Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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!

Saturday, September 26, 2009

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.
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