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Should we concentrate on economy than sodomy?

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Sodomy, sodomy… what else the public is concerning nowadays? Wake up. This is not the matter we should focus on! How much price of goods you used to buy daily have been increased in less than 2 months after the fuel price hiked 41% in a night (00:00 at 5th June 2008)? You want a list, here you get a list. (more…)

Nice timing to do so?

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Anwar was out from the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters on police bail. On the other hand, Raja Petra was arrested the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters. The timing is so nicely “match”. If anyone is looking for lucky number, perhaps you can consider asking it from police. (more…)

Extremist? My foot!

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Thanks to Susan Loone for her highlight.

I really TL to the way they reported the news. When people want to have peaceful rally on streets, they said it is not Malaysian culture (but, they can do it), it cause a lot of troubles to the shops nearby (police road blocks cause the traffic jams and block here and there make the atmosphere become fear-like), violence might happened during the rally on the street, blah, blah, blah… So, they suggested their “Brilliant idea place for rally” ~ a stadium.

When the rally held at Stadium, they reported in this way. (more…)

People are really angry for mismanagement of our gross economic

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Prime Minister announced cost cutting on Government expenses days ago. However, his proposal not welcome by People. People described his government as Leaders with the thickest skins on earth. In that page, you can read many opinions said that our economic was mismanaged by previous and current government and they don’t even feel sorry about that. Spend a little bit of your time have a look on those opinions in Malaysiakini. It is free of charge to access that page. (more…)

Charge the police with “reckless action” too

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

What happen nowadays? Upside down almost everything in Malaysia.

BMC assault victim charged with ‘reckless driving’
Andrew Ong | Jun 10, 08 11:11am

updated 2.04pm If found guilty, mechanic Chang faces a mandatory jail sentence of up to five years as well as a fine of between RM5,000 and RM15,000.

Besides, learned this regarding the (more…)

The message already sent unless you refuse to listen.

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Fuel price hiked sky-high, price of daily goods are expected to be hiked too, but, they spend money again for celebrating BN won the GE in Malacca . As the result…. I believe the message was strongly sent to them. Don’t blame the organize committee, in fact, you should not spending this amount of money for this kind of dinner. (more…)

Entertainment allowances cut

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Now only I know how much entertainment allowances they have monthly. 8O

PM makes RM2 bil cost cuts after fuel hike
Chan Kok Leong | Jun 9, 08 7:07pm

breaking news updated 7.53pm Among the new measures, the paid holidays of ministers and their families will now be restricted to Asean and local destinations.

政府实行撙节政策每年省20亿 削部长津贴10%限东南亚度假
王德齐 | 6月9日 傍晚7点49分

更新 撙节措施包括削减正副部长娱乐津贴10%,官员出国团能免则免。冻结聘请新的非要职公务员,官方庆典从简,展延购买新资产和禁止装修.

Monthly allowances of PM, DPM, Ministers and Deputy Minister as showed in the chart below.
entertainment allowances
Picture adapted from Malaysiakini.

Base on the chart above, we can know the annual entertainment allowance (before 10% cut) of

~ Prime Minister is RM226,380
~ Deputy PM is RM180,180
~ Minister is RM147,840 (how many Ministers we have in our Government?)
~ Deputy Minister is RM72,000(how many Deputy Ministers we have in our Government?) (more…)

How many Malaysians will drive less than 50km daily?

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I really can’t agree with his theory. His “brilliant” theory may partially works in Penang island however not everywhere in Malaysia. This also showed that he is not “turun padang” to listen or look the reality.

每天车程50公里以下车主‧625元回扣可抵消油价涨幅
要闻 2008-06-08 20:50

(吉隆坡)第二財长丹斯里诺莫哈末表示,对每天使用车程不超过50公里的小型轿车车主来说,政府给予他们每年625令吉的现金回扣,足以抵消油价调高对他们造成的衝击。 他说,根据一名车主每日行驶车程不超过50公里来计算,每个月的油费將增加60令吉,加上油价在之前两个月並未调整,因而每个月62令吉的回扣,正好让车主不受油价调高所影响。

Car owners who drive 50km and below per day ‧ RM625 rebate will offset the oil prices hiked.

(Kuala Lumpur) Second Finance Minister Mohamed said that the small car owners with daily use of the journey not over 50 km, the annual cash rebate of 625 ringgit given by the Government is enough to offset the impact of the fuel price hiked to them.

He said, according to a daily travelling by car owners not to over 50 kilometers, the monthly fuel fee will increase by 60 ringgit, besides, the fuel prices in the last two months did not adjust, therefore, rebate of 62 ringgit for every month let the owners are not affected by the increase in fuel prices.

Translated by Google Translate. (more…)

How much you pay extra after fuel price hiked?

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

With the new price of fuel and rebate RM625 [fuel rebate a one-off (beware, it is important to understand this)] was announced by our PM, people start to calculate how much they need to spend extra for the fuel for next 12 months. I came to across to this (more…)

After price of fuel hiked

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Government said continuous subsidy in petrol will make our nation facing financial problems. Not only petrol, government also giving subsidy to many daily goods. Main problem here is people misused this benefit. People smuggle those subsidized to other country to make profit from them.

Well, regarding this (more…)

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