CHERAS BARRIER

The barrier is again rebuilt to prevent the Cheras residence to access the Cheras-Kajang highway.
The reason is to prevent motorists from accessing to the highway without paying. Grand Saga is the the concessionaire to this highway.

For the past month, this barrier was consistently torn down by the residence there, but this time around, they met with a group, armed with sticks and are prepared for physical confrontation with the Cheras residence who dare to remove the barrier.

Though I do not fully understand the whole story and whether the concessionaire has the right to put up the barrier, but from the mainstream media reporting so far, something is very wrong.

If there is law and order in Malaysia, there is no need to resort to gangsterism. This group of gangsters, who threaten to beat up those who dare to remove the barrier, cannot be acting on their own. They must have been paid for ‘protection’.

Now, something is very wrong, if this kind of action is condone by the government. If not, then Grand Saga is not the right type of company for the government to deal with, for the interest of the Rakyat and do not talk about the mandate you had, and that the majority are with you!
Why is there such a need to have the gangsters around if we have our security force to maintain the law & order.

These gangsters should be rounded up and slapped with deterrents, we cannot allow such behaviour to perpetuate and there is no reason that these gangsters cannot be identified.

According to the mainstream media, a court order was obtained and that the concessionaire has the right to erect the barrier. It was later reported, that FRU arrived and used water cannon to disperse the crowd.

Common sense again, tells me something is very wrong here. You have this road from Cheras connecting to the Cheras-Kajang highway. How did this come about in the first place?
If the concessionaire is building a paid highway, why link it to a public road. The public road at this junction must have led to somewhere before or was part of the public road turned into a paid highway by the concessionaire by linking their portion to it? Why should the motorists pay, if they were using what was supposed to be the route they had enjoyed before, built by public funds.

We have too many dishonest businessmen around, proposing grand schemes for the interest of Malaysians and our government should not be part of it.

MALAYSIA CRUDE SITUATION

It is baffling to any Malaysian, whoever it is, with a bit of brain, to analyse as to what were said recently by our ‘smart’ Deputy Prime Minister.
He said, the price of crude had risen to the level that it is imperative for us to rethink on the subsidy, as it had eroded into our development expenditure. Meaning the price of petrol, diesel & gas have to be increased, otherwise future development, immediate or otherwise has to be put on hold.

Is there any logic in this? Malaysia is a net exporter of crude & gas. Would she rather want a lower international price for such product?
I would have thought the higher it goes the better, rather than the reverse. Don’t you think so? In fact the higher the price, the more we would have, in net revenue, or we can only count to 10. This would be the bonanza, we all have been hoping for and the funds for development should be over-flowing.
With this windfall, we should be able to control inflation and depreciation of our ringgit, to such time until the world economy stabilises and finds its balance, which is, the country made poorer should not be artificially made or seemed to be rich and vice versa.

What the DPM proposed or intended to do, mounts to stealing from those who had been saving the little bit of extra cash, over the years, for the rainy day or their intended purposes. Whatever money that was saved for children education, health care or retirement would not be enough, in time to come.
I, for one, do not wish to see those mega projects if my very own survival is in jeopardy.
To encourage inflation in Malaysia, while we still have the ability to avoid it is more than seditious, it is criminal!!!

MASSA - WHAT A PRICK

Have you ever noticed that should Raikkenon qualify behind Massa, you can be sure that he will lose at least one position into the first corner of the race, more so if Hamilton is in the vicinity.
However, if the opposite were to happen, Massa will gain at least a position to the first corner. Funny is it not? Not so if you were observant enough.

It is the attitude of Massa that caused such to happen, he is more interested in fighting Raikkenon than helping the Ferrari team to have a comfortable run to the finish. He will pay more attention to Raikkenon and make sure that he does not pass him and ignore the rest, in other words, he is not a team player but just wants to spoil his teammate run of success.

Massa could be a good driver, but his attitude and body language leave much to be desired. Just look at his face when he lost to his teammate, even if he came in 2nd, he seemed happier to be in lower positions, as long as he is in front of his teammate, what a little prick!

Ferrari should get rid of Massa before more damage is done to the team, he is there to sabotage the team and ends up helping specifically the McLaren.
You will notice also that he makes sure credit is given to him should he contribute any success to the team.

The last GP in Monte Carlo is a farce, there must be proper rules, should protests be made, it must be done immediately and not in the session that immediately follows the Safety Car Period. This mounts to cheating, the protest would have little effect if a comfortable margin had been built up but to initiate the protest immediately after Safety Car Period, the effect can be profound and it is frustrating to see the sport is been abused this way.

SABAH LAWMAKERS AGAINST ROYAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY

Are Sabah Lawmakers Like This Sign; JUST EXTRAS!!!

As a residence of Sabah, you have to feel frustrated and disappointed with Sabah lawmakers, who time and again recently, voiced the hot topic of illegal immigrants in Sabah obtaining citizenship through the backdoor but when it comes to the gist of it, they rejected the proposal.
We can understand if not all of them are in favour of this, because some had probably benefited from it and perhaps financially as well.
But the proposal was dismissed without protest from all the 25 lawmakers from Sabah, are disappointing and downright disgusting.

This was not a problem that had arisen recently; it had been with us for the past 40 years and becoming more severe in the past 15 years.
The backbencher chairman from Sabah said, they do not need the opposition to help them and are capable in handling it themselves. As Sabahans, they are the aggrieved party, affected more by it and should be more concerned and no need for the opposition to interfere and help.
Do they really? Sabah has only 25 parliamentarians out of the 222 in total and past records showed that the central government had always not been keen in solving this issue.
For all you know, the suggestion of increasing Malaysia population to 60 million during Mahathirian period had Sabah in its design.
I do not think pride has anything to do in this non-supportive approach to the opposition proposal, more of the benefits that local politicians had benefited from this fiasco.

Sabah had a turbulent history and who would have remembered what had happened 40 years ago during USNO period.
Sabah politicians are still handling it the same way their forefathers did, grab as much as you can, my eyes no see the future and who is going to remember anyway.

Sabah does need a higher population in order to be progressive and competitive, having it through the natural process would be slow, but Sabah needs quality migrants, not the illegal ones that come to commit crime and rape your daughters. We already had plenty of them.

We just have to resign to the sad fact that we are unlikely to get any help from those who are involved in this grand scheme.
Shame on you, Sabah lawmakers, you don’t represent Sabah at all, bloody jerks. And it is all a mistake.
Even west Malaysia umno members had the guts to condemn PM, where are your guts just to help the Sabahans.

Sabah needs lots of divine interventions.

TRANSPARENCY

Transparency is something Malaysia lacks.
Sadly, it is not part of our culture, we tend to hide behind our mistakes, be it natural or by design, this unfortunate guilt snowballs to our own detriment.

Wenchuan earthquake struck Sichuan province at 14:28 hours on 12th May 2008,
China got into action, letting the world know the extent of the calamity, its short comings and measures taken to overcome this.
Such transparency creates a lot of good wills and contributions poured in from both within and outside to a tune of more than 2 billion USD in cash and material aids beside physical aids in the form of rescue and social workers.

An important lesson for all of us to see and follow, we all know where the contributions will go and the authorities assured sympathisers on their efforts.

In Malaysia and Sabah in particular, we have transparency problems with our authorities, be it development work, distribution of social benefits or even on the political scene of Sabah.
This lack of transparency had caused a lot of mistrust, not only towards the authorities but also amongst its people.
Can we afford to allow this dreaded situation to perpetuate? If the local politicians are mindful of this, they should stop the rot, unless they are just another one, the rot, no need to elaborate further.
Proposal to have a Royal Commission to look into Sabah’s illegal migrants and its unnatural population growth is nothing new.
The unlikely resistance, apparently comes from the politicians in power themselves.
This is the very reason why there is no progress on this nagging issue and there will forever be no solution to it.
If we have not awakened to this, just take to the example, what gigantic step the judicial status had taken since the Lingam Royal Commission.

Perhaps it is easier for us to look at something, whereby the local politicians in power can understand and will also benefit. Let us ask for more allocations for Sabah, since this state is contributing more than its share and had been neglected. But if the funds were to filter through so many sieves, the likely outcome in development is very short changed, another bottleneck!

There is so much mistrust, no matter which direction we take, we are viewed with suspicion.
What to do?
May I be crazy enough to suggest that the allocations go direct to Sabah people, not in cash of course, but in the forms of lower taxes, like for clothing, food, cars, whatever taxable materials or income.
This will put more purchasing power back to the locals to stimulate its economy.
This unparallel system with Peninsula Malaysia is possible because of its isolation and would not have cost the central government much because of its relatively small population.

Will our law makers care to propose?

AMERICAN IDOL 2008

If you have been a follower of this program, there should be no doubt on the final outcome.
As predicted, it is David Vs David in the final, but the difference is the other name, Archuleta, a teenager of 17 years old.

Since the selection on the finalist of 12 contestants, there is no doubt in my feeling that Archuleta will eventually be the American Idol 2008. It is not the innocence, likeable, clean cut kid look that popper teens or grandmas will pour their hearts out but more on his unique voice.
Unlike other contestants, his voice is gifted and unlikely to be imitated. He can sing naturally and yet sound very unique and melodious.
Many of us would have noticed and predicted his winning, right from the audition when he sang, HEAVEN by Bryan Adams.
I vote, he is likely to win this on his gifted voice than on the technicality of singing and we can hope that he will improve from strength to strength and entertain us for years to come.

MAS Vs AirAsia - IDRIS JALA Vs TONY FERNANDES

When you have a sore thumb, it always attracts more attention, it is uncomfortable and to say the least a bloody nuisance.
Lately the CEO of Airasia, Malaysia low cost carrier, is behaving like one, accusing its competitor of having unfair advantage and competing squarely on the routes they operate.

Has he lost the sense of competition.

Airasia were given regional domestic monopoly before, it turned out to be in such a mess that they eventually gave up, due to incessant complaint, and handed the job back to MAS. Billions were lost in the short stint by Airasia, lost of regional connectivity affects tourism and business. Air worthy plane were rendered grounded when the responsibility were handed back to MAS. It took MAS more than 6 months to have the system in sync again.
Unlike MAS, there were nothing to show that Airasia had intended for a long haul in regional domestic business but only to make a fast buck.
MAS, now have make plans for new crafts to be in service and complaints are virtually a thing of the past, the system is working like clockwork.

Accusation/campaign of late, sound more like personal attack on MAS CEO, rather than on why Airasia gives better value to its customers.
Idris Jala, CEO of MAS, in my opinion is no ordinary corporate mastermind. He has been able to turn MAS (a GLC) around and at a surprisingly short period of time. Not many government appointed employee in government-linked-companies (glc) have done this and come to think of it, Idris Jala is the only one so far. MAS then, a company that was haemorrhaging and to many, had no chance to recover and best just fold it. But recovered it did, under present CEO guidance, it manages not only to compete internationally but also against LCC and still make exceptional returns to its shareholders.

Airasia is not going to be popular, if they force MAS hands to increase its fare through government intervention.
For the first time in over 40 years of Malaysian history, people are able to enjoy travelling with reasonable comfort, in 3rd class fare. Why the complaint, after all CEO of Airasia said their business had improved since MAS ‘unfair competition’.

When you have politicians butting in, it means complaint has reached them to apply a bit of pressure, failing which will be drastic change and the beginning of a down trend in a competitive atmosphere.
You never want politicians to interfere in any business, especially someone from the transport ministry, which had a record of inefficiency and lopsided decisions. They had just extended PUSPAKOM exclusive monopoly for another 15 years.
We were just about looking forward to a more competitive vehicle inspection services, come 2009, but they just can’t let go this money making machine.

CONSUMERS Vs ONG KEE KEAT