A CLEVER METHOD OF SNATCHING YOUR THINGS
Subject: I was robbed at Petaling Street on Tuesday eveningI was at a souvenir shop at Jalan H.S.Lee, Petaling Street on Tuesday evening 5Oct 2006.A young Indian lady told me that there's a stain on my pants.(The young Indian is around 20-25 yrs old, long hair, about 160cm tall, her skin is quite fair, she's wearing t-shirt & jeans and she's speaking very fluent English.)I turned back and checked and found out that there's a red stain looked like paint on my pants.So, this lady helped me to clear the stain from my pants. After that, I continue looking for soft toy in the shop.Then, the lady asked me whether I want to clean the stain. I rejected her offer and told her that I'm going back home and I can clean it at home.After that, she told me that she was a teacher at a famous tuition center in KL just opposite the shop and she's waiting for her brother.She wanted to go to toilet to wash her hands (Her hand was dirtied when helping me to wipe away the stain) and she invited me to go to the toilet with her.So, I followed her to the toilet to clean the stain on my pants.She brought me to the ladies at the 1st floor of the tuition center. I took off my bag and put it on the basin so that I can clean the stain on my pants.While I was cleaning, she took my bag and ran away.Everything was just happened in 3 minutes. I was so shock when I found out my bag and the lady was gone.The young Indian lady left her things in the toilet and ran away with my bag.I searched through her belongings and found a lipstick in the envelope she left.Then, I realized that she's the one who put the red lipstick stain on my pants and pretended to help me.I went to the tuition center together with the police officer for investigation on the next day.I was able to recognize the young Indian lady from the CCTV record. The security head of the tuition center told me that I am the 2nd victim.5 months ago, the same young Indian lady did the same case using same method at the same place to 1 of the student in the tuition center.During the investigation, I was told that to print out the young Indian lady's photo from the CCTV costs RM150.The tuition center wanted me to bear the printing cost because I'm neither a staff nor a student there. I refused to bear the cost because I am the victim.I asked the police officer whether the police force can bear the cost because it's an evidence.Guess what the police officer told me…He told me not to put too much hope that they will be able to catch the thief, 70%-80% that they will not be able to catch the thief.Sigh…With all the evidence provided (the CCTV record, the thief's belongings, and her finger print was printed on the envelope she left), the police officer told me not to put too much hope that they will be able to catch the thief.I was so disappointed.So, I decided to share my experience to everyone of you. Hopefully you will not be the next victim because the thief is still free out there.This is her 2nd successful case, so there will be 3rd time and so on until she's caught.The police officer told me that such cases always happen at Bukit Bintang and Low Yat Plaza area.So, pls be careful when you are at that area and trust no one.Just ignore and walk away when a stranger tells you that your clothes is dirty.Pls share my experience to your friends and family especially ladies.Hopefully your friends and family will not be the next victim.
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Altantuya's baby 'not related to analyst'
KUALA LUMPUR: The political analyst is not the father of Altantuya Shaariibuu’s 16-month-old baby boy.Honorary consul of Mongolia in Malaysia Datuk Syed Abdul Rahman Alhabshi said this in response to reports in several newspapers yesterday."Altantuya has a son. But the child is not related to the analyst," Syed said at his office in Sunway Damansara yesterday.He also refuted reports that Altantuya’s family would be sending documents to show that the deceased had married the analyst."I asked the family to send me proof of her relationship with the analyst," he said."They have faxed us details of her trip from Kuala Lumpur to Shanghai in March last year, which was paid for by the analyst at a travel agency here. "They have also sent recent pictures of Altantuya but there is no marriage certificate coming." He also denied telling the media that Altantuya’s parents would be coming here with her baby for DNA testing to ascertain whether the baby is the analyst’s son. "They will be coming for DNA tests here to ascertain if the remains found in Puncak Alam are that of Altantuya."
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Friday, November 10, 2006

Top political analyst arrested! Explosive end to affair that turned sour
KUALA LUMPUR: The country was abuzz yesterday after a prominent political analyst was arrested in connection with the abduction and brutal murder of a Mongolian woman.The New Straits Times understands that Attantuya Shariibu @ Aminah allegedly demanded US$500,000 (RM1.85 million) as payment after he signalled the end of their affair. She claimed that she had given birth to his child and threatened to go public if her demand was not met. After checking and finding her claim to be false, he lodged a police report last month. What happened next is a bit murky but three police personnel — including two from the Special Action Squad — have been arrested and are likely to be charged with murder. It is believed that she was shot execution-style somewhere in Puncak Alam before her body was placed over some explosives and detonated.Using a battery of metal detectors, sniffer dogs and post- blast investigation equipment, police personnel examined a shallow grave and surrounding areas for nearly eight hours. They found a handful of bone fragments.Aminah’s case came to light after Aminah’s sister lodged a missing person’s report on Oct 21. In it, she identified the political analyst as a suspect. Bit by bit, the police dug and managed to put together a mosaic of what took place.They learnt that she and the analyst — who runs a think- tank — were introduced to each other at a party abroad a few years ago. They struck up a relationship and had been seeing each other off and on abroad. Several months ago, the analyst told her that he wanted to end the relationship. Early last month, Aminah, her sister and cousin turned up in Kuala Lumpur. She hired a private investigator to obtain as much information about the analyst. She also bombarded him with SMSes.She attempted to visit him at his office and home in Damansara but was prevented by security staff. The analyst also engaged the services of a security consultant to make sure that she did not continue to harass him.On Oct 19, she showed up outside his home and created a ruckus.Her sister said that Aminah did not return to their hotel in Chinatown and lodged a police report two days later.Top-notch investigators were yesterday interrogating those in custody to fill some important blanks in the case, namely how the police personnel got involved. The analyst, in his 40s, is expected to be produced before a magistrate today.Meanwhile, the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday clarified that the member of the Special Action Squad detained in connection with the murder was not part of the Prime Minister’s permanent personal security team. A spokesman told Bernama that the police personnel was only a member of a team whose duties include providing security on a rotational basis to Malaysian VIPs when they travel overseas.
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The saga of the Johor Bigfoot may not have ended.
Loud noises and the breaking of branches at a rubber plantation in Kampung Batu 4, about three kilometres from the Kota Tinggi waterfall on Monday night, have fuelled interest again in the creature.Workers at a kongsi checked the area at dawn and found large footprints on the ground.State Wildlife Department director Ab Razak Majid said the prints were that of a young renegade bull elephant, but Tenggara Parliament Youth Consensus Council chairman Marozan Ahmad felt otherwise."Based on the size and shape of the footprints, droppings and remains of banana plants, we are sure that an elephant had intruded into the plantation," Razak said."It would be difficult to track it down as it would have moved to another location in the jungle by now."Marozan had ventured into the secondary jungle behind the kongsi with a group of youths to investigate the source of the disturbance."We found large footprints measuring about 45cm long. The pair of footprints had a stride of about a metre apart. This indicates that a large bi-pedal creature had moved around here. There are twigs and leaves broken off from trees from a height of more than two metres." Marozan hoped the authorities and researchers would investigate the footprints. "A group of experts should track into the interior of the jungle. The Bigfoot would be a positive development for the district as it will attract experts and scientists here," he said.
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Thursday, June 29, 2006

School in Malaysia

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

RM3000
Let's to do some calculations here. In Malaysia the average family income is RM3000 (Father works, mother doesnt). I understand there are a lot of families whose income don't reach RM3000, but, to make things simple, lets take RM3000 as the figure. ok la right?Okay, let's start rolling with a family which has Papa, Mama, 1 daughter and 1 son. ngam ngam..Calculation starts...Electricity and water bil RM100 (no aircond, no home theatre, no water heater k?)Telekom and Handphone bil RM100 (cannot make a lot of calls one you know? NO Streamyx also)Meal for the whole happy family RM775 (3 meals on RM25/day, RM25 for 4 persons????)Papa makan/teh tarik during working hours RM155 (RM5/day, RM5 can eat what?)Car repayment RM400 (a proton saga aeroback, 7 years repayment)Petrol RM300 (Living in City, Jam) Go to work, bring son to school, only can afford one car running.Insurance RM650, (kids, wife and myself).House repayment RM750 (Low cost housing repayment for 30 years, retired still have to work to pay house!)Tuition RM80 (got that cheap meh?? No, I don't think so)Older children pocket money @ school RM20 (RM1/day, eat bread??)School fees RM30 (enough ah??)School books and etc etc. RM100 (always got extra to pay in school)Younger children milk powder RM50 (cannot have the DHA, BHA, PHA one, expensive)Miscellaneous RM100 (shampoo, rice, sauce, toilet paper)oh wait!!! I have to stop here, so... No Astro, no movie @ cinema, no DVD, no CD, no online, cannot KFC, cannot Mc Donald, cannot go Park walk during weekend(petrol expensive), no chit chat on phone with grandparents, and etc...Let's use a calculator to total up... WALAO EI.. Shit! RM3610 already.. EPF belum potong, income tax lagi,........ oledi --- RM610... How tosurvive laa tuan-tuan dan puan-puan sekalian??? Our Deputy Prime Minister ask us to change lifestyle? How to change? Don't eat? Don't work? Don't send children to school and study? Besides that, I believe in Malaysiapopulation, there are millions of Rakyat Malaysia which still don't earn RM3000/month!!!What is this? Ini lah Malaysia Boleh.. Sorry.. it should be MalaysiansBoleh, because we're still alive and kicking!!Our politicians must be mad!!!!!!
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Thursday, May 18, 2006

Coca Cola
I found this very interesting. So, are you a fan of Coke? If yes, then this might interest you!Infos, facts and fictions or maybe myths….all related to Coca Cola.1. The color of Coca Cola was originally green!*2. Coca Cola was originated by a pharmacist (Doctor John Pembert) as a drug to cure depression.3. Coca Cola once being made from cocaine and also had alcohol in it.4. Coca Cola was originally made form Coca-leaves (cocaine-plant) and Cola-nuts (which grow in Africa).5. When coke commercialized, the cocaine and alcohol where left out and the original recipe was replaced by the “7X”-formula.6. Coke can be used to relieve the sting from Jelly Fish.7. Coke also can be used to relieve hiccups.8. Coke can be used as tanning lotion.9. Coke can be used to make a new photo look antique. Just soak in it!10. Coke also can be used to remove gum from gum coated hair.11. The Navy uses Coke to help preserve it’s submarines.12. If you put a can of diet Coca Cola and a can of regular Coca Cola in a swimming pool….. the can of regular Coke will sink, but the can of Diet Coke will float!13. Coke can be used to clean ancient bronze coins.14. Coke is a perfect grout cleaner for tile floors.15. Coke can remove fishy smell from clothes.16. Coke can be used to remove oil stains from concrete driveways or garages.17. Coke can also be used to remove stains from carpet. (Even permanent marker stain)18. Coke can makes your lawn grass greener.19. Coke can ease cold symptoms. (Add with some fresh ginger)20. Uncarbonated cake can heel nauseated.21. Coke can power up your accumulator (storage battery)22. Coke can also remove blood stains.23. Coke can get rid of rats!24. Coke can clean/remove corrosion (rusting).25. Coke is used to clean toilet bowl.
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Thursday, April 20, 2006

When 30 cents went a long way
Raja Petra KamarudinNot that I am trying to brag, but I could be considered a rich kid in my primary school days in the late 1950s and early 1960s. I received pocket money of 20 cents a day whereas most of the other kids would get only 10 cents or less. I would cycle from my home in Bukit Kuda (near Bukit Raja in Kelang -- so named because, before WWII, our family used to own the land around there; whereas Bukit Kuda got its name because of the horses on the hill of course) to Meru, so the 20 cents was necessary as a cold drink cost 5 cents and I needed another 5 cents for my mee goreng . That gave me a balance of 10 cents to splurge on pineapples, which Meru was famous for. A whole pineapple cost 5 cents. The surplus 5 cents I would use to play tikam-tikam , a sort of gambling game where you pulled a piece of paper off a board and you won various prizes depending on what was written on the paper -- sometimes it would be a toy gun, plastic car, and such rubbish.I first ?hit the road? in 1966, exactly 40 years ago. I was then 16, so I could legally own a motorcycle licence. I could not obtain a car licence until I was 18 though. By then my pocket money had increased to 10 dollars a week (maybe worth 100 ringgit today), but it would never last the week as I was on the road most of my waking hours. (You must be joking if you think I spent my free time studying for my exams).My first bike was a 90cc Yahama, which I later upgraded to a 100cc Twin when the 90cc got too battered up because of the many crashes I endured. In those days, this would set you back about 1,000 dollars, 10% of what you would have to pay today. Also, in those days, Malaysia had not gone metric yet, so we still calculated everything in gallons, miles, miles per gallon, and miles per hour. Petrol was 1 dollar a gallon or roughly 23 cents a litre. With 10 dollars, I could ride my bike all the way to Penang on Saturday morning and be back in Kuala Lumpur by Sunday evening in time for school the next day. I of course could not afford to pay for hotel rooms so our motorcycle gang would sleep on the stone benches along Gurney Drive, which was then ?Millionaires Row?.Penang was famous for its ?grass? or ganja , which was sold openly along Penang Street and, in the 1960s, not yet considered a ?drug? -- and therefore not a serious crime. Even policemen traded in ganja at one dollar a role that could last a whole day and could be shared by half a dozen guys and gals (it was safer buying ganja from policemen, if you know what I mean, as they did not arrest their customers). In fact, ganja was not any stronger than a Camel or Lucky Strike cigarette so the mind boggles as to why ganja is now banned while Camel and Lucky Strike are still legal. But bringing ganja across to the mainland was a crime though (we did not have the required APs), so we had to be contented with enjoying it on the Island rather than risk getting caught by Customs. Well, Penang was a free port then and it was certainly ?free? in many aspects.My first job in 1970 was an apprenticeship with Volkswagen. My salary was 105 dollars a month, a lot of money in those days for a 20-year old. We must remember that the purchasing power of money then was ten times what it is today, so 105 dollars is equivalent to RM1,000 or so today. Suddenly I was flush with money. The fact I lived with my parents in Jalan Riong, Bangsar, helped as I did not have to put any money aside for rental or food, though I still had to pay for my lunch in the workshop canteen. The second year, my salary increased to 120 dollars. It would have been 140 for the third year and 160 for the final year, after which I would receive more than 300 dollars if I passed my apprenticeship exam. But I left in the second year because I refused to wash the cars that had been submerged in the flood. My supervisor had given me a toothbrush with which to clean the cars. I retaliated by hosing down the cars instead and got water in the engine while the inside of the car became a swimming pool (Volkswagens can float on water, in case you did not know). My supervisor flipped and sacked me on the spot. I walked out waving and smiling to the cheers of the entire workshop that hated the Indian supervisor they dubbed ?Black Hitler? (very racial, I must admit, but it was a German company).I was in fact ?overqualified? as an apprentice. Apprenticeships are for form three failures, those who did not qualify to go to form four, whereas I had an MCE qualification (then called GCE O-level). I could have gone to England do my A-level but my father thought sending me to England would be disastrous considering my ?wild? lifestyle. He preferred me closer to home where he could keep a watch on me, not that he was very successful at doing so.In those days, with an MCE qualification, you could get employment as a trainee officer with a bank or as a probationary inspector in the police force at more than 300 dollars salary a month (what would be RM3,000 plus today). After three years, when you passed your internal exam, you could become a confirmed bank officer or police inspector at maybe twice the salary. But none of this interested me. I was only interested in motorcycling around Malaysia and sleeping under the open sky beside the sea.That was life in Malaysia 40 years ago. All you needed was 300 or 400 dollars a month to get by. I got married earning that much money and even owned a car at the same time, which was cheaper than owning a wife. A 100cc motorcycle cost 1,000 dollars. Since I was ?rich?, I of course had a big bike, a 650cc Yamaha, which cost an ?exorbitant? 3,000 dollars, a ?ridiculous? price to pay for a mere motorcycle (you could buy a Volkswagen for twice that). Just before I got married I sold the Yamaha to buy my first car, a used (second-hand) Holden Torona. I traded that in for a Mitsubishi 1600 after I crashed my Holden on the Federal Highway and landed on the other side of the road (luckily it was a Holden and not a Proton, if not I would not be around today to write this article). The brand new Mitsubishi cost less than 10,000 dollars, amongst the most expensive car in its class.When my business saw success, I bought my first Mercedes Benz. It was a used or second-hand 240D (diesel) which cost me 30,000 dollars. I needed a diesel because I was travelling a lot and was clocking about 100,000 miles a year. I would drive to Johor in the afternoon, have a dinner meeting in Mersing, leave for KL around midnight, attend a meeting the next morning, leave KL that same afternoon, and be back in Kuala Terengganu in time for dinner. I was then in my 20s so I did not need much sleep.When Malaysia experienced a diesel shortage to crisis proportions in the late 1970s, I sold the 240D for the same price that I paid for it, 30,000 dollars, and bought a new Mercedes Benz 200 petrol for 37,000 dollars. Later, I traded that in for a BMW 728i, which cost me 85,000 dollars. I used that for awhile after which I traded it in for a Mercedes Benz 380 SE at the insistence of Cycle and Carriage, my partner in our new business venture (their German engineer had refused to step into my BMW when I fetched him at the airport). This cost me 125,000 dollars, the price of a Japanese car today. But that was over 20 years ago.And why, you may ask, am I telling you all this? Well, this is just to demonstrate the purchasing power of money then compared to today. What most of you are earning today is ten times what I earned then. But what I earned then went a long way. Today, even with your higher education and ten times higher income, you can hardly make ends meet, let alone enjoy the perks I did then. And don?t forget, today, you need to spend RM400,000 to get an overseas university education to earn what we earned then with a mere form five qualification. With a university education, we could earn a starting salary of RM8,000 to RM10,000 in today?s money value. But there was no motivation to go to university when we could save two years in form six and three years university, a total of five years, and in five years our salary would be equivalent to a university graduate just starting out (but passing some internal exams would be required first).Has the 30 sen increase in fuel prices upset you? Well, don?t get too upset. Even if they did not increase the price of petrol, or decided to reduce it again, you would still not be any richer. Today, if you earn less than RM3,000 a month, you are still poor even if the price of petrol did not increase. You can?t buy a motorcycle for less than RM1,000 or a good quality and fast car for less than RM10,000. You cannot own a Mercedes Benz for RM40,000 or a top end BMW 7 series for RM100,000. You cannot fill up your tank and drive to Penang or Johor and back for RM40. You cannot buy a single-storey house in Subang or Bangsar for RM20,000 or a two-storey home for RM45,000. If you send your kids to England, you need RM400,000 over three years and RM1 million if they decide to do medicine. Coke no longer cost 20 cents, nor does a cup of tea or coffee. A trip to the supermarket to fill up your cart would set you back RM400, more than a month?s salary in the old days.Okay, forget about comparing Malaysia then to Malaysia today. Let us compare Malaysia today to UK today.My sons live in Manchester -- been there more than four years now. They earn UK £5 an hour. If they work 8 hours, that would be £40 per day -- they work more hours than that though, sometimes 10 or 12 hours, so they make more than £40 per day. With this salary, they pay their cost through college and since they share a two-room apartment at £320 a month (which they pay weekly at £80) their living cost is quite manageable. In a month, each of my sons takes home more than £1,000, sometimes even up to £1,200.Forget about converting all this to ringgit. Let us just calculate everything based on £1 equals RM1. This is because that same job that earns you £1,200 in Manchester will earn you RM1,200 in Malaysia. So we have to look at it on the basis of one-to-one. If you earn RM1,200 per month in Malaysia, can you rent a two-room apartment in the city for RM320? Will you be able to spend RM20 (£20) for a cart-full of groceries like in Manchester, or will it be RM400 (£400) like in Malaysia? Can you buy a used car for RM200-RM400 (£200-£400) in Malaysia like you can in Manchester?Yes, our problem extends to more than just the price of petrol going up 30 sen. The ringgit that you earn does not go very far in Malaysia, even if the petrol price did not increase. The cost of living in Malaysia is very high even though the quality of life is low. That is the crux of the issue. I would rather earn £2,000 in UK than RM2,000 in Malaysia. £2,000 in UK goes very, very far. In Malaysia, RM2,000 can hardly carry you through half the month.Still want to protest and demonstrate against the 30 sen increase in petrol prices? Don?t waste your time. You should instead protest the low wages. The so-called ?poverty level? that the government has come out with is utter bullshit. The government is misleading us as to what really represents poverty. If they redraw the poverty line, then most Malaysians can be considered poor. In reality, 'poverty level' is more like RM1,200. Short of that, you just can't manage, especially if you have a wife and kids.Do you want to know something the government has not told us? Bank Negara has come out with its calculation that if you retired at age 55 or 56, you will need a savings of RM2 million-RM3 million to enjoy your retirement comfortably. If not, you will still need to work. This is of course assuming you will live for another 15-20 years before you die and that you will live a modest live, not one of luxury. Yes, that?s right, RM2 million-RM3 million or RM120,000 a year if you live to age 73 or so, the average lifespan of a male Malaysian. That comes to about RM10,000 per month. But you can only play with your grandchildren and tend to your garden. If you jet-set or take sea cruises, then you will be broke within three or four years.Now, how much do we get when we retire? RM300,000? In two or three years you will be broke and will need to go find a job. This is more frightening than the 30 sen increase in petrol prices. And I bet what you are earning today hardly lasts the month -- so for sure you are not saving anything for retirement day. Well, let?s hope you get a heart attack and die before age 56. This would save you the agony of facing your old age with no money in your pocket.