February...

Kejap jer dah masuk bulan dua. Sebelum apa2, aku ingin mengucapkan Selamat Tahun Baru Cina kepada member2 yg berbangsa Cina. Dah lama tak menjenguk korang. I wonder if they still remember me?

I just got the news from PTPTN that I would be required to pay the full amount for my loans as the result of my negligence of not starting to payback when required. In my defense, when the letter came I was already changed my address to Salak Tinggi area while in PTPTN record I was still living in Subang Jaya. Well the blame came back to me of why did I not changed my address when I should be? OK, the blame gets back to me, yup :( Apa2 pon, rasanya aku kena buat personal loan untuk bayar balik but fortunately I only borrowed less than RM10K so it shouldn't be that much of a burden. Time to start playing with the calculator...

Kecoh sekarang dengan cerita panjenayah mati di dalam lokap. As I was concerned with that recent development, I really felt that it was an unnecessary tantrum that the Indian community is throwing over the death of a single criminal in custody. As the authority are still investigating the death, I really hope that everybody keep their emotions in check and wait for the outcome. I believe our police and the justice system is fair, the individuals who was responsible for his death (if it is proven that he's death was from abuse) will be brought before a judge and prosecute. And after all, other races has also experienced death in lock ups but takde pulak sesapa buat bising. Please, you all are not helping with the racial strain we are experiencing these few years.

I thought with my majority of siblings are on the feminine side, I should be able to understand women in-depth, it seems that I indeed lack that understanding. Now I'm in some kind of confused and confounded state and the only thing that I can do is...well, go with the flow? Ah, I don't even know what to do. Women are indeed creatures from Venus. To yours truly, I sebenarnya still tengah keliru nih. Are you interested or are you not? Or I got excited too early? Are you really mad (becoz of that incident) and in a way; "punishing" me by this act of cold shouldering and waiting for me to pujuk? I must confess here that I am bad, truly bad in appeasing angry souls, especially women. So please tell me something becoz I really, really don't have the slightest idea and this guessing game is taking its toll on me...penat siot...

Jem, jem, jem, trafic jams...

Mengalami jem yang agak teruk dalam perjalanan balik tadi (keluar dari tempat kerja pukul 6 sampai rumah 8 pm). Ya, kepada sesiapa yang hendak tahu, aku selalu menggunakan Elite Highway pergi dan balik dari kerja. Dari Putrajaya > Elite Highway > Tol Ebor Selatan (sebelum ni dikenali sebagai Tol Batu 3 sebab keluar dekat kawasan Batu 3) > Federal Highway > Shah Alam (melalui overbridge sebelah SACC). Dari Shah Alam pula, keluar dari Bangunan SUK ke either roundabout dekat Kelab Shah Alam atau overbridge sebelah SACC > Federal Highway > overbridge naik ke Batu 3 > Elite Highway (sekali lagi melalui Tol Ebor Selatan) > Putrajaya. So, anyone who bears a grudge with me can wait in ambush with a sniper rifle near those routes or just plant a remote IED :P.

Anyway, just wandering. Why is it every rainy days, there is always traffic jams? Pelik dan ajaib aku. Not to mention countless accidents and wait, this is a good one; kereta rosak! Fine, tak pelik bila tengah-tengah hujan tapi kenapa dekat traffic light atau simpang-simpang or paling syok, jalan 2 lane atau 1 lane. Peh, nikmat menunggu jem reda dalam kereta sambil pasang MP3 kuat-kuat. Face it, bila lagi selalu kita dapat meluangkan masa bersendirian dalam kereta dengan kaki sakit menekan pedal sambil ditemani lagu-lagu yang berulang-ulang atau selection lagu-lagu yang tiba-tiba menjadi bosan di stesen radio? Bila lagi? Betul tak?

I don't understand Malaysian drivers. We speed up when required to be slow and slowed down when speediness is important. We Malaysians are truly gifted with the ability to interpret something simple into a reverse psychological complicated matters. If this is a sign of mutation, then I hope that my not yet manifested power is the ability to understand women better :D.

To all, drive carefully this raining season ok?

Anwar Ibrahim = Bulls**tter. Period.

26-9-13-1

Sept 23 deadline for 'showdown'

KUALA LUMPUR: With his promise to form a new government on Sept 16 broken, opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim now wants Parliament to meet within five days for a vote of no confidence.

Anwar yesterday called on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to convene an emergency session of Parliament by Sept 23.

Calling it the "final showdown", he said it would allow him to prove, once and for all, that the opposition had the support of more than 31 MPs from BN to make up the minimum 112 seats needed for a majority and to form the new government.

"We have told him (Abdullah) that we have the numbers. If he does not believe me, then convene an emergency sitting," Anwar said at the Parti Keadilan Rakyat headquarters.

Abdullah had challenged him to name the BN MPs who had purportedly agreed to cross over to Pakatan Rakyat by Malaysia Day.
When Sept 16 passed without incident, Anwar still insisted he had the required number of BN defectors to topple the government and said he was holding off because he wanted a "smooth transition".

He has, so far, not named a single one of them. Now he is playing for time by demanding a meeting of Parliament to table a motion of no confidence against Abdullah, which is certain to be turned down.

He said a letter signed by him, the DAP's Lim Kit Siang and Pas president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, had been sent to the prime minister to request him to convene Parliament by next Tuesday.

Asked why the PR alliance could not wait until Oct 13 when Parliament reconvenes, he said:

"State of flux, volatility, ISA arrests, economic collapse, switching cabinet portfolios midstream, uncertainty in Umno supreme council meetings. How long can you wait?"

He claimed he had met fund managers in the region, representing over US$1 trillion (RM3.4 trillion) in capital, who were ready to invest in the country when the Pakatan Rakyat took over the government.

-Sept 23 Deadline for "showdown", New Straits Times, 20 September 2008

Comments:

What a bullshit. Enough of this already. If the rakyat still fall for his tricks after the 16 September furor, then I am indeed worried about our political situation. Please, I beg you all. Don't be so gullible as to be tricked again by this irresponsible man.

Permatang Pauh aftermath...

26-9-13-1
It is as the Blues Gang song - Apo nak dikato. Anwar dah menang pilihanraya kecil Permatang Pauh. But it was as predicted, he will win with plus-minus the same majority as his wife won early this year. Kepada semua penyokong BN; sabarlah. Perjuangan memang macam ni. Benda yang susah nak dapat, bila dah dapat dan kenang-kenang balik, akan terasa lebih manis. Aku percaya kita akan sapu bersih semua kerusi DUN dengan Parlimen pada PRU-13 jika kena cara. Yang penting, jangan cepat mengaku kalah.

Which reminds me, this morning a friend send me this text sms:

"Najib/albar/ariffshah/umno tu lembu ke? =p"

Which I replied:

"Entah? Naper pulak?"

And of course, he did not replied. This my friend, is the mentality of a typical, die-hard and extremist PKR fan. Come on lah dude, umur ko dah 26. Mature la skit kalo nak berpolitik pon. Name callings are for kids. Masa bebudak dulu bole ler. Sekarang dah tua, buat ler cara orang nak berfamili dah :P. Anyway my prayers are with him so that one day he will see the errors of his way.

Updates: 26/8/2008

26-9-13-1
Whew. I'm still reeling from the event that inspired Entahlah dude and Entahlah dude strikes back (which by the way, still happening as we speak or in this case; write and read :)). But, whatever it is: when the going gets tough, the tough gets going. Accuse me of being reading too much manga lately, but I'm going to take that all with a smile and stubbornness that knows no borders, like Naruto or Luffy from One Piece :P. I will keep trying :)

Lets leave Loveland for the moment and switch back to Malaysian politics. Today, there will be the vote for Permatang Pauh by election. Anwar vs Arif. And another contender but he's more like a small fish. Can be ignored I suppose? As you read from newspapers, blogs, hearsay and all, this is a clear David versus Goliath fights. Anwar's wife, Azizah won the constituent last election, with a majority of 13,000++ votes against her rival. Naturally, this constituent was Anwar's stronghold when he was in UMNO so it is understandable that his wife can hold on for more than 10 years. So Arif and the BN machineries will have a tough fight ahead of him and I wish him a lot of luck. Make us proud old boy :)

So we got another week to Ramadan; the fasting month. The hunger, the thirst, the traffic jams when all are rushing to go back home early to prepare for open-fast, the congested Pasar Ramadans, the tarawikh prayers nightly with family and the morehs after tarawikh. Yup, I'm starting to enjoy Ramadan more than Eid celebration, especially when the latter involves giving money instead of being at the receiving end. Sigh. This happens when you are in the working world; all grown up. Kids, don't grow up please. Or at least grow up slowly. Life is simpler when you are just a kid...

Updates: 26/7/2008

ZIMA
Politically all is quiet for now. Except for the "alternative newspapers and web portals" (read: slander news; take it or leave it :p) the front page of all major newspaper in Malaysia seems to revert back to news before the Anwar Sodomy Investigations with the actual investigation is still going on but that seems not to garner the attention of newsmen all over the country (well, not yet anyway). Either its the calm before the storm or the storm is in its calm mode, as long as the Altantuyaa and Anwar cases haven't been resolved it is going to brew for quite a while.

Meanwhile day by day the Bar Council seems to shed its neutrality and going on along the opposition's highway. One advise to them: Members that have political leanings to either side should stop being a member and join the political parties. I don't understand much but the impression seems to be that the Bar Council should be neutral as it represents the lawyers all over and lawyers shouldn't take sides professionally accept then they are involved in their cases. I don't care if in personal they favor one political party or another, but if you are in your lawyer professionalism mode, please refrain from issuing political statements. It's misleading and give all lawyers bad impression.

For fuel users out there, this might be a good news: Hydrofuel. From what I've read and heard, the hydrofuel concept is the addition of water in fuel to assist in more efficient burning. Using a powerful sonic wave emitter, water is split to it's molecular level ie. hydrogen and oxygen which will then be used in the combustion process. It is touted to save fuel consumption by 50%. Because it is still new and the explanation is still unclear (or I haven't read as much as I thought :P) for starters have a look at the company's website that's developing the system in Malaysia: Hydrogen Fuel Industries (M)

All and all everything seems to be quite so far, but you'll never know...Just wait and see :)...

Fuel...

Fuel. My first posting in this brand new blog and I write about fuel. These few days fuel is a hot topics for Malaysian. No need to guess, but for the uninitiated, fuel price in Malaysia has gone up (well, well, what a surprise! Says them in Singapore, Thailand and a few others moderately and modern nations). From RM1.92 to RM2.70++. People will compare me with a broken record for saying this but...the price is still low people! But first, for those using vulgar words cursing me when they read this posting by this part, well, the same vulgar words to you back. I don't force you to read my blog posts so if you can't use the brain-containing-skull God has given you to think like a scholar and a gentleman, the Home browser button is up there; give it a push and it will magically take you away from this seems-to-be-offensive-blog-to-you.

Ok, continuing to fuel, I have friends who drives a smaller engine capacity car than me and yet cursing and bitching like there's no tomorrow. Funny thing that they seems to earn a lot more than me. Hmmm...Anyway, for them there is one advice from this humble person to them: "Start planning on buying an electric car or at least a hybrid ones". Fuel price is rising and looking at the depleting oil reserves, it will never go down. Jangan ler nak bermimpi kalo tukar government bole turunkan harga minyak. What do you expect? That they will give the first 20 litre of fuel for free every month? In your dreams, thank you.

So, instead of screaming vulgarity to those who likes to, I purpose some..ah...solutions for those who feels that the increase of fuel price has taken quite a toll on their pockets, wallets or purses. (Or you can be cool like me, absorb the hikes and still pay my study loans, give some to my mum, divide some for savings, spend some on a shopping and even go out once a week for movies or fooling around :P) Ok, here goes:

1) Be creative, go for public transports. It's a little hard to swallow but people who uses public transports everyday are some of the most creative and resourceful that I've met during my era of using buses and trains to work. They can predict accurately which buses or trains arrives at what time (given that the current state of public transport services in Malaysia), take an alternative route and still arrives at places of destination at the same time using other routes, sleep soundly and arrived fresh even when its a 5 minutes journey ride. Not to mention its good for you who doesn't exercise much; all the walking and pushing is good workout plus you can train to blunt out your smelling senses, especially if there's any foreigners who smelt a little on the strong side in a packed buses/trains on a hot, humid day. And another plus side to those who feels strongly about the environment; types who likes to go green, rejoice, for that you have contribute less carbon monoxides by going for public transport. And not to mention its much, much more cheaper plus you get to have your own driver; albeit sharing him/her with all who rides with you :)

2) For those of you stubborns and can still can take the hikes with head held high, one advice: Don't be a show offs. Showing off on roads has more bad to it than good. It's dangerous, people will definitely won't be impress by your antics, you will be looked down upon and it takes toll on your fuel. Showing off means pressing the accelerator and pressing it harder means more fuel be needed to power up your car quickly and more fuel means more money down the drain. Why can't everyone drive gently without showing off? At least do that on a freeway or get involved in motor racing, much more satisfying or at least be a gamer, spend a little on good gaming rig complete with racing game accessories and you will have a great time showing off, in a game that is highly competitive and driven by showing off, but you won't offend people, at least not on the road :)

3) Change to a smaller engine capacity car. I would suggest a Perodua Kelisa but because they only got second hands of that car now, try your luck on Myvi or Savvy. Average performance cars, quite comfy not to mention spacious and it saves fuel. Imagine spending below RM70 a week on fuel to and back from work. And please practice point number 2 while you are at it. Tak guna jugak kalo keter jenis save fuel tapi cara pemanduan out...Support lar kereta tempatan dey! :P

So folks, thats some of the alternatives that I can think off for you to save fuel during this hard times. Also I would like to propose to the government to implement fuel subsidy by differentiating salaries so that people (notice that I use the word people humbly, without any political motives :P) will feel not feel the burden too much and blame the government less than before. Maybe its hard to implement for a start but later it will be very beneficial as do all good things tend to be...Happy Driving...and refuelling...