endroog

I just realised that I sit a lot in a day.

After waking up every morning, I’ll sit on the throne for big business before shower. After that, I would sit at the dining table for breakfast. Then I would sit in the car driving to work. Sitting in a traffic jam is very likely. When I reach office, I’ll be sitting in front of the computer tapping on the keyboard doing reports. If there’s no new assignment, I’ll be in the office, sitting at my desk.

Then when lunch time comes, I’ll be sitting in a restaurant with colleagues. After lunch, work continues at the desk. I’ll be sitting till 5-6pm. In between, maybe going to the toilet and coffee machine will have me walking for a while.

At about 6pm, when I leave the office, I’ll be sitting in a traffic jam. This will take at least 1 hour before reaching home. By the time I reach dinner place, it will be dinner time and straight I go and sit at the dining table. After dinner, I’ll spend sometime reading The Star newspaper. Again I’ll be sitting on the sofa. Then I’ll drive home (sitting in the car). Once home, I’ll be sitting on the throne for the evening business. Magazine or The Sun newspaper will be read while sitting on the throne.

After business and shower, I’ll sit on the sofa in front of the idiot box…or sometimes in front of the laptop computer surfing Internet. Sometimes, read something on the sofa.

Then off I go to bed. Maybe I should do some sit-ups before bedtime.

Maybe it’s time to read newspaper standing. Watch TV standing.

The buggers sent me a very vague reply to entertain me… and notice, there’s no signatory name. They’re afraid to put their name.

THEY HAVE NOT ADDRESSED THE REAL QUESTIONS:

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Tuan/Puan,

Kami dengan hormatnya merujuk kepada emel tuan/puan mengenai perkara di atas.

Untuk makluman, pada masa ini, unit Amanah Saham 1Malaysia (AS1M) bagi kuota kaum Cina telah habis dilanggan. Walaubagaimanapun, dari masa ke semasa, sekiranya ada terdapat unit yang dijual balik oleh pemegang unit sediada, unit berkenaan boleh dilanggan oleh pelanggan lain.

Pemegang unit boleh membuat semakan unit sediada di mana-mana Pejabat ASNB atau Ejen-ejen ASNB (Maybank, CIMB Bank, RHB Bank atau Pejabat Pos) yang berhampiran.

Selain dari itu, sekiranya tuan/puan berminat untuk melabur di dalam unit amanah ASNB yang lain, dana yang masih lagi ada ialah seperti berikut:

Amanah Saham Nasional 3 Imbang (ASN 3)
Amanah Saham Gemilang (ASG)

Sekiranya tuan/puan memerlukan sebarang maklumat lanjut, sila hubungi kami di 03-2057 3000 atau layari laman web kami di www.asnb.com.my.

Sekian, terima kasih.

Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad

One of the reason why housing is so expensive in urban area is because of the shitty public transportation that we have. The nightmare of having to commute to work everyday for at least 3 hours on the road will put off a lot of people. Therefore they are maximising the land use around the urban and suburban area with high-density apartments and flats. No matter how many blocks of apartment or condominium you build, there’ll always be demand and got snapped up in a relatively short time… most of the time by investors who wanna flip and make money.

If the public transport is good, there’ll be less traffic jam and I can opt to stay further out of KL i.e. Shah Alam, Klang, Rawang, Putrajaya, Cyberjaya etc. because I can travel to work with the daily traffic nightmare.

Everyone wants to stay around town so that they can cut short travel time (with traffic jam included) and this demand has drove up the house prices in urban areas. So, at the end of the day, it comes back to public transportation.

But if public transport is improved, car sales will drop for all carmakers in Malaysia and this MAY cause Proton to go bankrupt when other carmakers slash prices to boost sales . National pride will be affected there. Then consumption of fuel will also drop…. less profit for Petronas. Again, national pride will be affected. Then there will be no more reason to build highways anymore. As you can see, highways doesn’t solve the traffic jam problem. It only make it a lil bit more convenient to travel. WE NEED TO TAKE THE CARS OFF THE ROAD. THE SAME AMOUNT OF CARS OR MORE WILL NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

I think it’s all inter-related. The taxes and profits (direct or indirect) and perhaps some carrots they get from transportation related industries i.e. vehicle taxes, AP, oil, rubber etc makes it better off than implementing good public transports.

RIP to Whitney Houston… the undoubtedly Queen of Love. Most of her songs are about “love”… and what a coincidence with the Valentine’s love season.

So here’s my favourite Whitney Houston song for you all parents and parents-to-be out there:

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I believe the children are our are future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be
Everybody searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone who fulfill my needs
A lonely place to be
So I learned to depend on me

[Chorus]
I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone’s shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I’ll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can’t take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be

[Chorus]

And if by chance, that special place
That you’ve been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love

Tuan,

Nama Ahli: endroo G

No. KP: 880208-14-8888
No Telefon: 012-3456789 No Ahli: 088888888

Merujuk perkara di atas, saya ingin membuat pertanyaan tentang menambah bilangan unit (top up funds) untuk pelaburan Amanah Saham 1Malaysia.

Saya difahamkan oleh cawangan ejen syarikat anda iaitu Maybank, bahawa unit yang diperuntukan untuk rakyat yang berbangsa Cina sudah habis manakala unit untuk rakyat berbangsa Melayu, India dan lain-lain bangsa masih ada banyak dan boleh “dibeli” serta-merta. Sebagai seorang rakyat Malaysia keturunan Cina yang menetap di tanahair ini, saya difahamkan oleh pegawai di cawangan bank tersebut bahawa saya tidak dapat menambah pelaburan saya buat masa ini. Saya juga digalakkan untuk mengunjungi cawangan ejen AS1M terdekat pada setiap hari (jika boleh) untuk mencuba nasib.

Ini menimbulkan satu persoalan iaitu: adakah Amanah Saham 1Malaysia betul-betul untuk kebaikkan rakyat Malaysia sejagat? Mana perginya semangat 1Malaysia dimana kelayakkan tidak dilihat dari segi bangsa seseorang?!

Saya berharap kemusykilan ini dapat dijelaskan. Sekian terima kasih.

Yang benar,

endroo G

I had a dream yesterday. I was smuggling some cash and was caught at an airport. The officers found a stack of cash in my pocket and confiscated the money.

I was then brought to a detention room with other offenders. While waiting in the room, I was thinking of ways to clear myself of the charges. Some familiar faces were in the detained in the room too… could remember who are they, could be colleagues or friends.

Then there is this door in the room and it was partially opened. I peeked through the door and saw a ghost/imp and I was frightened like mad. I shouted “Arrrgghhhhhhh uuurrrhhhhhhharrrggghhhhhhh…” and suddenly Szer woke me up from my sleep.

Gosh. I was sweating like hell.

Its my birdday again… and I’m happy to have the best present of all… Bubu G. Well, I also got a G-shock Mudman watch from my wife…something I’d always wanted since the schooling days. Haha.

All beloved family members are around to celebrate the CNY.  Happy to be able to keep in touch with a bunch of school friends till now and hope it’ll be for the years to come. Hope our kids will play together in future.

Can’t wait for the arrival of the baby and very soon I can continue to travel for holidays…. hopefully I can cover Bali, Krabi and Siem Reap this year.