Suspension Bridge built for Free, who to be blamed?

The newly-constructed suspension bridge that gave way, caused 3 death recently was reported to be built free.

The question that come to my mind is..why is the bridge built for free? When it is build for free, what is the liability of the constructor? Was there any specification that the constructor is oblige to abide to? There could be unclear specification as to the weight that the suspension bridge can support.

Before all finger is pointing to the constructor, should we also ask who draw the specification? Was the specification meant to support more than 15 people crossing at anytime? Furthermore, who is so good that he/she managed to convince the company to build the bridge for FREE?

So, thing is getting complicated now. Maybe the original specification is to build the bridge capable to support at least 20 people at anytime, but because it is to be build free of charge, the requirement may be lowered to support 10 people only?

Can the government provide us more details as to what is the required specifications? Can the government also answer why is the bridge build by a company for free?

If the government can get the bridge to be build free, can they get the company to build government hostel for free too? This is truly another Malaysia Bolah example. Public utilities build FOC!

Raja Petra's Son beaten in Sg. Buloh Prison?

Oh my god... Raja Petra's son is beaten daily in the Sg. Buloh Prison in all attempts to force him to pled guilty to all charges. This is reported in Raja Petra's blog (http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/28119/84/)

This is a dirty tactic used by our Government to force Raja Petra out from his hiding? Instead of trying to hunt RPK down, they choose the easier route. Beating his son, so to make RPK feel bad that he is the root cause to his son's suffering. I can imagine how bad a father would feel about it.

But I am furious!!! How can a Government resorts to such inhuman tactic! I wonder if the police would investigate, or it is the work of the police?

If such claim by Raja Petra is true, what guarantee that man in the street like us will be protected from any injustice? How much faith can we place on our Government?

This naturally lead me to think if the same was actually forced onto Teoh Hock Beng, forcing him to admit and accuse the same to his boss, which result in a tragedy.

Whatever the outcome of the inquiry, public opinion has been formed, and I fear that more and more people are losing faith in the present Malaysian Government unless drastic clean-up efforst are been done. Suggested areas to work on first are:

1. Altantuya C4 Case
2. Lingam correct correc correct case
3. PKFTZ
4. Former Selangor MB Shah Alam Mansion
5. Teoh Hock Beng
6. Whoever mentioned in the Auditor-General Report

Anymore? The government understands that Malaysian are generally forgetful, so I think it is important that we constantly remind ourselves of these outstanding cases, which we shall repeatly remind them when the general election come.

Najib says culprits will face action, We are waiting!

The New Strait Times reported that Najib is disappointed over the irregularities and mismanagement as exposed by the Auditor-General report 2008.

Najib said:"I know and I am disappointed. This is a big government but once we start the key performance indicators and national key result areas, it will be a lot better."

What does this means? Are you saying that you are not going after those mentioned in the Auditor-General report? We are not keen about your Future KPI, we are keen that you take immediate action against those who misused the public funds!

According to the newspaper, Najib said the most important thing after the exposure was for the state governments, agencies and departments that had been taken to task by the auditor-general to take certain measures.

"We must take certain steps, for instance, punitive action. This is usually not seen.

"We need to reward performers while those who transgress (flout the rules and regulations) should face punitive action."

This needed to be done as part and parcel of good governance, Najib added.

So, it is nice to hear these, but it has been four days and we have seen no follow-up actions. I wonder what will happen 2 week later. When the main stream media start to raise other issues, which most people now talk about the 2009 Budget, the public will slowly forget about Auditor-General report and the Culprits go harmless.
The Auditor-General as been highlighting areas of weaknesses year in year out, but years after years, we hear the same report.

If Najib is serious about correcting the wrongs, he should instruct MACC to investigate all parties mentioned in the Auditor-General report from 2002 till now. Show us that you are serious in reform, otherwise, people will start losing faith in your leadership.

RHB Bank Slow to response to Plishing Site

In my nature of Work, I would frequently come across many phishing sites. Upon detecting a phishing, I would naturally notify respective banks so that they can take immediate action to take down these phishing sites.

For those who do not understand the term "Phishing", it is merely a fake site set-up by malicious parties, hoping to mislead public into revealing their online details such as User name and password. Upon securing these details, they will login to the bank online system and transfer all your money before you realised it.

Thus, it is common that well established banks are always targeted. Maybank and CIMB bank are commonly attacked. However, I am aware that these banks engage professional Anti-Phishing Services to take down phishing site attaking them.

My past experience with these banks are quite good. Upon alerting them, it take usually 1-2 days before the site is taken down. However, the same cannot be said about RHB bank.

Here is a link to a phishing site (http://fmtnetlog.freewebhostx.com/RHBonline.update.htm) which was alerted to RHB via email (customer_service@rhbbank.com.my) on October 22, 2009.
Neither did I receive any confirmation email that they are acting on this report.

Although, the look and feel of this phishing site is not exactly the same, but it still bears the RHB logo. Thus, there is no reasons why RHB should not act against it.

Let's see how long does it take before RHB takes actions.

Ban Condoms??

Next time when you see Condom, you must remember this name: Zulkifli Noordin.

Who is Zulkifli Noordin? He is a Malaysian MP (Member of Parliament) who has submitted a private member's bill to call for a ban on Convenience store from selling Condoms and Beer.

Why? It could be because in his eye, Condoms are only used by less moral people. And Beer, being conveniently available to Muslim youth would cause them to be derailed from their belief.

I am just wondering why these people’s beliefs are so weak that they can easily get distracted from their teaching. I think calling for such a ban is an insult to most people.

Condoms is vital in stopping the spread of HIVs / AIDs, it is used for family planning and safe sex, not Free Sex. Beer if consume moderately is actually good for health, although it is forbidden to Muslim. Thus, if Zulkifli Noordin wishes to call for a ban, then he should push for the banning of cigarette sales. Not just in convenience store, but include sundry store, supermarket and hypermarket. I will surely lend him my support!

There is no justifiable benefits to smoking, it will definitely appeal to most people, except the smokers, but, they will thanks him later on for saving their life and money.

Ban smoking would help Malaysia Government save millions in educational advertisements, need not have the limited hospital beds filled by these lungs cancer patients.

Unless there are things that are more harmful than smoking, otherwise, stopping calling for banning this, banning that.

Banning Beers...then, ban Condoms, then ban Horror Movie...what next?
Ban Internet? Because of pornography?
Ban Astro? Because of beauty pageant contest?
Ban Concert? Because Hair not cover?
Ban 3G? Because can access to internet?
Ban game console? Because of violent games?

That will make us no better that Myanmar.

RM43,320 for a Acer Notebook?

Only in a land, known as Malaysia, that you are able to do thing that is unimaginable. This is mainly because the Malaysia Government has been promoting the "Malaysia Can" slogan, commonly known as "Malaysia Boleh".

Malaysia Government has been very successfully in breeding super talented entrepreneurs who are the best marketer in the world. Their ability to market a common item and have it sold for more than 10 times higher than market price to many Government agencies put many Chartered Marketers from the prestigious Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK, to shame.

This group of Malaysian Entrepreneurs need not apply basic Marketing principles, forget about the 4Ps or 7Ps, (Product, Promotion, Place, Price, People, Process, Physical Evidence) they most probably need to apply 3B, that is Bribe, Bribe and Bribe.

Need prove of their ability? If they can sell to a Collage 2 unit of Acer Notebook (Acer Aspire-5052ANWXMI) which based on www.naaptol.com published price of Rs27,490 each (RM2,000.00) for a whopping price of RM42,320 each!! Total selling price for 2 units of Acer Aspire-5052ANWXMI is RM84,640.00!! Although, it is unclear when these 2 units of Acer Notebook has been sold, and the market price then could be slightly higher, but definiely not anywhere 5 digits.

To further proven their marketing skill, they manage to sell it to a College! It is report in the Star newspaper that this college is Kolej Kemahiran Tinggi Mara Balik Pulau in Penang.

I wonder what will be the quality of this college product.

Conclusion? Anything can happen in the Land known as Malaysia. This is Malaysia lah, truly Malaysia! Amazing Malaysia!

1 Malaysia F1 team

Malaysian are sooner or later going to forget the Rukun Negara as the most talk about theme today is 1 Malaysia! Billboard, Newspaper as well as radio ads are all about 1 Malaysia. Now, more exciting is the 1 Malaysia F1 team.

Although, it is a private business venture initiated by Datuk Seri Tony Fernandes, Datuk Kamarudin Meranun and SM Nasarudin SM Nasimudin as reported in the Star newspaper. I wonder how it is possible if it is without the government support? Honda Motor has recent announced exiting the F1, cited heavy investment and losses, thus, it would become a worldwide business case study if Datuk Seri Tony Fernandes and team are able to make this venture profitable within 1 year! That will be truly Malaysia boleh!

There is nothing really impossible in Malaysia! The Bakun Dam, The PKFZ, The C4 etc.
It is really not too difficult to be profitable in this 1MF1T venture. What needed is only sponsorship, so it does not really matters if the team is able to win, what really needed is the solid support from various interested companies to place their logos on the 1MF1T car. We can really count on Petronas, TM, Genting, Axiata, MAS, AirAsia, Proton, Malaysia Tourism Board, Sime Darby, Berjaya etc.

Their reasoning is simple and easy to understand, it would be much more expensive to place their logos onto other F1 teams. Never mind if the 1MF1T does not win, this is the 1Malaysia spirit which the government is promoting.

The 1Malaysia promotion is so successful that we will soon have 1Malaysia Hostel, 1Malaysia Durian, 1malaysia University, 1Malaysia Hotel, 1Malaysia Satay, 1Malaysia Hospital, 1Malaysia Party!

This is Malaysia lah! So, anything can happen!

After .com / .net/ .org/ .biz and Info, now comes .tel

Not many people are aware that there are actually a lot more domain extensions, apart from the most common .com / .net /.org extension. 9/10 wouls still have the mis-conception that .com stands for commercial, .net for internet related business and .org solely reserved for Non-profit organization. These are not true! Anyone is free to register for a .org extension if they wanted too, subject of course availability.

But apart from com net org, there are secondary generic Top level domains which hope to offer more choices, just in case your desired names are no longer available in .com. you may want to consider .Biz / .info /.name /.Asia and lastly .tel.

.Tel is a interesting extension as it does not require you to subscribe to hosting service such .tel is positioned to be an electronic business card or name card. A sample of a great .tel domain which I find it useful is www.mobileyp.tel, a global contact directory which listed some emergency / useful numbers of various Asian countries.

We need to understand that all other domain extensions are meant for desktop viewing, except .tel extension which is specially cater to mobile phone viewing. Thus, you will realize that the format of any .tel extension is standardized, which I supposed are optimized for most mobile phone surfing.

Another feature of .tel are all contact information published in .tel domain are click-to-call enabled. Thus, saving much hassle to remember or copy the contact information. You click to the contact numbers and your phone immediately make that call. Your email / outlook open for you to compose your message when you click to the email address. Your instant messager or Skype activated when you click to the chat icon. or skype call.

With such amazing features, it is sad that Malaysian has yet to realize the usefulness of a .tel extension. Image if Maybank has registered Maybank.tel, it could be used as a contact directory if it is organized to what www.mobileyp.tel has done.

It will take many years before Malaysian really catch up...Sigh! What to do? This is Malaysia lah!

No touch n Go card? No entry to Malaysia - This is Malaysia Lah!

This is Malaysia lah!

Do you think that the Malaysia Government has placed serious thought about making things convenience for the people? If the Malaysia Government does not even bother to make life easy and convenience for its Citizen, such as waiving off RM0.50 charges for every top-up into your T&G cards as well as not charging extra when using T&G card for your parking, do not expect that they would bother to make things easy for Foreigners.

What monopoly is for? It is for certain special group of people to make quick and easy money. Imagine if there are 200,000 T&G cards in circulation, each with a credit of RM100, that will be RM20,000,000 cash. Each card does a top-up once a month, that will make RM100,000 per month or RM1,200,000 net profit.

No wonder they are forcing Singaporeans to get a T&G card before they enter Malaysia......This is Malaysia la



27 Sept 2009 JOHOR BARU: Commuters of the Second Link in Tanjung Kupang are finding it a hassle since the toll plaza there no longer accepts cash payment.
Technician Ruzman Khairul, 44, a Singaporean, said he felt inconvenienced because the Touch ‘n Go or SmartTAG could only be bought in Malaysia.
“Touch ‘n Go cards should also be sold in Singapore so that we can be prepared before we come here,” he said.
Although the system would help ease traffic, he said, there should still be an option for people who pay with cash.
PLUS Expressways Bhd had earlier annnounced that all toll transactions at the Tanjung Kupang toll plaza would be conducted electronically starting Sept 14. No reason was provided.
Another Singaporean, Rohaidi Khamis, 30, said the new move was inconvenient to infrequent users. The school teacher said many commuters were unaware of the cashless system at the toll plaza.
Ivan Jensen, 52, felt that there should have been more publicity on the matter prior to its implementation.
The engineer from Denmark said commuters who did not use the Second Link regularly would be the most affected. “They probably would not know about the system until they reach the toll booth.”
Another businessman, known only as Tham, said motorists from Singapore would be endangering their lives as they would have to park their car by the roadside, then cross over to the other side of the busy route to purchase the card.
Gelang Patah MP Tan Ah Heng said PLUS should have sought feedback from the public before implementing such a system.
Toll charges should also be reviewed to make it more attractive for motorists, she said, adding that she would write to PLUS and the Public Works Department soon.
State Tourism, Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Committee chairman Hoo Seong Chang was surprised with the move.
“The Second Link is one of only two land entry points into the southern region,” he said.