(We don’t have money falling out from the sky for very personal whims and fancy projects – a fact some in Malaysia have yet to realize. Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels)
No end for short-sighted, money-wasting people in Malaysia.
Read More »Economy 101: Little Effect of Taxpayer Money On Fancy Projects
(The very little money that we earn should be spent only on the essential items but their prices must be reasonable. The same goes for the Government who has access to limited taxpayers money. It should be spent on development and not on some fancy projects or subsidies. Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels)
Read More »Economy 101: The Small RM0.05 Increase Of Essential Good Price
(When it comes to enforcement agencies, we have the means to start things like the ability to issue summons but we sometimes lack the means to end things. We lack the enforcement of the law. Photo by Erik Mclean from Pexels)
Read More »Enforcement 101: Discounting Outstanding Summons Part 2
(The strategic role of a submarine to the nation’s maritime defence cannot be ignored but what makes it stink is the way these submarines were purchased and maintained. Image source: Flickr / US Navy)
Read More »Military 101: Did We End Up With Faulty White Elephant Submarines?
You have made a reservation and booked the exact seats for your family but when you reach the place, you found others sitting down at the reserved place. Does it sound familiar? Image source: Raw Pixel on Pexel.com)
Read More »Personal 101: It’s My Reserved Seat! Someone Took It!!
(This is how some relatives see my car at certain times – Sometimes I wish I could shout “I am not driving bus lah!”. Image source: SOS SAHEL)
A couple of days ago, my car suspensions took a heavy pounding – all because my mom decided to be very generous.
We were planning to go to the temple – me, my wife, the “big boss”, of course, and my mom. We decided to take my wife’s nimble Viva since it is just nice for the 4 of us (considering the big boss is no longer the small baby that everyone perceives him to be. He needs his space and his MP3s).
Read More »Know Your Car Basics 101: Car, Not Bus – Handling Suspensions
(We need more policemen on the road to catch and summon road offenders. But what’s the point of giving the road offenders summons when at the end of the day, it is not enforced and the summons ends up nothing but waste papers? Photo by Kindel Media from Pexels)
Read More »Enforcement 101: Discounting Outstanding Summons Part 1
(The old palace is already looking majestic and we have already spent millions on it but we went ahead to construct a new palace. We end up looking like dungus but what the heck, we been in that situation before. The new palace looks good on paper but the volume of abuse and mismanagement of funds to build it makes the whole affair end up looking too ugly. Image source: Tok Ey Ai)
Read More »Malaysia 101: When Taxpayers’ Money Hits The Palace’s Fan
(Polite customer – does it sounds familiar? Cartoon source: http://www.whalecottage.com)
I still recall stand-up comedian Kumar’s joke – when he walked into a high-class boutique, the salesgirl looked at him from head to toe with a puzzled face that asked: “do you have money to buy things?”
He, of course, got annoyed with the treatment that he got from the salesgirl that he proceeded to buy something very expensive and paid for it with coins.
(How often you have impatient & impolite people behind the counter treating you like you owe them something?)
Just the other day, I watched the movie “Invictus” and noticed that Nelson Mandela (excellently acted by Morgan Freeman) was a very polite man. He was courteous and well mannered even to his “ex-enemies”.
In case you missed Invictus, the movie was about a leader who was trying to get his country united – bringing people from various background, culture and race as one nation (this movie should be watched by some so-called leaders in Malaysia – they can learn a thing or two if their ego is not bigger than their brain) through the game of rugby (played by a majority white).
(The movie poster looks impressive and the trailer somehow entices us to go to the cinema and get the whole “picture” but that is about it. Poster source: Wikipedia)
This has to be one of the most anticipated Tamil movies for the year 2010 but there is a big problem.
Read More »Tamil Movie Review: Usual Confusing Mani Ratnam’s Raavanan 2010
(Steve Job’s same style of shirt, jeans and shoes over the years – this looks like a series too. Image source: Pinterest)