A Diff Home...

KFC???Starbucks???

those are the shops which i saw...when i came back...can u believe tat??such a small place..become more and more "advance" liao...

Hmmm...i sort of miss those days..where we always go drink at Suria...or maybe Highlanders...now..it has to go drink at Starbucks..

Its nothing fancy actually..just tat..in my thoughts..i never believe that...there wil be a day..my hometown will become so "advance"..


*potatobits' owner bloggin from Starbucks... ha ha ha* "frm Junie"

no matter wat..there is stil no shopping center yet...but i doubt that this situation wil stay long..maybe the next time i come back... there might be 1..haha...

Cai Hong....

That day when i went to my friend's house,as usual...we always search those nice song's MV...and then...i came across this song...JayChou's "Caihong"

The MV is about a guy..who left a girl because he has some disease or something,at the end of this MV...when the girl finally found out about the disease..the guy already......GG..

Looking at the MV...suddenly i have a feeling....i very scare of losing Junie...i don't want to imagine a day in the future that doesn't have her...i know its kinda stupid having this thought where someday..WHAT IF anything happens to one of us??too scare to know...too scare to find out..

Dear..please promise me that nothing will happen to you...i really wan to spend the rest of my life with you de la... I will always love you and i know..the love for you will only get more day by day...I miss you so much...sorry i cant go back Wednesday...tho i really miss you..but i don't wanna miss a chance to say goodbye to Dani and Meng...i know you will surely forgive me de...hehe

OK la..i wan to go to FTZ ta kei le...
XOXOXOOOXXXXOOOOXXXOOO

We've been Tagged

Oh no... been tagged by EeVon and Sue-Li. So here's the list

8 Things I'm passionate about
1. My darling potato & the times we spent together
2. Giant block of Cadbury Chocolate
3. Anything related to potatoes (hash brown, potato chips, mash potato, etc.)
4. My laptop & internet connection (cant blame me.. its the only way I stay in contact with my darling)
5. Koko Black's chocolate drinks
6. My own home-made super 'kao' hot chocolate
7. My spoilt MP3
8. My friends


8 Things I say too often
1. i'm like . . .
2. what the . . .
3. yea la
4. damn
5. har?
6. really?
7. no!!
8. die die die

8 books I've recently read
1. Bad love
2. In flight entertainment guide
3. Peace of a river
4. Pharmacology Textbook
5. Genetics Textbook
6. Microbiology Textbook
7. Newspaper
8. Readers Digest


8 songs I could listen to over and over again
1. Rainbow by Jay Chow
2. Better Man by Robbie Williams
3. If I Let You Go by Westlife
4. Forever Love by Lee Hom Wang
5. Hate Me by Blue October
6. Because of You by Kelly Clarkson
7. Yong Qi by Fish Leong
8. Tear Drops of my Guitar by Taylor Swift


8 things I learnt for the past year
1. cook chicken chop
2. make my own version of hot chocolate
3. how to prepare proper organ bath for experiment
4. make home-made keropok
5. become an evil person
6. dissect arabidopsis
7. drugs are fun
8. learn how to blog =)

8 people I tag
I don't even know if there are 8 ppl for me to tag... sigh
1. EeVon + Sue-Li
2. Yi Yang
3. Michelle
4. Mun K
5. Fang Chin
6 - 8. I dunno liao.. ha ha

Petrol Price Part 2

This morning when i open my office mail box,i received an interesting email from my friend.Since i have been so "busy" lately,i decide to post this email as my last post about the petrol price hike thingy as i dun not wan to waste any more time to talk about something that won't change.



Tenaga stock rose by about MYR1.00. Volume traded in excess of 35 million units.Yesterday Tenaga stock was suspended.

Put these points together.

1. If you know that an announcement would be made on Wednesday that TNB rates will be revised upwards you would surely buy Tenaga shares on Tuesday.
2. If you own an investment bank or have sufficient credit line with an Investment Bank you would have bought as much as you could knowing that the price will surely go up.
3. Since you have to pay within 3 days (T+3 rule), you would have planned to sell on Friday. ?So you could have bought 1Million Tenaga shares on Tuesday and sold it today for a cool MYR1Million profit without paying any money (perhaps some borrowing costs for 2-3 days).
4. Of course none of us are privy to the announcement of the fuel hike, but the family of the PM are privy to it.
5. Of course none of us have a large credit line with an Investment Bank but the family of the PM owns an investment bank.
6. Why the surprise announcement on 05 June when the PM has said that it would be in August ? Well you can only make a big and quick profit if you control the timings and surprise others.
7. For those in the know (the powers that be and their cronies) this has been one hugely profitable week buying and shorting the related shares. The poor rakyat had to queue just to fill up their tanks and perhaps save between MYR20-MYR100.




Now read below..... Need those in know of the basic economics of crude, fuel etc to comment.

WHAT IS NEVER MENTIONED IN Mainstream Media like NST/TheStar/ Utusan/BH are these facts....

Malaysian PerCapita Income USD 5000 VS
Singaporean PerCapita Income USD 25000

Further The Star made a comparison of prices in Thailand , Singapore and Indonesia .
For Thailand it is quoted at RM3.90/liter, however are they aware that in Thailand new cars are cheaper than Malaysia by RM10,000? They pay only one life time for their driving license? No renewal fee after that? Also that goes for road tax as well? And do TheStar also aware that you can drive all the way from Hadtyai to Bangkok on a six lane highway without paying any Tolls ??!!

Whereas here in Malaysia you have to pay yearly renewal for road tax , driving license and TOLLS, TOLLS, TOLLS!!!

For Singapore how can you quote RM 5.20 ? Please quote in Singapore Dollars because they are earning in Sing Dollars. You might as well say Europeans are paying RM10/liter. RM5.20/liter = Sing $ 2.20/liter, still cheaper than Malaysia in view of fact that Singapore is not a crude oil exporter. Are you saying that you fill up petrol in Singapore by paying Ringgit?

In economy, dollar to dollar must be compared as apple to apple. Not comparing like durian in M'sia is much cheaper than durian in Japan !! Of course-lah, Japan is not durian producer!!! Comparing Malaysian durian with Thailand durian make more sense!!

For Indonesia we might say is cheaper there at RM2.07/liter but compare that to their level of income!


Now, let us compare the price with OIL PRODUCING countries:

UAE RM1.19/litre
Eygpt RM1.03/litre
Bahrain RM0.87/litre
Qatar RM0.68/litre
Kuwait RM0.67/litre
Saudi Arabia RM0.38/litre
IranRM0.35/litre
Nigeria RM0.32/litre
Turkmenistan RM0.25/litre
Venezuela RM0.16/litre
MALAYSIA RM2.70/litre


RM 2.70!!! Individual perspective:

As of last month a Toyota Vios would 'cause a damage' of about RM 89,000.
In the international market, a Toyota Vios is about USD 19,000
USD 19,000 = RM 62,700 (using the indicative rates of USD 1 = RM 3.30)
That makes Malaysian Vios owners pay an extra RM 26,300.

This RM 26,300 should be cost of operations, profit and tax because the transportation costs have been factored in to the USD 19,000.

RM 26,300/ RM625 petrol rebate per year translates to a Vios being used for 42.08 years.

I do understand that the RM 625 is a rebate given by the government, but it also means that one has to use the Vios for 42.08 years just to make back the amount paid in taxes for the usage of a foreign car. Would anyone use any kind of car for that long?

Now with these numbers in front of us, does the subsidy sound like a subsidy or does it sound like a penalty? This just seems to be a heavy increment in our daily cost of living as we are not only charged with high car taxes but also with a drastic increase in fuel price.

With all the numbers listed out, I urge all Malaysians to join me in analyzing the situation further.

Car taxation is government profit, fuel sales is Petronas' (GLC) profit which also translates into government profit. The government may ridicule us Malaysians by saying look at the world market and fuel price world wide. Please, we are Malaysians, we fought of the British, had a international port in the early centuries (Malacca), home to a racially mixed nation and WE ARE NOT STUPID!!!

We know the international rates are above the USD 130/barrel. We understand the fact that the fuel prices are increasing worldwide and we also know that major scientist are still contradicting on why this phenomenon is happening. Some blame Bush and his plunders around the world and some blame climate change and there are others which say petroleum 'wells' are getting scarce.

Again we go back to numbers to be more straight fwd

1 barrel = 159 liters x RM2.70/liter = RM 429 or USD 134

On 1 hand, we are paying the full cost of 1 barrel of crude oil with RM2.70 per liter but on the other hand the crude oil only produces 46% of fuel.

Msia sells crude oil per barrel at USD130 buys back Fuel per barrel at USD134. And not forgetting, every barrel of fuel is produced with 2 barrels of crude oil.

1 barrel crude oil = produce 46% fuel (or half of crude oil), therefore
2 barrel crude oil = approximately 1 barrel fuel
In other words, each time we sell 2 barrels of crude oil, equivalently we will buy back 1 barrel of fuel.

Financially,
Malaysiasell 2 barrel crude oil @ USD 130/barrel = USD 260 = RM 858
then, Malaysia will buy back fuel @ USD 134/barrel = RM 442/barrel
Thus, Malaysia earn net extra USD 126 = RM 416 for each 2 barrel of crude sold/exported vs imported 1 barrel of fuel !!!
(USD 260-134 = USD 126 = RM416)

So where this extra USD 126/barrel income is channeled to by Malaysian Govt???????? ?

Another analysis:

1 barrel crude oil = 159 liters.
46-47% of a barrel of crude oil = fuel that we use in our vehicles.
46% of 159 = 73.14 liters.
@ RM 2.70/liter x 73.14 liter = RM197.48 of fuel per barrel of crude oil. This is only 46% of the barrel, mind you. Using RM 3.30 = USD 1, we get that a barrel of crude oil produces USD 59.84 worth of petrol fuel (46% of 1barrel).
USD 59.84 of USD 130/barrel turns out to be 46% of a barrel as well.

Another 54% = bitumen, kerosene, and natural gases and so many more.
And this makes a balance of USD 70.16 that has not been accounted for.

So this is where I got curious. Where is the subsidy if we are paying 46% of the price of a barrel of crude oil when the production of petrol/barrel of crude oil is still only 46%?

In actual fact, we still pay for this as they are charged in the forms of fuel surcharge by airlines and road taxes for the building of road (because they use the tar/bitumen) and many more excuse charging us but let us just leave all that out of our calculations.

As far as I know, only the politicians who live in Putrajaya and come for their Parliament meetings in Kuala Lumpur (approximately 60+ km) are the ones to gain as they claim their fuel and toll charges from the money of the RAKYAT's TAX.

It is so disappointing to see this happen time and time again to the Malaysian public, where they are deceived by the propaganda held by the politicians and the controls they have over the press.

Which stupid idiot economist equates rebates for rich or poor with the cc of the vehicles? An average office clerk may own a second hand 1300cc proton Iswara costing $7,000 (rebate = $625) while the Datuk's children can own a fleet of 10 new cars of BMW, Audi and Volvo all less than 2000cc costing $2 millions and get a total rebate of $625 x 10 = $6,250! Wow what kind of economists we are keeping in Malaysia ...wonder which phD certificate that they bought from...

Misleading concept of Subsidy:

The word "subsidy" has been brandished by the BN government as if it has so generously helped the rakyat and in doing so incurred losses. This simple example will help to explain the fallacy:

Example:
Ahmad is a fisherman. He sells a fish to you at $10 which is below the market value of $15. Let's assume that he caught the fish from the abundance of the sea at little or no cost. Ahmad claims that since the market value of the fish is $15 and he sold you the fish for $10, he had subsidised you $5 and therefore made a loss of $5.

Question : Did Ahmad actually make a profit of $10 or loss of $5 which he claimed is the subsidy?

Answer:
Ahmad makes a profit of $10 which is the difference of the selling price ($10) minus the cost price ($0 since the fish was caught from the abundance of the sea). There is no subsidy as claimed by Ahmad.


The BN government claims that it is a subsidy because the oil is kept and treated as somebody else's property (you know who). By right, the oil belongs to all citizens of the country and the government is a trustee for the citizens. So as in the above simple example, the BN government cannot claim that it has subsidised the citizen!


Take care all.Hopefully this email wil helped u all more in understanding the reason behind the petrol price hike.

Part time anyone??

Wednesday morning when i was going thru my normal routine opening facebook, soccernet and also the Star newspaper.... i found one of the news which is quite interesting..

Part time JOBS



The Gov is suggesting civil servants to take up part time jobs in order to encounter the rising living fees because of the recent petrol price hike. . it makes me wonder..who should we thanked for starting the tread?? Is it YOU our dearest BN??? Now, we no longer enjoy the luxury of resting during our weekends, or spend time with our beloved family, we've gotta move our tired butts off the chair and start looking for a freaking part time job to earn some extras for our miserable pockets...

RAKYAT is suffering and you are enjoying spending the money which DOES NOT belong to you... So STOP wasting money and make good use of the profits that our country earn.We dun need a submarine, jet or a super duper big luxury stadium like those in England... what we NEED is something which can help to EASE our life. Who cares if we have the best badminton players for the next 10 years when all of us are suffering such stupid lifestyle... =.="


Sometimes,even i dun know whether how much better is the Opposition or how much can they be trusted. But by judging the way YOU are handling the country now...i guess..i rather trust a stranger rather than my dearest BN who have ruled us for the past 50 years..i dun know how true the so-called "roll back fuel price or HE stepped down" rumours can be trusted, but at least he will try (I hope, I guess).

And again i remind u all, Malaysia is an oil producing country, therefore it is IMPOSSIBLE the profits that we have earn all these years cant be used to cover our fuel subsidies..

Think of it like this...

Increase in world market oil price = increase in selling price
How much we sell >> How much we buy

We sell MORE petroleum out than buying them.... (for God sake -.-")

You can do the rest of the calculations on the profits we earned. So my friends.... THINK ... THINK... THINK!!!

Petrol Price to be reviewed??..my @ss la PART 1

On 6th June..Malaysia experience another major chaos in its 51 years of history because our dear blind Prime Minister decided that our government can no longer subsidies the current petrol price in our country because of the hiking petrol price in the world market (USD 136.65 per barrel as per today 9th June) that is currently happening (for no apparent reason "NO THANKS" to the US...)




I was reading Tun Dr Mahathir's blog the other day and found a comment which is really sad and touching as a man wrote about the impact of the increase in fuel price and how it has "changed" his family's fate. READ WHAT THE GUY SAID.


" saya yg paling terkena bila minyak naik ni....ini disebabkan saya berulang alik dari cyberjaya ke melaka. Skrang ni pun belanja minyak + tol saya pi keje rm 1000 sebulan....itu minyak harga rm1.92 je....aku rasa klu dengan rate skrang ni rm 2.70 mau kat rm 1500 untuk minyak kereta je!!!! kerajaan bg subsidi rm625 setahun tu cuma belanja minyak saya setengah bulan. isteri saya pun x sanggup tgk saya sakit poket ujung bulan, malam tadi beliau buat keputusan untuk berenti belajar. dan kami akan pindah balik ke Seri Kembangan ujung bulan ni. Satu keputusan yg amat menyedihkan, tapi kami terpaksa menerimanya. Nak duduk asrama, anak saya nak letak mana pula...tak terjaga. Satu keluarga menangis mlm tadi. isteri nangis sebab dia kena berenti belajar, saya nangis sebab terharu dengan keputusan isteri, anak aku nangis sebab tgk mak ayah dia nangis...terima kasih kerajaan malaysia.... Untuk keluarga yg One Man income mcm saya ni, sure banyak effek... Tariff elekrik pun akan naik tidak lama lagi, berikutan diesel naik rm 1.....ahhh...malas nak pk apa lagi yg akan naik...."


After reading this story, I felt that, not only will my wallet gonna get "thinner", but some ppl's life might also get "thinner". Try putting yourself in that man's shoes. What will you do??

What makes me really upset about the petrol price is... we are an oil-producing country and yet... why cant we enjoy a low petrol price?? What really pisses me off today is the post I read from Rojaks Daily. I found a chart... comparing to other oil producing countries... our country's petrol is the MOST EXPENSIVE among all... at a freaking price of RM 2.70 per liter !!!!

Look no further, the chart below shows it all... ENJOY!!

As you can see... even Nigeria, where ppl are suffering from starvation and poverty are able to enjoy low fuel price at RM0.32/liter compared to our RM 2.70/liter!! I really don't understand why is this happening. WHY?!?!?!

And the funniest thing was about the article in The Star mentioning that our dear Petronas is going to bust by 2018 (1o years from now) if they keep on giving their profit away to invest back into our government. Can you believe that crap??

HELLO PETRONAS!!...IF YOU ARE SO POOR, DON'T GO SPEND MILLIONS OR MAYBE BILLIONS TO SPONSOR FOR THE F1 RACES, DUN KNOW WHAT WHAT CHAMPIONSHIPS, THIS RACE, THAT RACE . . . (ALMOST ALL THE RACES IN THE WORLD GOTTA DO WITH PETRONAS). =.=" DON'T PRETEND TO BE POOR WHEN MILLIONS OR MAYBE BILLIONS OF RINGGIT ARE WASTED ON SUCH THINGS WHICH IS NO DIFFERENT TO "THROWING THESE MONEY INTO THE SEA". =.="




Arrrgh . . . too angry to continue... will continue part 2 (when I've cool down)

Bl**dy MPSJ

Tho i m staying in PJ,but going to Subang has been part of my life since i came down to the city,
well,..its because all my friends whom i known since i came down are "based" there.

To those who are familiar to the Subang area,i m sure that u all have heard before about the food court called Asia Cafe.I m sure Inti,Taylor students will definitely know where the heck is Asia Cafe as it is opposite the colleges there.


Anyway..i m not here to intro that 2 "cheap" college nor the Food court.

As those who know me,i LOVE gaming...really really love GAMING..even Junie also said that the game that i always played(DOTA) has become my second wife..sometimes more important than her..= =""'(where can compare one??)

One of the biggest attraction at Subang ss15 is the FTZ cyber cafe.That's where i always "pow" with my friends..hehehe...well..its a big CC with a LOTSSSSSSSSSS of comp...when i mean a lot...it is...400++ pcs...2 stories of building.....isn't tat big for just a cyber cafe>??haha(big leh..i m sure you all sure say----->WAHHHHHHHHHH!!!)




DAY 1

On a beautiful night on the 17th of May..something happened to FTZ..and it was like the scariest thing that ever happened there..GUESS what.....

MPSJ CAME AND RAPE RAID US

can u believe tat??some more come at 2 am...when we all "song song" killing..especially me...i was using "Magnus"(one of the most ownage hero...)i was about to start "owning" in the game..and here comes the @#$%@#$ MPSJ to rape RAID us. making all the people there no choice but to leave the cyber cafe..(really boh song leh..)


Well...FTZ reopens upstairs after the MPSJ people left....and i continue to play..till morning..hehehe



DAY 2


Then..the next day,...i went over to FTZ at 11pm++..only to find out...the BL**DY MPSJ came and rape raid and close the cyber at 8pm earlier..then..i called my friends@kakis to find out where they playing now..the told me..they went to the new Cyber cafe opposite Sunway College.i quickly drove over to meet them..and ask for a pc to start playing game...

Within 1 hour of game..

MPSJ CAME AND RAPE RAID US AGAIN!!

!@#$%^@#$%

how can you "tahan" such ppl come and rape raid all the Cyber cafes around the Subang..Oh no...well at least this time i dont have to pay for the 1 hour i played earlier..haha...pity my friends cuz they came in 15 mins ago,and took the 5 hours package..(he didnt get the refund back)...lol..

Day 3

It has been few days since i played dota in subang..and the only cc that is open is JS...JS is smart all along cuz after 12 they usually close the front door...and leave the back door open for ppl to come in and out..haha..this is how they manage to cheat their way when the MPSJ raid a few days ago...

after an hour waiting for pc...finally i got 1 pc..i quickly join game...and wait for the other players to join so tat the game can be started...

suddenly.....



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all lights were closed including the comps...i was about to start the game..why is this happening to me???haiz...only later that i found out...

MPSJ CAME AND RAPE RAID US AGAIN!!

CAN U BELIEVE THAT??

3 times in a week....oh gosh......there goes my week...pretty interesting huh??wakakaka

Now tat FTZ is back in business...but it can only open from 8am-12 am....kinda sad right??there goes my night life...z z z zz z

Exams exams

It is the time of the year again when everybody has to cramp their brains with thousands and thousands of facts, all for the sake of the 2 or 3 hours papers that we're gonna sit and write our brain, hands and heart out. Not to mention, we're killing lots of our poor brain cells and nerves cells, and aching our neck, back, hand, finger muscles as well as our buttock muscles from sitting 3 hours in the exam hall... sigh~~

Found this cool video. Might be able to help those that are preparing for exams. I so wanna cheat this way, if only I have a scanner and a super cool printer to help me with it. Sigh... nonetheless, I'm not a huge fan of Coca Cola, so it wouldn't not really work in my case =)

Enjoy!! And good luck to those who are preparing for exams.... like me :(
Ciao~