I would like to thank the highways concessionaires for giving motorists a very conniving toll-free travel and discounts during the CNY! And to think that they have all you motorists at heart! 
I would like to thank the highways concessionaires for giving motorists a very conniving toll-free travel and discounts during the CNY! And to think that they have all you motorists at heart! 

You must not forget that NOT all motorists are able to drive in the wee hours of the mornings.You must be ever ready to anticipate any unforseen circumstances when you're on the roads during that time. I wonder how many of us are 'night drivers' especially on highways.

For the 'weaker sex' drivers my advice to you; DO NOT drive during the night. What would happen if your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere? You might encounter many undesirable creatures! If this scenario actually happens, then you would be really 'taken for a ride'! 

Better safe than sorry! The discounts or toll-free travel during the night is not worth it! Just take extra precaution and observe the traffic rules while driving during the day and make sure you arrive safely at your destination
You must not forget that NOT all motorists are able to drive in the wee hours of the mornings.You must be ever ready to anticipate any unforseen circumstances when you're on the roads during that time. I wonder how many of us are 'night drivers' especially on highways.

For the 'weaker sex' drivers my advice to you; DO NOT drive during the night. What would happen if your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere? You might encounter many undesirable creatures! If this scenario actually happens, then you would be really 'taken for a ride'! 

Better safe than sorry! The discounts or toll-free travel during the night is not worth it! Just take extra precaution and observe the traffic rules while driving during the day and make sure you arrive safely at your destination

Reading bout the tiger attack on the orang asli, at first glance,one would sympathise with the "victim" but the sympathy should have been to the real "victim" in this case,the tiger !!!
Kudos for the authorities for taking the step in investigating the claim by the orang asli and broke the case which shed light on the true"victim".
Shame on those who claim to be the children of the land and who often accuses outsiders for depleting their livelihood  now that the truth is out.
For the greed of material things,they would plunder their own"home".For the greed of material things they would do the devil's bidding. For so long,many have been fooled by their sympathetic plights,even foreigners start to believe that they are being victimised by outsiders.
I guess the truth is,they no longer hunt for food but to profit from selling exotic food !!!! and their greed depleted their own resources for they take every animal big or small as long as they can make a quick buck !!!!!
No more will i sympathise with these kind for they are killers of the worse kinds !!!!!

Najib cautioned that domestic investment has been falling over the years and this needed to be reversed.

He also said government-linked companies (GLCs) tended to work on their own and there was less interaction with the private sector.

“I believe greater interaction is in order for our GLCs to connect with the private sector,” he said, adding that the Government and business community should pool their intellectual resources and chart a course which would enable the country to become a dynamic and forward-looking nation.

He added that while the Government would continue to adopt a spirit of openness in its policy formulation, it still did not have all the answers.

Great 1MY PM of BN, technically speaking your logics in your speech were correct. Overly dependant on sustenance from government is detrimental to overall operation of system.

But maybe, you maybe forgotten on your some AGM speeches, some people still needs the tongkat to live. So in this case, how do you balance the restructuring and at the same time providing more tongkats.

Secondly, I believe you've understated GLC's failures. Many GLC has ran into problem financially which cause a high deficit on the government.

Mostly, BN Government DISTORTED/BIASED/CRONIES base NEP wealth sharing has made subsidies too the biggest problem.

Over providence onto ASW/ASB which cause an inflated pool of fund, not actually worth the returns (just pump more cash).

Excessive subsidies on non-performing entreprenuial companies which does not reflect real market demand, ie: MSC status that produce nothing significant in technology.

So, before BN government worries about Petrol, Sugar, Rice, Salt and Cooking Oil subsidies, maybe they need to check why our Rice production still so low, why we need so much sugar, how come Petrol Producing nation cant afford to subsidies petrol and palm oil growing countries not able to subsidies palm oil cooking.

Basically it boils down to, poor administration, poor standards of qualification and too many mono ethnic presence in regulating ministries and low standards of knowledge train by local Universities.

Dear The Star

I am just so tired of reading so many unpleasant nauseating news daily, I just cant read the papers anymore....

I want to lead a healthy life, hence nourishing our minds with pleasant, beneficial, happy reading materials would do plenty of good to our body soul and mind......would you be just so kind to publish more good news please

please....if you can make it your goal to always print good news on the front page and subsequent first few pages and leave the not so good news for later reading, give us a good start to the day, you can make a difference! 

if its something important that the Nation must know like an epidemic or Natural Disaster that will equip and educate people to be cautious, save lives, by all means please print these on the front page, but not news that is not worthy of our attention.

be brave to be different, people would still buy and read your papers, try it, your sales may double simply because you will make people feel good first thing in the morning, be our 'bright morning star'

be The Star, The Feel Good Newspaper!

Thank you

Dewberry Sunshine

D-Day in Perak MB vs MB case on Tuesday

Its black tuesday. Cowardice triumphs over justice. Black clouds have been hovering over this state for the last one year. No light will shine at the end of the tunnel as long as no light bulbs go off in their heads to do justice. Pity!

The latest hype in our education system is the so-called 'high performance schools"(HPS). Only 20 schools have been selected and branded HPS out of thousands of schools nationwide.

The Ed. ministry are ever so keen on naming and branding so much so that it has always leads to SEGREGATING. If there are high performing schools then surely they must be telling us that the rest of our schools are low performing or non performing. Prior to this they had come up with brand names such as Bestari , Smart schools, Integrated schools. It thus goes without saying that the rest are "stupid schools", and "non-intregrated schools".

Only a handful of schools and students are in this selected "high performing" group, and the ministry insists on giving more and more emphasis on these students and schools to excel further.  What kind of programs are in place for the rest? Why are there LESS emphasis on improving the non performing ones ? Those selected few who are already branded as high performing needs no extra help to excel further.

Since they are so bent on BRANDING and SEGREGATING schools and people into this and that group, will we ever see a "1malaysia school" where the hype of promoting unity and equality, and "education for all" is truthfully implemented?

The best teachers should be sent to teach in the lowest performing schools, mostly in the rural areas. Of course this is a nightmare for all teachers. So perhaps the government should be walking the talk about implementing the "education for all" . Provide these schools with the necessary physical and social infrastructure, with ICT infrastructure such as computers and broadband that will allow the learning and teaching processes to take place effectively. The so-called learned people who formulate our education policies should know this already! After all they were from the "high performing" batch of people, or are they?
 

How the Home Minister goes about doing his job is something I find difficult to understand. First, he warned the nasi kandar bosses and then the chinese towkays of the imminent 'swoop' to flush out the illegals after the Chinese New Year.

Telling the non-Malays or was that giving a piece of his mind to them was very unprofessional. Why does he pick only on a certain group of people? Are these people the only culprits? Has the HM really done his homework?

There are many illegal colonies everywhere in this country. Some of our people with 'authority and power' thrive on these illegals! Without these illegals, they (some authorities) cannot 'cari makan'.

Even in the kampungs we find illegals hired by villagers!

NEWS: Malaysians to be affected by tighter Aussie skilled migration scheme
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/2/9/nation/5637869&sec=nation

No matter what the change of other countries' immigration policy, it is still easir to apply permanent residency in Australia and any other countries than Malaysia.

Foreign countries' immigration practices no bias towards any applicants - any ethnic, religion, gender, background, etc.

It is based on the skills you have and the skills they need.

NEWS: Motorists to enjoy toll-free and discounts during CNY period.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/2/9/nation/5641237&sec=nation
Tuesday February 9, 2010

 

The government is now offering free and discounted toll while on festive season.

We always remember that everytime the toll wanted to increase its fare, the government said there's nothing much they can do as the government are bounded by contracts with the highway companies like North-South Highway (PLUS), Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong (LDP), Sprint Highway, New Pantai Highway (NPE), Putrajaya Highway, Duke Highway, Kesas Highway, Silk Highway and Besraya Highway.

But now amazingly, the government can control their prices. Or so-called instruct the companies to offer discounts. It is very absurb to me. Lame excuses.

From Yahoo and The Huffington Post today... Is this a new art teleprompter or some term as telepalmer...?

During Australia Day on 26th January 2010, Australians woke up to the front page headline of a nationwide poll findings. The poll asked Australians a variety of questions from everyday stuffs like work, schooling, public transportation etc to migration laws.  The findings on migration questions suggested that:

1) Australians want tighter immigration laws to the point that many supported the idea that we should stop taking in migrants.

And the interesting part is:

2) More than half of those who had MIGRATED to Australia agreed with this opinion.

To be honest with you, I am one of those who agreed to tightening of migration laws and to limit the amount of migrants entering Australia.

Why?

Because I am a tax payer and having to earn 6 figure salary meant that a HUGE chunk of my salary goes to tax. Australia easily rank 2nd or 3rd in the world in tax contributions. Therefore, I am concerned on how the government is spending tax payer monies and how those who are entering Australia will be spending or contributing to tax payer monies. I am concerned on how unskilled migrants and the over-abundance of skilled migrants (in certain areas) will overload our public systems (eg: MediCare, education etc). I would like to enjoy the fruits of my labour in old age when I will be claiming from the government for my medical expenses and retirement expenses and do not want to have those monies deducted because I have to support the over-abundance of migrants who ended up claiming from the public system.

In short, I would like to see more quality than quantity. If we are to import migrants, do it to fill vancancies. Therefore, I am all for the new stand of "filling demands".

Currently, there is great need for healthcare and medical professionals (a field I myself am in), certain engineering professions (not all, eg: we have lots of IT and computer engineers already, so not needed here) and mining professionals (due to the increasing contribution of mining to Australia's economy).

With regards to healthcare and medical professionals, the need is focused in rural areas (where most Aussies will not go to work) and not in metropolitan areas. Application to work in rural areas is most welcomed! In fact, I would like to make it a requirement for health professionals that they should honour their work contract for at least 2-3 years before they can qualify to apply for PR here. This is to ensure they do not work for a few months or a year and then take off to metropolitan areas where there is adequate amounts of health professionals working. This will also ensure the health demands in rural areas are well taken cared of.

This is the reality of those living in Australia now. Sorry Malaysians, but we must take care of our own country first. We must ensure that our future and future generation can benefit from what we had invested into the community and if you want to be part of us, then make sure you can contribute and not become a burden to our public system. Quality over quantity.

With regards to Msia's "bran drain" problem, maybe Msia can learn a thing or two from Australians on how to manage the type of ppl you want as citizens. Starting a points system is possibly a good way to start.... but hang on, the last I check, the Msian government does not believe in meritocracy. Too bad.

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Let me share with you a tale of two persons,

‘Mr. Famous’ and ‘Mr. Fame-less’.

 

Mr. Famous always have many followers while

Mr. Fame-less often follows someone.

 Famous could make a blunder and calls it: “It’s just a small mistake,” while Fame-less attempts to correct a silly mistake and it can turn out to be a laughing stock.

 

Famous often gets priority while Fame-less sometimes treated cruelly. Famous may say something nasty and later turns around and say: “Oh! It was just a slip of tongue.” Well, Fame-less could voice out his rights but he could be slammed with a warning: “Watch your tongue!”

 

Anyway, the morale of the story is,

Mr. Famous may not be always right and

Mr. Fame-less is not always wrong.

 

Whether you are famous or fame-less, that doesn’t matter.

What matters most is, will you be a honorable person

by standing tall in righteousness and condemning all injustice?

 

The end.

 

Kumar.B

 

Malaysia must man up, subsidies on the way out...

Malaysia must be prepared to face the removal of subsidies if it wants to become a more competitive country, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said. 

“No one should be marginalised under the 1Malaysia sun,” he added.     The Star.

Dear PM,

In fact, Malaysia's economy has been stagnant since 1997, more than a decade.

A fresh university graduate earned about RM1,500 a month then. A fresh university graduate earns about the same amount now, even though the money is much smaller now 12 years later, taking inflation into consideration. A cup of coffee costs more . A plate of chicken rice costs more. Income remains stagnant.

On top of that, his expenses have gone up.

In 1997, he did not have to worry about handphone bills. Now he has to foot handphone bills since the handphone has become a necessity. In 1997, he did not have to pay much for Internet services, but now, he has to dig out money for broadband, which is also considered a necessity to a university graduate if he wants to keep up with knowledge. The lifestyle now necessitates certain expenses which were not there 12 years ago, but are considered a necessity now.

Urban dwellers are now like a piece of moist cloth being squeeze for water. The moist cloth is fast becoming dry and still there is relentless effort to squeeze it drier; any drier, however, and the cloth will be full of irreparable holes.

Drier Citizen

P.S. Why not remove subsidy in NEP...“No one should be marginalised under the 1Malaysia sun,”