Cops Set For Pay Rise

Lately, there was a news regarding the government will increase the salary of the policeman in our country.

According to our beloved Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the public service department had already drafted a proposal for a salary increase for the police force and it was preparing for a initial study to be presented to the government.

In the news, I’d found that our Prime Minister admitted the current salary scheme for the 95,000- strong force was “not high” and could be “the cause of other problems, including the related to bribery and corruption.”

In my opinion, I don’t think that even though the government increased the salary of the blue man and blue girl, while this will not really stop the bribery and corruption of our police in this country.

As for Malaysia, bribe can be considered as one of our culture. Every corner around this world, as long as there is money exist, and the one who owned it can make their things and stuff goes more smoother, so as well as in our country.

I’d one experience before about this. One unlucky night, I was talking on the phone while driving, and eventually get caught by a police car, while as usual they were both in it. When I scrolled down my car window, as usual the need my I/C, and my driving license to check my status. Due to I’m in a rush to my friend’s, when one of the policeman asked me why did I against the rules, I just stopped him by saying “ cepat bagi saya saman.”

I could guarantee that both of them were shocked of my reaction, and the one who heard my “offered” was blur standing there didn’t know what to do. So the other police man approached me, and told me “ Adik, saman mesti melebihi Rm 200 punya, are u sure u mau?” what a typical Manglish.

So I asked them “bang, boleh settle tak?” and for sure you guys will know what happened next, and eventually I just lost RM 10 instead of RM 200.

So, it is obvious that even though if the government doesn’t increase the salary of the blue mans and the blue girls, their salary will be very “high” because of the “commission” that they get from us.

As in conclusion, if I had an opportunity to meet pak Lah, I would tell him why doesn’t the government just increase the innocent publics’ salary in order to make our life more better, especially contributing some “commission” to our “friends”.

Here Comes The Shark Loan!

The differences between Shark Loans and Bank Loans are The Shark will hurt the borrowers, but the Bank won’t. Does it Make Sense? Or I can say that one of the differences between the legal “AH LONG” and the Illegal “AH LONG” is the procedure and the interest of the loan. Bank needs more procedure and documentation to confirm and assure when comes to loan, thus private Banker will only need the people’s Photostat I/c, and for sure the interest will be more higher, but most importantly, people can get the MONEY in a easier and faster way.

Lately in the Star newspaper, there was this news about Ah Long menace has reached a worrying stage, says the Deputy Internal Security Minister Datuk Fu Ah Kiow. “The Ah Long menace has reached a worrying stage and they have become a public nuisance. They have been causing hardship and misery to borrowers. We have to come down hard on them because it is getting out of hand,” he said.

He said the committee had agreed to freeze the issuance of new money-lending licences, pending police vetting, as more than 3,000 licences had been issued to date.

Fu said the committee had also agreed to strictly monitor legal moneylenders to ensure they comply with the rules and regulations. These include charging only the permitted interest rates, having an office, not renting out their licences and not appointing runners or third parties to solicit business.

“The Internal Security Ministry has also written to the media not to accept advertisements from moneylenders without advertising permits,” he said.

The Finance Ministry has been asked to look into providing micro-credit loans to prevent the public from turning to loan sharks.

“Additional police officers have also been seconded to the Housing and Local Government Ministry’s monitoring and enforcement division to fight loan sharks,” Fu said.

Police would also track down Ah Long who had been distributing flyers, stickers and call cards. The Housing and Local Government Ministry has been requested to put up anti-Ah Long messages and slogans on billboards.

As we know that the government is trying their best to stop the growing of the Shark Loan, as in conclusion, those who needs money please go to the BANK!!!!

This year's Matta Fair, Tourism Industry RockZ!!!

KUALA LUMPUR: The Matta Fair is back — and this time round, in line with Visit Malaysia 2007, visitors who buy domestic packages have a chance to win a Proton Gen2 car. Organizing committee deputy chairman Joseph Xavier said that for the first time, those who spend a minimum of RM200 on domestic packages could enter the Buyers Contest in the domestic category. Those who spend a minimum of RM500 instead, stand to win the other grand prize of a Proton Waja 1.6 Campro. [quote: theStar March 15]

Even though our country in known as an almost corrupt country, but one thing that I still feel proud of our country is it’s tourism industry, especially this year. Other than building many beautiful and elegant Mosque in our land, this year, the Malaysian government had built a wonderful and gorgeous ferris wheel which name “Eye On Malaysia”. This make me feels that 2007 is a wonderful year, because it will be full of tourist coming in to visit out country, and the most important, the economy of Malaysia will grow.

Come back to 23^rd Matta fair, about 80,000 visitors are expected for the three-day event held at the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC). There will be over 230 exhibitors and sponsors occupying 915 booths in Halls 1, 2 and 3. About 41% of the booths taken up are to promote domestic tourism.

"The projected sales turnover is RM85mil,"said Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (Matta) president Ngiam Foon , adding that local and international travel agents, carriers and National Tourism Organisations were taking part in the fair.

The fair will be opened on Friday by Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Andan Tengku Mansor. Ngiam also said that to better facilitate communications between Matta and the public, they have set up a Matta Complaints Bureau to handle complaints throughout the year. "Previously, unsatisfied customers have written letters to us, or to different parties.

"This bureau is to streamline the complaints and channel them to the right person," he said, adding they were looking into the possibility of having a dedicated hotline for this purpose. He added: "For now, the public can call the general line and to be directed to the bureau."

In a press statement, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) commercial director Datuk Abdul Rashid Khan said in line with the Matta Fair, MAS would be "marketing 23 packages to spur domestic tourism, and another 53 packages to 48 international destinations".

The 3 days/2 nights domestic packages range between RM411 and RM855 and are discounted between 11% and 25% off the normal prices.

For international travel, the offer ranges from 3 days/2 nights to 6 days/4 nights 'Free and Easy' packages between RM435 and RM4,952.

Global Warming Approaching!

15 days before Chinese New Year, the weather of KL has become warmer. Some people said that it is because of the spring arrival, that’s why it caused the entire land become warm and comfortable. But eventually, everyone in the town felt like the warming sunshine, is slowly increasing the heat to an abnormal and uncomfortable situation. And strangely the first day of Chinese New Year, it end up with a heavy morning rain. If compare to the past 10 years, this is a strange case. Is this the GOD’s sign of something gonna happened? Or the sign of Global Warming is approaching?

1. [PETALING JAYA: Temperatures in Malaysia’s highland areas including the three major hill resorts – Cameron Highlands, Genting Highlands and Fraser’s Hill – are rising and over-development has been blamed for this.]

2. [IPOH: Birdwatchers at Cameron Highlands are noticing lowland birds that have never been seen in the highlands area “moving in” while indigenous birds have flown elsewhere, presumably to colder climates. This is a clear sign that the area was warming up, according to Regional Environmental Awareness Cameron Highlands (Reach) president R. Ramakrishnan]

3. [IT IS goodbye to chilly offices with sweater-clad workers, and hello to hi-tech air-conditioning, waterless urinals and solar power – as Singapore's buildings gear up to “go green.” From next year, all new public buildings and those undergoing major retrofitting have to earn the environment-friendly “Green Mark” – proof that they are energy- and water-efficient, with good indoor environments.]

4. [PUTRAJAYA: Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Johor Baru and the administrative capital of the nation, Putrajaya, are 5 °C hotter than other cities in the country. Rapid development and the lack of trees are turning these cities into urban heat islands (UHI) that are hot even at night.]

Above are the Environmental News of the past several weeks. It obviously shows that the climate, weather and the temperature of the country is changing, and global warming is starting or we can say that it is started. But sadly we Malaysian or the other nation around the world are not giving a damn concern about the incident and case, except the Naturalists who are the one who worried about the lifetime of this polluted world.

Yesterday while I was driving back from college to my house, what a sick when I saw those low educated people and I think they are the only one who likes to burn their rubbish, standing in front of their house and starting their “BBQ”. Isn’t that the government had given warning to the nation that burning rubbish is a crime? How come this people still don’t know how to obey the rules? And the worst part is, the police car that passed by never even stopped down and arrested those Burner, whereas just pretend like never saw anything!!! Seriously I really hope can suggest them to watch “An Inconvenient Truth”.

Last but not least, if the nation still don’t know how to take care of our mother earth, we will eventually make the End Of The World happened more earlier than we expect Dude!!!