billing."

End of the day, I got:
1) Itemised billing record (for my sister) to be mailed to me free of charge
2) Itemised billing setup for the next cycle onwards.

And for this, my sis only told me "good boy"

Yah, I saw no difference with "good dog"

But at the end of the day, it feels nice to fight for the rights - for I'm quite a soft person :P

So what makes them thinking that a transition needs 6 months to happen?

What about my current transition - which was 2 weeks notice, and merely 1 day transition - strictly speaking?

This is a big organisation - yet you have so many workforce issues - On what are you trying to sell?

On what can you sell?

Yes headcount is a cost - but if you stress people - talented people will leave - it is a greater lost.

If you think we are contributing high cost to the company - very simple, once we find the job, we will leave.

We leave because we don't agree with this company anymore.

We leave because you don't care about employee anymore.

We leave because you treat employee as cost, not asset.

After 6 hours, Carl's Jr Malaysia replied.

The director of operations replied me, and told me the burgers shortage was due to the delayed arrival of products shipment.

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Hi Trevor,

We thank you for choosing to dine at Carl’s Jr for your dinner and can understand that the unavailability of our products is not exceptatable.

We apologized for the inconvenience caused to you and your friend during your visit at Carl’s Jr Mid Valley on 5th Aug’09.

We are not able to neither take down our menu nor close the restaurant but I agreed with you that we should have provided more information to our customers for the unfortunate circumstances due to our delayed arrival for products in the shipment.

Our sincere apology for your experience and assure you that we strive hard to improve in serving all our customers in all areas. Once again thank you and appreciate your valuable comments which will indeed help us improve further.

Regards,

Sandra Low


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As a conclusion, I'm fine with their explanation (not many people would do that, especially in Malaysia)

And yah, I'm expecting a visit to Carl's Jr, soon :P