Blatant Bribery for Election

Chinese = FELDA land receiver?!?!?!

Wow...

THat's new...hang on a minute...there's a by electino somewhere at the same time..

let me see...by-election at Machap
Free lands to 50 families at Machap. :)

Nice.

Malaysians cannot have healthy discussion

purely because we re not capable of doing so. Perhaps we are narrow minded, perhaps we value "harmony and peace" a little too much. It's not a wonder that our government further exploits these weaknesses by various laws to silent our dissent.

Why do I make sure a generalized claim?

Ask yourself, when is the last time you (a Malaysian) have a healthy open discussion/debate about anything sensitive? When is the last time we can have a discussion in which one side might concede and says, "yes, you are correct and i was wrong. thanks for informing me?"? or when is the last time us as a nation has an open discussion about taboo issues (islamic state? sex? abortion? racial politic?), as most of the "discussion on these issues" have been polemic one-sided talk during political ceramahs.

No. Us malaysians are just not capable of doing any healthy discussion. For an example how a rational discussion can go into an emotional argument, check out this short post at Education Malaysia's UK vs US: A Different Perspective

Mommy's little pampered kid

This post may not sounds interesting or relevant to those who don't know the story...but i can't just let it go without writing note about it. I dedicate this piece to those little pampered kids out there. :)

Mommy's little pampered kids

One day from now, you may
walk away,
To a distance land, seeking
for recognition,
in guise of knowledge),
Travel the sea, venture
the sky,
My dear little kid, I wish
I am there with you.

Mommy worries everyday,
whether you get fed, or
you get prep'ed,
for the world out there,
is vastly difference from
our little Malaysia,
My dear little kid, I wish
you will see my anxiety.


You will see strange men
and women,
Sleeping together,
eating together,
strange as it can be,
that's normal, my dear little kid,
if by chance, you re upset
or offended,
Rest assured, and Mommy shall
be there for you,
my dear little kid.
(or at least the minister will!)

Economics Ignorance of Malaysians?

Without knowledge, there will be no freedom. For one's that doesn't know the value of freedom, will never truly appreciate it.



Often a times, when i read current affairs news related from Malaysia, that has slight relevant to the economics of the country, somehow, I got the feeling that Malaysian public is generally economically-ignorance. That is to put it kindly. I would like to say our general public (and the politicians!) are absolutely stupid and retarded in terms of basic economics.

An easy example is the shortage crisis of essential items during festive seasons. By imposing a ceiling price on many essential items such as sugar and meat, the government effectively limits the economics incentive for the supplies to import more of these items. Consequently, we ALWAYS, i repeat, ALWAYS encounter a shortage in the supplies of these so-called controlled items. While it's important to ensure that the suppliers and retailers didn't take advantage of the consumers, we really ought to let the market to price itself.

Ohter notable examples, which I don't have time to describe in details are:

a) existence of monopolistic firms (e.g. indah waters?, syabas? tenaga? tv3?)
b) conflict of interest of government controlled "privatised" companies
c) level of involvement of the state in supposedly private investments (thru khazanah, epf, tabung haji etc).
d) lack of market mechanism and the presence of market failure in many areas.

Well, recently, a blogger-businessman turned politician, Tony organized a Coffee Talk session , which focus is to clarify basic economics issues to the general public. Hopefully more of these sessions will be held, and perhaps someday, the education ministry will engligthen itself, and began compulsory economic lesson to high school students (rather than some stupid pendidikan moral).

Slowly sliding into a hole

That's me.


I can't stop thinking about her,
I can't help but to think about her,
My day is incomplete without being with her,
What's wrong me with?

I am already blissful with my life, but yet,
I am discontent.
What's wrong with me?

A bold prediction >> a big earthquake will hit Indonesia

Hi all,

Some of you might not know, but I am actually an avid student of seismology and earthquakes as they are closely related to my field of studies.

In recent week, there has been a high seismic activity in the Indonesia-Australia fault zone. While it is normal to expect low-moderate(3-4 Ritcher Scale) level of earthquakes to occur of a particular normal year, it's atypical to have a high concentration of moderate-high level(5-6 Ritcher Scale) of earthquakes in a short period of time. I postulate, that, with the series of earthquakes, in reality, could indicate an incoming massive earthquake (7+ Ritcher Scale) in this fault zone. The scientific explanation for it is rather convulated, but the general idea is, the fault is due to slip anytime now, but it's gradually slipping (hence the moderate earthquakes). However, at one point, the moderate slipping will trigger a massive slipping - partly due to the shock effects of slipping at one fault, to another one along the same fault line.

Well, it's just my postulate. :)

Recent Earthquakes in Australiasia Zone

Time to think about the environment!

I am not sure whether it is the third-world mentality, or rather the wrong priority on the wrong issues. As a Malaysian, I am used to reading about weird news on snooping, corruptions, sexy dresses, artiste insulting prophet's wife or racial politics. However, the article from the STar Development puts the heat on cities , manage to make its way to the headline of a mainstream newspaper, is indeed refreshing. It's good to know, sometimes, on the back of our mind, we do think about all these more important issues.

In many countries, New Zealand for example, environmental issues such as nuclear technology or greenhouse gases are major political issues. However, in contrast, our politicians like to talk about racial supremacy, or economics benefits (ala developments in the form of government contracts), or your-typical-bash-the-opposition-islamic-values talk. How and when we, as a nation will grow up and start to think about the environment?

The article itself highlighted three issues that seems to compound the problem of overheated urban cities bolded lines are my opinions
a) concrete building storing heats and releasing it at night
isnt this a good thing?? In reality, the so-called urban heat island phenomena is nothing other than the fact that our urban cities have too much impervious surfaces and too few greens.

b) that brought us t the second issues - lack of green trees.
this can be more true. we do need trees..as in big big trees. not just some fancy low maintenance nipah/palm trees.

c) lastly, the use of roof tiles
I am surprised that the Department of Drainage and Irrigation (why are they involved anyway?), would raise this issue. In contrary to the suggestion of the use of reflective roof, i personally think roof tiles are much better heat absorber. If all houses/buildings adopt the reflective roof tiles, we ll bound to have higher average temperature in cities because all the sunlight is reflected away from the structures.

Honestly, this article only serves the purpose of awareness. It doesn't have much scientific value, nor any concrete suggestion/plan. ANother one-minute-fame news. Too bad for the hutan-hutan beluka (forest).

On the side note, there's an earthquake in SUmatra! I think one day we ll get a big one that hit singapore/malaysia! Source: The star Earthquake!