We watched 2 episodes of this last night. Like the hubby says, it's been a long time since he's watched such a good TVB drama. It's full of drama (duh), really. I can't wait to go home tonight to watch more! Actually, I can't wait for the weekend when I can do a TVB-marathon! (like so free liddat) :D
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Moonlight Resonance
We watched 2 episodes of this last night. Like the hubby says, it's been a long time since he's watched such a good TVB drama. It's full of drama (duh), really. I can't wait to go home tonight to watch more! Actually, I can't wait for the weekend when I can do a TVB-marathon! (like so free liddat) :D
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Review fuel prices every 15 days??! You know, as a non-policy-maker, I sure have a lot to say about those actual policy makers. Are they dumb or what? Either you make the petrol prices run at market prices OR you fix it properly. I DO NOT want to be caught in a petrol-hike and fuel-guzzling jam EVERY 15 DAYS!
And can you believe that the moron who suggested this 15-day review is someone who's looking to lead the Chinese component in the ruling party? He seems to think he did us a favour!
On the opposite end, someone actually thought threatening us would make us stop complaining. Hah! The Sunday papers sure are a joke. If people didn't have to work so hard to feed themselves, I'm sure smarter people would be running our government.
And can you believe that the moron who suggested this 15-day review is someone who's looking to lead the Chinese component in the ruling party? He seems to think he did us a favour!
On the opposite end, someone actually thought threatening us would make us stop complaining. Hah! The Sunday papers sure are a joke. If people didn't have to work so hard to feed themselves, I'm sure smarter people would be running our government.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Petrol in the news, again!
Gosh, our PM is proving to be a compulsive liar! Petrol price will be reduced to RM2.55 per litre starting tomorrow (I presume it'll be in a couple of hours at midnight). And our dear PM (and his Ministers) repeatedly told us the past couple of weeks that they'll revise it down on August 31st (or is it 29th, I forget, too many dates being published in the paper these days).
Today, after announcing a 26-year high inflation rate of 8.5% (26-year high out of 51 years!), he tries to cushion the blow and say we get a present of reduced petrol prices because he understands the plight of the rakyat in these challenging times. Like hellooo ... inflation went sky high only because he pushed up petrol prices so drastically in June!
See, our PM was so shortsighted to not have foreseen market oil prices would go down. Okay la, people in the street like us don't know about how market oil prices work. But you'd assume a country's HEAD would have intelligence to advise him on whether pushing the burden of petrol prices onto his citizens was a right step or not. Obviously he's either not very intelligent or his intelligence wasn't intelligent enough, since immediately after that oil prices went dipping dipping down down (and meanwhile, the government's cash register kept ringing in the windfall income). So, his shortsightedness caused sky-high record inflation rates immediately after he pushed petrol prices up. Smart. Our dear PM caused companies to suddenly incur extra costs and caused living expenses in the country to suddenly increase - apparently for no reason at all except to break a 26-year record of inflation rates.
Now he reduces petrol price a few days before the mother-of-all-by-elections. Doesn't take a genius to see the obvious connection here.
I think if he could, he'd even bring forward the Budget announcement and put in all kinds of goodies "to reduce the burden of the rakyat" - if it ensured he retained his seat as PM til his planned retirement.
Dear Datuk, please realize that your PR ploy of riding on the trains brings you no brownie points, merely emphasizes what you should have and could have done when it mattered most. To be fair, whatever you do now will just be too little too late, and will be criticized to no end by most. Just go with dignity - the earlier, the lesser mistakes you'll make, the less criticisms you'll take, the better.
(And on that note, I hope too, whoever goes up into that hot seat, will have good economic sense and have a love for Red Bull to be able to last thru briefings and meetings).
Today, after announcing a 26-year high inflation rate of 8.5% (26-year high out of 51 years!), he tries to cushion the blow and say we get a present of reduced petrol prices because he understands the plight of the rakyat in these challenging times. Like hellooo ... inflation went sky high only because he pushed up petrol prices so drastically in June!
See, our PM was so shortsighted to not have foreseen market oil prices would go down. Okay la, people in the street like us don't know about how market oil prices work. But you'd assume a country's HEAD would have intelligence to advise him on whether pushing the burden of petrol prices onto his citizens was a right step or not. Obviously he's either not very intelligent or his intelligence wasn't intelligent enough, since immediately after that oil prices went dipping dipping down down (and meanwhile, the government's cash register kept ringing in the windfall income). So, his shortsightedness caused sky-high record inflation rates immediately after he pushed petrol prices up. Smart. Our dear PM caused companies to suddenly incur extra costs and caused living expenses in the country to suddenly increase - apparently for no reason at all except to break a 26-year record of inflation rates.
Now he reduces petrol price a few days before the mother-of-all-by-elections. Doesn't take a genius to see the obvious connection here.
I think if he could, he'd even bring forward the Budget announcement and put in all kinds of goodies "to reduce the burden of the rakyat" - if it ensured he retained his seat as PM til his planned retirement.
Dear Datuk, please realize that your PR ploy of riding on the trains brings you no brownie points, merely emphasizes what you should have and could have done when it mattered most. To be fair, whatever you do now will just be too little too late, and will be criticized to no end by most. Just go with dignity - the earlier, the lesser mistakes you'll make, the less criticisms you'll take, the better.
(And on that note, I hope too, whoever goes up into that hot seat, will have good economic sense and have a love for Red Bull to be able to last thru briefings and meetings).
Panda's coming to town?!
When I read this headlines in The Star : "Panda for Zoo Negara", I was horrified.One of my future plans (in the unforeseeable future, but planned, nonetheless), is to visit pandas in their natural habitat (not in the zoo) in China. I think they look like real adorable creatures - and this has nothing to do with Kungfu Panda ok.
So, I should be elated they're gonna be in the neighbourhood, right?
Not exactly. Having heard stories about how our National Zoo is run and in what state it's in (although I have no way of verifying the stories unless I go and see for myself, but no way am I paying to enter a zoo with animals-who-are-not-there), I quite believe that the Chinese pandas will not be very happy here.
Please please, I hope the pandas don't come to our zoo. And if somehow or other, some moron actually approves of the pandas coming here, I pray and hope the pandas are hardy and strong-willed ones who will be able to defy all the odds of animals who have ended up in that sorry place in Ukay.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Swimming seems to be the sport to watch these days, with world records falling left right centre everyday.
A colleague said, "It's amazing. Our whole country's aiming for just one medal, any medal would do. And here's this one guy aiming for 8 gold medals for himself alone." Doesn't this just put so much perspective as to where our country's headed?
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