The sabotage has begun (it started a long time ago)

Recently there was a Hindu temple being demolished somewhere in Ampang. You have my deepest sympathies Hindu friends.

You may wonder why the hell was the temple demolished even after the Selangor state government have expressed clearly that no temples should be demolished?

Pure and simple. It is to sabotage the PR's state government. The sabotage actually started right after the general election. Most of the PR's state will get little funding from the federal government. All the projects that was promised before the election was subsequently cancelled.

The federal government may think that they are smart by sabotaging all the PR's state but in fact they are killing themselves and Malaysia. Why can't they realize that everyone wants a fair living opportunity? Those in the federal government only knows how to protect themselves and their pockets. Anything else is out of question.

Selangor and Penang is the most industrialised state in Malaysia. They bring in income to the country. So why don't they get the fruits of their labour? They deserve it.

Perhaps it is time to impose a state tax where state can collect tax via other method such as a small tax on goods sold in the state. That way, the state can generate its own income and does not have to rely solely on the childish federal government. I am no lawyer but I think it can be done. Certain state in US impose state tax such as California. That is why until today, Calfornia is still a rich state with or without federal funding.

Sure the BN people will say that PR government cannot govern after a state tax is imposed, but it is all BN's fault right?

If the sabotage continues, then there will be no more Malaysia. More temples will be demolished, more projects will be stalled or canceled and the people are going to suffer.

I am not Stupid!

I think this title is quite suitable for all Malaysians. Every watched the movie? It was done by Singapore highlighting their interesting "kiasu" society.

How is this applied to us here? Well for starters, we are being hoodwinked by the recent ISA arrest. While everyone is focusing on the ISA arrest, we have forgotten the fundamental problems that is already at our doorstep.

With all the hoo har on the ISA being used, have we forgotten that the KLSE is dropping like a dead weight into the sea? On January the KLSE was around 1400 and even peaked to 1500. After 9 months only, it dropped from 1500 to barely more than 1000. A huge 30%+ drop.

People may say, it is the market. Everything is not doing well right now so that is normal. Yes. This is "normal" but why can't we be abnormal? Why can't the KLSE stand up against the market and be strong despite everything that is going on? A drop if 10-15% would definitely be better than 30%+.

A lot of investors are pulling out and our dear government is still in denial saying that Malaysia is still strong economically. What a load of cow dung! If Malaysia is doing well and have a future potential, why are investors pulling out? Bank Negara's statistic for August 15-29 stated that USD 1.1 Billion funds was pulled out of Malaysia. Tell me if this shows Malaysia to be an attractive investment destination.

Oh yes, someone forgot to lower the price of petrol as well. While the price of oil per barrel is going down, the price we pay at the pump is still the same. The goverment is busy making money right under our noses now that the price of oil per barrel is around USD 108-110. You can follow the calculations from my previous blogs.

And there is the "Send them to Taiwan for Holiday" project to prevent Anwar's September 16 takeover. Maybe they even asked a bomoh to make sure that there is a huricane going through Taiwan right now just to make sure that they cannot leave Taiwan too soon.

And the "Sodomy Act 2" that is really being silly. Who in the right mind would believe it? I really don't know who is the target audience.

For those detained under ISA, you have my sympathies. I really do not understand what kind of national threat you are. You're neither armed terrorist or even a terrorist mastermind. Does any of the guys arrested under ISA have link to underground arms or planning to sieze the government by blowing things to kindom come? I doubt so.

The government must not think that everyone are as stupid as they are.

I am not stupid!

We are not stupid!

We are being cheated again

For those of you who did not read my blog on how much money the government have already got in their pocket for not reducing the price of petrol, please read my previous blog.

Now again the government is taking the people as a fool. The current price of oil per barrel is steady around USD 110.00 going by the figure from Nymex.

Simple arithmetic again is applied where previously petrol price was RM 2.70 plus subsidy 0.30 comes to RM 3.00. At that time the price of petrol was USD 140 and now it is USD 110 which has USD 30.00 difference. This comes to a difference of 21% rounded down. Hence the current price of petrol should be RM 2.35 rounded down. Current petrol price is RM 2.55 so there is a difference of RM0.20. Yes the government is making money now not subsidizing fuel anymore.

We use 36,573,000 liters of petrol per day. So one day the government is making 36,573,000 x 0.20 = RM 7,314,600 a day. For convenience sake, make the figure RM 7.3 million. It will be 28 more days till the end of the month and assuming that the petrol price is stable the government will be making approximately RM 204.4 million.

If you were to follow my previous calculation, the government made RM100.8 million from mid August till before the petrol price was announced to be lower. Then after it is lowered, they are still making RM 2.9 million a day until yesterday. There were 11 days since then so the total is RM 31.9 million.

The the grand total on the money that the government is making is 204.4 + 100.8 + 31.9 = RM 337.1 million.

Not bad for not doing anything for 1 and a half month.

Why don't you be the judge?

I will have more to come as the calculation of the budget does not seem to be correct. (Surprised?)

Silly TV shows creates silly minds

I know there has been a lot of hoo har on the recent guy who talks about squatters. May he rot in pieces. Too many people have written on that so I will not waste my time on this.

Let us talk about something else. Ever wonder why the minds of the newer generation does not seem to work properly these days?

You can blame it on the TV shows on our television. Recently there are more and more silly TV shows appearing on our TV screen. Those folks who have money to pay for Astro (there seems to be no other alternative to this) are lucky since they are not bombarded with clueless half-baked TV shows.

Forget about RTM. They used to be full of good shows in the 80's and slowly became a degenerated old man who does not seem to know what kind of shows to show anymore. There is no focus at all. The Olympic coverage was poor beyond recognition. "Majulah Sukan untuk Negara" was constantly uttered by the commentator and yet we are watching half hearted effort to show Malaysians what is sports. No wonder we cannot get a gold medal. There is no effort to even promote sports by our local television.

Also all those silly local TV shows that are now appearing on prime time (e.g. from 8.30 pm onwards) by RTM is rather lame. We get sub standard local concerts that I will not consider entertainment but rather a pain to my ears and eyes. Through the years, RTM1 lost focus on what they wanted to show and so did RTM 2. That is why we get youngsters these days "lepak" here and there because they have lost focus. My theory is these two are related.

How about TV3, NTV7, 8TV and TV9? I think these channels are starting to lose their focus too. We get some really silly local TV dramas lately. Some of them are pretty good if there were collaboration from oversea production companies but a number of them are just pile of rubbish.

Recently, there was the Ampang Medical. Sigh. There have been many many many great medical series from US such as ER and Grey's Anatomy to name a few. It is great for the Malaysian production house to come up with a local flavour but do you have to copy the whole scenario and on top of that based the whole series on Grey's Anatomy? Where is the brain? Where is the creativity? If I were to do it, I would have focussed more on medical terms and symptoms of diseases. That way, we can educate the general public on health. Of course you can thrown in some medical love story and drama along the way but the focus is on basic medical knowledge. So at least it is educational and entertaining at the same time. But this show is plain absurb. So if the producers are reading, please take it off air and not waste time.

Then there are some really silly game shows like 1,2 Jus and Double Triple or Nothing to name is few is totally crap. The prize is crap, the host is crap and the whole execution is crap. It could have been better executed. It looks like the people in the game show is having all the fun but the fun could not be translated to the viewers. Some other game shows like Kan Cheong Kitchen and Go Go Go is better but the execution could be further improved. These are some great effort. By the way, I have given up on RTM and have not watched any of their shows for a long time now.

Let us look at some English shows and movies. Hmmm they do no really exist until after 10.30pm. Sigh, everyone have to stay up late sometimes just to catch a good movie. No wonder the standard of English in Malaysia is not up to part these days.

Basically, our local TV shows have not shown any improvement in the last few decades. Local drama still full of actress with extremely thick make-ups and scripts are all full of nonesense. Of course there are some improvements with some dramas. But most of the game shows usually will leave a bad aftertaste if you watch if for too long. No wonder pirated DVD industry is flourishing in Malaysia. And recently the TV shows are not really balanced. A lot of bad Malay drama is being showed at prime time but all the great English dramas and movies are all pushed to the late hours. It looks like there is not much of a Hindi or Tamil shows until recently some were shown in TV9.

As a multicultural country, I would appreciate some balance. I prefer some good quality drama to watch not just simply throw them on the TV because you need to get some producers or directors make a living. Make them really earn a living not just put simply anything on the TV. If you put silly shows, you get silly people.

Of course there are other additional contribution but all of you should know that by now.