Music video of The Grasshopper Song, by Korean pop group Sunny Hill. The song questions the moral lesson behind (ancient Greek writer) Aesop’s fable, The Ant and the Grasshopper [wiki], by wondering whether the hardworking ant was truly happy and whether the grasshopper really ended up being miserable…

Interesting point of view, especially in Korean context as Korean folks are often mentioned as overworked. Debatable in most cases though, as it becomes problematic when there are too many grasshoppers, living nonchalantly in good times but whined that others have not done enough for them during crisis. Decent song regardless.

Sunny Hill – The Grasshopper Song music video from YeinJee's Asian Blog

亂象生、妖孽起、國將亡乎？

但是華仔不是劉德華。

話說馬來西亞的國產賀歲片《阿炳心想事成》的導演華仔（原來他叫 Silver）看不順眼大家對首映禮時請了首相夫人及她的夫君到場的種種責難而開腔控訴：

“首相出不出席与政治无关，那些人喜欢批评，显然不喜欢大马，所以可(以)考虑移民，政府如此支持本地中文电影，应该觉得很光荣，所以不明白这些人的用意(思)是什么?”

顯然的，不是每個導演都是有家教的。

馬來文有一句話叫: Kurang Aja 估計就是說他這種沒甚麼教養的人。要一個沒教養的人道歉就有點像要那個土權老狗道歉這樣，不要也罷。

本來我因為有朋友在片子裡擔綱演出，給她面子，沒說甚麼。但是看到這華仔的狗樣也真的讓我怒吼：杯葛電影吧！

The Election Commission (EC) should recognise that the Local Government Elections Act 1960 (Act 473) has been revised in 1991 and constitutes the sole and only proper law relating to the election of local councillors. For this reason, the Penang state government is taking a progressive step-by-step approach towards removing all legal impediments preventing the conduct of local government elections by the EC.

One of the steps that is being taken is the instruction by the Penang State Government to the Penang State Legal Adviser to issue a gazette notification exempting local authorities in Penang from section 15 of the Local Government Act 1976 as a precursor to seeking a court declaration to compel the Election Commission to conduct local government elections.

The EC Chairman, Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof, has said that he is confused by the Penang State Government’s intention to bring to the Courts the issue of the State’s right to ask the Election Commission to conduct local government elections to the local authorities in Penang. On 4 March 2010, I wrote to the Election Commission asking it to conduct local government elections to the MPPP and MPSP exercising the state powers under Article 113(4) of the Federal Constitution, but the Election Commission also refused. Article 113(4) states,
“Federal or State law may authorise the Election Commission to conduct election other than those referred to in Clause (1).”
On 12 March 2010, I also wrote to the Prime Minister offering to meet with him to discuss the State Government’s position but again received no response.

I can confirm that the EC Chairman wrote a long letter to me on 23 March 2010 setting out the Federal Government’s claim that local government elections are not possible because section 15 of the Local Government Act 1976 (Act 171) had caused the Local Government Elections Act to be of no force and effect. This is the very reason why the state government is gazetting notification exempting local authorities in Penang from section 15 of the Local Government Act 1976

The EC Chairman and the Federal Government have also sidestepped the crux of this issue, namely that the Local Government Elections Act was never repealed and was in fact revised in 1991. According to section 10(2) of the Revision of Laws Act 1968 (Act 1), a revised law “shall be deemed to be and shall be without any question whatsoever in all courts and for all purposes whatsoever the sole and only proper law in respect of matters included in it and in force on that date”.

Clearly the Local Government Elections Act clearly authorises the EC to conduct elections to local authorities in Malaysia. It is therefore perplexing that the EC Chairman continues to refuse to conduct local government elections in Penang. As the EC is the only legal authority that is empowered to conduct local government elections, the Penang state government has no choice but to seek a court declaration to compel the EC to abide and obey the Penang state government’s directives.

LIM GUAN ENG

—Mandarin Translation —-

槟州首席部长林冠英于2012年2月2日在光大发表声明：

选举委员会应该1960地方政府选举法令已于1991年修订，并指定它为举行市议员选举的唯一适用的法律。

选举委员会应该1960地方政府选举法令已于1991年修订，并指定它为举行市议员选举的唯一适用的法律。因此，槟州政府正采取积极的步骤，扫除所有阻止选委会举办地方选举的法律障碍。

其中一项步骤就是槟州政府指示州法律顾问在宪报上公布，让槟州的地方政府免于遵守1976年地方政府法令第15条文，首开先例，申请庭令，迫使指示选委会举行地方政府。

选委会丹斯里阿都阿兹说，对于槟州政府要就行使州权限、指示选委会举办地方政府选举的问题带上法庭，他对州政府的用意感到混淆。在2010年3月4日，我曾写信给选委会，行使宪法第113（4）条文赋予州政府的权利，要求他为槟岛市政局及威省市政局举办地方政府选举，但是选委会却拒绝我的要求。宪法第113（4）条文阐明：“联邦或州法律可以授权选委会举行选举，项目（1）所列明的除外。”

2010年3月12日，我也写信给首相，要求与他见面，商讨州政府的立场，但是，也是不了了之。

我可以确认，选举委员会主席在2010年3月23日，写了一封很长信的给我，说明联邦政府声称不可能举办地方选举，因为1976年地方政府法令第15条文已经让地方政府法令宣判无效。这也是为什么州政府要在宪报上公布，让槟州的地方政府免于遵守1976年地方政府法令第15条文。

选委会主席及联邦政府也忽略了这项课题的症结，那就是地方政府选举法令从来没有被废除，反而曾在1991年修订过。根据1968年法令修正法第10（2）条文，一项修订后的法令，“应该被视为，同时不应被任何法庭、任何目的质疑它做为有关事项的唯一适用法律，并在当天生效。”

很明显地，地方政府法令授权选委会为马来西亚地方政府举行地方选举。因此，针对选委会主席继续拒绝在槟州举办地方政府选举，槟州选举别无选择，只好申请庭令，迫使选委会遵守槟州政府的指示。

林冠英

By refusing to criticise the refusal of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to condemn Perkasa for distributing “White Pows” and not taking action against MCA Seputih Division Committee Member Dr Tiew Chew Ming, MCA President Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek can no longer hide MCA’s links and UMNO’s open support for Perkasa. What is the use of condemning the racist Perkasa when Chua should also have asked why the Prime Minister Dato Seri Najib did not condemn Perkasa for blatantly trampling over the sensitivities of the Chinese community by distributing white instead of red ang pau during Chinese New Year?

Clearly the Prime Minister’s refusal to condemn Perkasa only proves UMNO’s open support for Perkasa racist objectives in creating their own version of “Asian Apartheid” by wanting to divide Malaysians into favoured “first-class” and discriminated “second-class” citizens. MCA is equally guilty by failing to act sternly against its Sri Desa Branch Chairman and Seputeh division committee member Dr Tiew Chew Ming, who has been exposed as openly assisting Perkasa by ferrying elderly citizens to Perkasa’s event and spoke publicly in defense of Perkasa.

Such open linkages with Perkasa by UMNO and MCA contrast with the openness of PAS in respecting the religious and cultural sensitivities of the Chinese community. PAS leaders not only distributed ang pau, mandarin oranges and Chinese New Year cards to market traders but also to a pork seller, with his pork openly displayed. Will UMNO leader have a green lion dance performance or do what PAS leaders have done?

The time for racist parties like UMNO and MCA is over. Malaysians regardless of race must reject not only extremist Perkasa and Utusan Malaysia but also UMNO and MCA, that has divided the people for 55 years and robbed the country of trillions of ringgit by relying on racial rhetoric.

Star had a front-page report yesterday quoting Customs deputy director-general Datuk Zainul Abidin Taib as saying that 7 high-tech cash scanners capable of detecting bank notes in luggage are to be installed at all entry and exit points in the country to curb the illegal outflow of money that has amounted to bilions of ringgit. US-based watchdog group Global Financial Integrity in its annual report said Malaysia lost RM150bil in illegal outflow of cash in 2009.

Malaysia was the fourth highest among developing nations, losing US$338bil (RM1.08trillion or 1,077 billion) between 2000 and 2009. Are we to lose another trillion ringgit or go bankrupt first before realising that we are being distracted from fighting corruption by supporting extremists and racists?
LIM GUAN ENG

— Mandarin Translation- -
民主行动党秘书长兼槟州首席部长林冠英于2012年2月2日在吉隆坡发表声明：

马华不愿批评首相不谴责土著权威组织派发“白包”的做法，以及没有采取行动对付马华士布爹区会当然委会张秋明医生，显示拿督蔡细历医生再也无法掩盖马华与土权的联系，以及巫统对土权的公开支持。

马华不愿批评首相不谴责土著权威组织派发“白包”的做法，以及没有采取行动对付马华士布爹区会当然委会张秋明医生，拿督蔡细历医生再也无法掩盖马华与土权的联系，以及巫统对土权的公开支持。蔡细历谴责种族主义的土权有什么用？他应该问首相为何不谴责土权，公然在农历新年期间触犯华社的敏感文化禁忌，派发“白包”，而不是“红包”？

很明显地，首相不愿意谴责土权，证明巫统公开支持土权的种族主义议程，制造本身的“亚洲版隔离政策”，将马来西亚人民分裂成“第一等”而受歧视的“第二等”公民。马华也难逃其咎，因为它没有严厉对付时利帝沙支会兼士布爹区会当然委员张秋明医生，他被揭发公开协助土权载送老人家出席土权的活动，还公开替土权说话。

巫统和马华与土权的联系如此张扬，与伊斯兰党尊重华社宗教及文化敏感习俗成强烈正比。伊斯兰党不只分派红包、蕉柑和贺年卡给巴刹小贩，也派给公开摆卖猪肉的猪肉贩。巫统会不会进行舞青狮表演，或者像伊斯兰党领袖那样？

是时候终结像巫统及马华这类种族主义政党。马来西亚各族人民不只应该拒绝极端的土权及《前锋报》，也应该拒绝巫统和马华，它已经分裂人民55年，还假借种族论述，敛走了我国数兆令吉的财富。

昨天《星报》 头条新闻引述关税局副总监拿督再努说，当局将在我们所有出入口安装7部现款扫描机，以阻遏数百亿令吉非法资金外流的问题。美国全球金融廉正机构在年度报告中说，2009年，马来西亚因资金非法外流而损失了1500亿令吉。

马来西亚在2000年至2009年间损失了10兆7700 亿令吉，是资金非法外流第四多的国家。难道我们还要等到损失另一个1兆令吉或破产，我们才发现反贪工作因支持极端及种族主义而转移视线，？

林冠英

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Do you know what the common allergens are in Malaysia? This is a often encountered scenario in the clinic yet there are so few clinical immunologists in Malaysia. The Malaysian Society of Allergy and Immunology has useful information in their website. Too often we only think about food allergens (not surprising given our food orientated culture. We musn’t forget about other home allergens which include not only house dust mites but cockroaches and animal dander.
Here’s a useful infographic about bed bugs and house dust mites:

Via: Allergy Asthma Technology

from the Malaysian Medical Resources

Allergies

第三個版本才是完美的。

看過胡某之前的 Final Cut Pro X 的實際操作評語的人就知道我有多討厭這個軟件。

今天蘋果終於釋出第三個版本的 Final Cut Pro X，這個版本粉碎了坊間說蘋果已經放棄專業市場的傳聞。胡某花了將近一個小時下載這總共約 4GB 的昇級軟件後終於可以跟各位用 Final Cut Pro 7 的朋友們說，等待終於結束了。

From Malaysia Chronicle

In the last few weeks, I have openly condemned the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency’s (MACC) inaction over the NFC Scandal and the blazen shameless admission of acceptance of gratification by Awang Adek. Since then, Malaysians have witnessed another “rejected” Minister, Azalina Othman Said, making a similar admission.

It seems that instead of being embarrassed, apologetic and standing down from public office, these shameless BN ministers are being emboldened to use the propaganda tools of their party and the mainstream media to make their misconducts look innocent. Like most Malaysians, I am appalled and find this most repulsive.

An echo in the PM’s Department

My call for Shahrizat Jalil and Awang Adek to resign from all posts in the party and the government is exactly to prevent what is happening now. I knew they would use all their resources to spin fabulous stories of how they have been victimized and how the whole fiasco is a misunderstanding.

You can clearly see that happening when Perkasa’s Ibrahim Ali comes to Shahrizat’s defence and tries to make the Auditor-General a political scapegoat. You then see the jantan or macho minister in the PM’s office, Nazri Aziz, explaining why there cannot be a public declaration of assets by those holding high public office.

To make it appear that the Chinese community also share this “aspiration” for secrecy, Nazri’s deputy, VK Liew, echoes his boss’s sentiments by saying that that it is inappropriate for the MACC to keep records of properties of ministers and deputy ministers.

That to me amounts to abusing the 1Malysia concept to cover up for wrong doings by government leaders. That is against the Islamic principles of “Amr Ma’aruf Nahy Mungkar” i.e. encourage righteousness and discourage evil. That it is done by the highest echelons of our government leaders is public display of arrogance of the highest order.

VK Liew, please break wind in your own home!

Let us remind ourselves that Teoh Beng Hock died over allegations of a mere RM 2,400-00. Ahmad Sarbaini died because of similar minor allegations which until today have just gone silent. Yet, when the riches of the powerful are involved, the MACC either drag its feet or behave like eunuchs emasculated of all their powers. I ask the MACC – why the discrimination?

But I cannot stomach it if so called Chinese leaders like VK Liew speaks with a forked tongue just to please his political masters. Let me say this to VK Liew – “IF YOU HAVE TO FART, PLEASE DO IT IN THE COMFORT AND PRIVACY OF YOUR HOME. IF YOU HAVE MUCH TO HIDE, THEN QUIT”

It is on record and for reasons best known to MACC, they had acted in a very high handed manner against Lawyer Rosli Dahlan in asking him to declare his assets whereas he had never even served in any public office. He had been a private practitioner all along and despite his innocence, he was humiliated, abused and charged just because he acted professionally to defend his client. Yet, we now have a senior UMNO Minister and his Chinese deputy saying that MACC cannot be entitled to keep records of Ministers’ wealth. What is it that these UMNO and BN Chinese leaders so afraid of in making and open declaration of their wealth if all their accumulated wealth are legitimate?

I wish to remind VK Liew that he is elected by the people to serve in public office and his salary comes from law-abiding taxpayers.The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president is therefore accountable to the people at all times and can be made answerable the MACC when needed. If you have nothing to hide or what the Chinese would say, “Something that cannot see the daylight”, then what is there to fear?

If there’s nothing to hide, they should not be scared

As a former MACC advisory panel member, I fully support MACC Advisory Panel Chairman, Zaitun Zawiyah Puteh, over the commission’s proposal to the government as follows:

a) to obtain a copy of the declaration of assets of Cabinet members and their spouses and other family members;

b) that a copy of the declaration of assets of all members of the federal administration be given to the commission;

c) that their spouses and other family members be required to disclose their assets through a statutory declaration and a record of it be kept by the MACC.

No better person to know the assets of Ministers than the MACC

It is most appropriate for MACC to know the assets of all who hold high public office. That is what accountability and transparency is about in the public sector. Liew is, therefore, seriously flawed in his argument that MACC’s main role is only to receive and investigate complaints on corruption in the country.

To be an effective enforcement agency, the MACC must have reliable records to enable it to gather reliable and solid evidence for a successful prosecution. If Liew, cannot understand such basic logic in the fight against corruption, it is time for him to step down or for the people to elect another more intelligent leader.

“HUMBLENESS IS GOOD VIRTUE, ARROGANCE SHALL FALL,

THE MEEK WILL RULE THE WORLD”.

Tan Sri Datuk Robert Phang is a prominent citizen, an ex-member of the MACC advisory panel.

Here is the corrected, albeit more complicated, method to calculate investment return of SARA 1Malaysia by investing your own RM 5,000 in cash and not withdrawing the monthly RM 134 payment until maturity. Credit goes to Peter Lim who dropped his insightful comment in my original post,  An (Over-)Simplified Way to Calculate Investment Return of SARA 1Malaysia.

My gratitude also goes to Malaysia’s top financial blogger, KC Lau, for my blog post mention in KCLau.com –   Should you invest in SARA 1Malaysia Fund? (where my post was featured).

Peter Lim’s original comment

I think there’s a mistake in the assumption (thus causing a mistake in the calculation and the answer).

If you invest with your own cash of RM 5,000, you either get RM 134 per month OR RM 13,000 at the end of 5 years (if you choose Not to take the monthly withdrawal), Not both.

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Using the same online financial calculator, the parameters in Scenario 1 becomes much simplified, like this:

Present Value= -5,000

Future Value = 13,000

Payment at: End

Then, click on IR button. The interest rate is 21.06 percent per annum. This is the Annual Effective Rate (AER).

Now, we need to convert AER to Annual Percentage Rate (APR).  AER is the interest rate when you account for compounding, while APR does not. For a crash course on APR and AER, you can refer to a post I wrote last year,  Lesson 1: Annual Percentage Rate vs Annual Effective Rate – Can you differentiate?

AER to APR conversion mathematical equation (or use Conversion or CNVR function on a financial calculator) :

APR = n*[(AER+1)^(1/n) - 1], where n = number of times for intra-year compounding, and “^” represents “power of”

APR = 12 x [(0.2106+1)^(1/12) - 1] = 19.26 percent

Hence, simple interest rate = 19.26/12 = 1.605 percent per month. This is the monthly return of investment for not withdrawing RM 134 monthly.

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Now, we can do a double check of our calculation above.

Total capital after 1 year = 5,000 x (1 + 21.06%)  = RM 6,053

This is equivalent to:

Total capital after 1 year = 5000 x (1+ 1.605%)^12 = RM 6,053

My financial thoughts

After reading readers’ comments from my original post and KCLau’s post, it does seem to me that the workings of this scheme is quite vague to most people. For instance, the money you invested in is actually in the form of 5000 units of Amanah Saham 1Malaysia (subject to change, but what is actually subject to change – the units quantity or the price per unit?) with monthly payment eligibility if you have at least 100 units (does that mean I can sell some units within the 5 years? If not, how can an investor end up with less than 5000 units per entry price?).  The units are priced at RM 1 per unit, and it does seem the price is  fixed at RM 1 throughout 5 years but one reader didn’t think so. Besides, someone mentioned that we can only invest using loan, not own cash, and that single people are not eligible for the scheme.

If you have any insider information to share apart from what is stated in the official website, please drop your comments.

This article is posted at: KCLau's Money Tips

A Corrected Method to Calculate Investment Return of SARA 1Malaysia

Malaysiakini

Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) diingatkan supaya tidak sibuk dengan isu-isu kecil dan prosedur tetapi sebaliknya memberi tumpuan utama kepada membersihkan daftar pemilih, kata Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

“Tanggungjawab lebih besar bagi SPR adalah membersihkan pilihan raya, bersihkan daftar pemilih, pastikan pilihan raya yang adil dan akses media untuk semua (parti yang bertanding).

“SPR tidak harus terikat atau sibuk dengan perkara-perkara kecil kerana itu prosedur biasa. Ini satu cubaan untuk mengalihkan perhatian rakyat,” katanya pada sidang akhbar di Wangsa Maju hari ini.

Beliau mengulas laporan dalam akhbar The Star hari ini bahawa SPR akan menghentikan amalan mengadakan perarakan pada hari penamaan calon pilihan raya.

Parti-parti pembangkang sebelum ini menuduh SPR berdolak dalik berhubung syor dan cadangan yang telah dibuat oleh jawatankuasa terpilih khas parlimen (PSC) berhubung pembaharuan dalam sistem pilihan raya di negara ini.

Langkah terbaru SPR itu menimbulkan kebimbangan di kalangan parti pembangkang yang sebelum ini seringkali menuduh badan itu menyebelahi kerajaan yang diterajui BN dan sering cuba melambatkan reformasi pilihan raya.

Wow! It’s been a while since the last motorsports@PETRONAS2011 update!

Time time around, we take a look at AHM Profile!
Getting up close with the heroes of PETRONAS Syntium Moto Yamaha AHM Team- Zamri Baba, Ramdan Rosli & Hafieenaz Ali to find out what Zamri has to say about Syahril Izzuwan, the 2011 Champion in the CP 115 category.

Watch the video here!

Jaman filem sebelum era deejeetal susah payah orang nak elakkan flare sebab kesannya akan menghilangkan kontras gambar serta warna jadi “tawar”.
Masa kini budak-budak berkampung di Facebook nak sangat efek flare photoshop ni dan kasik kaler kuning-kuning dan desaturate sikit lagi siap bilang.. “toning” gitu….

Ms Ardell, lighted with an umbrella far, far away and flared from camera left lagi...

Ni nak kongsi, tak perlu 44 layer fotoshop pun BOLEH dapatkan flare yang sebenar . Dalam kamera. Dengan pakai lampu denyar. Malam-malam boleh tidur awal beb tak payah lah nak “Edit” 44 layer gitu sampai pagi whoah hahahahahaha

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Sekian marketing untuk hari ini, tunggu pengumuman tentang “Bengkel Penataan Cahaya Lokasi Bersama Ted Adnan” pada hari Sabtu, 10hb March 2012 di Kuala Lumpur nanti.

Bengkel penataan cahaya di Saratok Sarawak pada bulan Februari 2012 ni masih on sebab tiket Airasia dah beli lama dah! Jupa anda di Saratok sana nanti, macham-macham saya nak share nanti

I was lucky enough to get a free 50GB box.net account. 50GB is alot!. However, the catch, individual files can’t exceed 100mb each. lol

I mainly use my box.net to hold eBooks for later access on my Laptop and Android devices.

There is no free client for Linux so I use WebDAV instead. It’s slower but it works.

Start by installing davfs2.
# sudo yum install davfs2
Create your Box.net directory
# mkdir ~/Box.net
Create the davfs2 config directory. It’s in your home dir so it’s not system wide.
# mkdir ~/.davfs2
Disable locking. Causes issues sometimes.
# cd ~/.davfs2
# echo "use_locks 0" > davfs2.conf
Create a secret file to hold your box.net login details. Make sure to “chmod 600 the file”
# echo "https://www.box.net/dav [you box.net login] [your box.net password]" > secrets
# chmod 600 secrets
Backup and update your /etc/fstab file to include your box.net directory.
# cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.ori
# echo "https://www.box.net/dav /home/danesh/Box.net davfs rw,user,noauto 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
Mount and you should be able to list ~/Box.net
# mount ~/Box.net
# ls -l ~/Box.net

This is the hard way to do this. I will post a simpler method using Nautilus in a future post.

• Mounting CIFS shares
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Many many years ago, they volunteered (or so I heard) to produce a short Saladin video demo, which our dear friends at MDeC raved as Malaysia’s next big project. Many years ago, was more than 10 years ago.

Though I have not heard of Saladin the hero ever since (UPDATE: they have apparently completed the series, but there was no mention of Silver Ant), I was pleasantly surprised by a video teaser on TV today. Silver Ant is alive and kicking, and they have produced a under seafaring story that look strikingly close to Pixar’s Finding Nemo.

Seefood has the look and feel of a Pixar film? Doesn’t matter if they copied any idea from Pixar, because this teaser looks good. Just hope originality will be Silver Ant’s next primary objective.

But for now, it will do.

Nothing in life should ever remain the way it is forever. Stagnation is a slow death and nostalgia is just another way of saying what you have now isn't as good as what was once past. Always remember that the world is your sandbox, and everything, not even your memories can be redefined and repurposed into something better than what it originally was.

Hack your life and your world.

It's not just a sacred code that every geek follows. It's another road to a more fulfilling life.

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PDC akan menjadi agensi pelaksana untuk Tabung Rumah Mampu Milik sebanyak RM500 juta untuk bina rumah mampu milik di Seberang Perai dan Pulau Pinang.

Jumlah RM500 juta merupakan jumlah yang paling besar diperuntukkan oleh mana-mana kerajaan negeri di Malaysia untuk membina rumah mampu milik. Jumlah wang ini diperolehi daripada pengswastaan Bayan Mutiara secara tender terbuka. Di bawah pentadbiran lama RM600-800 juta wang rakyat dicadangkan dibelanjakan untuk memindahkan pusat pentadbiran baru daripada Komtar ke Bayan Mutiara. Kerajaan baru Pakatan Rakyat telah menolak cadangan ini dan menggantikan dengan cadangan pengswastaan yang tidak perlu membelanjakan wang besar sebalik menambahkan sumber kewangan agar kerajaan negeri boleh menjalankan projek sosial seperti membina rumah mampu milik.

Sejak mengambil alih tampuk pemerintahan pada tahun 2008, Kerajaan Negeri berjiwa rakyat di bawah pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat telah meluluskan pembinaan rumah kos rendah dan kos sederhana rendah sebanyak 11,596 unit yang sekaligus menyangkal dakwaan yang mengatakan kerajaan negeri pakatan rakyat tidak membina rumah mampu milik kepada rakyatnya. Ini adalah di antara kos rendah (RM42,000) dan kos sederhana rendah (RM72,500) yang diluluskan.

Di bawah Kerajaan Negeri dan Agensi Kerajaan Negeri, projek perumahan Kos Rendah dan Sederhana Rendah seperti berikut yang dibangunkan adalah seperti berikut :

槟州首席部长林冠英于2012年2月1日在槟城发表的声明：

槟州发展机构将成为价值5亿令吉“有素质平民屋基金”的执行单位，以在槟威两地兴建可承担的平民屋。

槟州发展机构将成为价值5亿令吉“有素质平民屋基金”的执行单位，以在槟威两地兴建可承担的平民屋。

这笔总值5亿令吉的兴建平民屋基金，是全马各州当中，数额最高的可承担房屋基金。这笔基金，是透过公开招标、以私营化峇央珍珠而取得的。在前朝政府执政期间，前朝建议耗资6亿至8亿令吉的人民纳税钱，将现有的光大行政中心迁往峇央珍珠。不过，民联政府上台后，拒绝了这项建议，并以不需要花费巨额的私营化取而代之。这样一来，州政府还能增加财务资源，以推行各项如兴建可承担平民屋的社会计划。

以民为本的民联槟州政府，自从2008年执政以来，已批准了1万1千596间廉价及中廉价屋，而不是如一些人所指控般从未兴建任何可承担房屋。获批准的廉价屋为价格4万2千令吉，而中廉价屋则是7万2千500令吉。

下列是州政府及州政府机构所承建的廉价屋及中价屋工程：

i’m still alive (barely). i work 17 hours a day. i need more hours, please give me some?

that is all.

The Internet has grown to become a major Malaysian industry and one that contributes more to Malaysia’s GDP than it does to the U.S or China, according to the “Online and Upcoming: The Internet’s Impact on Aspiring Countries” report, a new joint research by McKinsey & Company and Google.

The Internet contributes 4.1% to Malaysia’s GDP

The reports estimates that the Internet contributes 4.1% of Malaysia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2010, or US $9.75 billion of the 2010 GDP of US$238 billion (World Bank [PDF] estimate) – placing Malaysia among the highest of the 30 fast-growing countries that the report highlights as crucial to the Internet’s future.

The government’s strong promotion of ICT has resulted in broadband penetration doubling between 2008 and 2010. Malaysia’s stock of secure Internet servers has also doubled per capita since 2007, giving it 25 times as many per capita as the rest of South Asia.

Malaysians spend most time online

According to the report, Malaysians now spend more time surfing the Internet than they spend consuming any other media, including watching television, listening to the radio, and reading newspaper. 1 out of every 3 minutes spent online is on social networking.

However, domestic online consumption is below average. Only 40% in Malaysia, compared to 70% average in other countries.

Malaysia business yet invest in Internet advertising

While Malaysian businesses sell more things online than many other countries with a similar wealth but they have yet to invest in Internet advertising. Only 1% of Malaysian businesses advertise online, which is bottom 10% of the 57 countries ranked for the index.

“Online and Upcoming: The Internet’s Impact on Aspiring Countries” report is the first of its kind to measure the contribution the Internet makes to economies.

The report suggests to decrease the cost of doing business on the Internet and encourage the growth of human and financial capital in order for SMEs to capture the full potential of the Internet in Malaysia. The full report is available here.

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Live Update: 1 Feb ’12, 12.17pm PKT | From: iPhone 4 via Maxis MY & Mobilink PK | Author: KNizam

perghhhhh late breakfast aka brunch disudahi dengan ini
nasi lemak gembira di shah alam yo! gembira giler beb
sambal ikan bilis, sambal kerang & sambal sotong kering
semuanya berpadu tenaga bersama di nasi lemak gembira!

To paraphrase a famous quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “The Prime Minister doth protest too much, methinks.”
It would appear that is the case today when Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Najib Tun Razak is trying to fool the public into believing that the use of “white pows” at Perkasa’s Chinese New Year gathering last Sunday has nothing to do with Barisan Nasional.

Najib also said that the incident was a learning experience for race relations in Malaysia. How can Najib dismiss this extremely disrespectful and insensitive gesture so frivolously, when white packets are traditionally used for Chinese funerals? The failure of the Prime Minister to condemn Perkasa for such a disparaging gesture shows how protective Dato’ Sri Najib is of Perkasa even at the expense of trampling over the sensitivities of the Chinese community.

Now, Najib is quickly trying to distance himself from the fiasco by claiming that Ibrahim Ali is an independent member of parliament and holds no official position, thus he has nothing to do with Barisan Nasional or the Government.

No one believes this. Only two years ago in an Al Jazeera interview, Najib himself had defended Perkasa by saying that they are “not so extreme” if one understood their demands, and that Perkasa can be accommodated by the Umno-led Government. And while he is an “independent MP” by name, Ibrahim Ali has always openly supported BN and Dato’ Sri Najib against Pakatan Rakyat.

On top of that, UMNO and BN has consistently supported Perkasa, attended their functions, and have even adopted their views on national policies. Even MCA has been exposed as openly assisting Perkasa when their Sri Desa Branch Chairman and Seputeh division committee member Dr Tiew Chew Ming was reported to have spoken on behalf of Perkasa as saying that Perkasa fights for all people regardless of race and had also arranged for people to attend this Perkasa function.

The late Datuk Dr Zainal Aznam, a member of the National Economic Advisory Council (NEAC) that drafted the New Economic Model (NEM), had even blamed the BN Government for submitting to Perkasa by dropping the proposed Equal Opportunities Commission, which was supposed to be part of the NEM. This happened following protests by Perkasa against the NEM.

Compounding this, time and time again Malaysians have seen Ibrahim Ali and Perkasa have been getting away with the most seditious actions and statements. Despite acts such as the burning of Bersih Chairperson Datuk Ambiga’s picture, calling her a “dangerous Hindu woman” and warning the Chinese not to come out on July 9 to join the Bersih 2.0 demonstration because “anything can happen”, no action whatsoever has been taken on Perkasa.

It is thus crystal clear that Perkasa has the support of the UMNO and BN leadership as well as UMNO’s paper Utusan Malaysia, when they can get away with such vile and seditious threats.

Only by openly cutting off all ties and support with Perkasa can Dato’ Sri Najib and UMNO convince Malaysians that Perkasa has nothing to do with BN. The PM must realise that it is his open support for Perkasa that emboldens them to act in an intolerant manner that preaches hate and extremism as well as expose his 1Malaysia as empty sloganeering.

Lim Guan Eng

民主行动党秘书长兼巴眼区国会议员林冠英于2012年2月1日在吉隆坡发表声明：

首相没有谴责土著权威组织的轻视态度，从中可以看出拿督斯里纳吉是如何地维护土权，甚至不惜践踏华社的敏感神经。
套用莎士比亚名著《哈姆雷特》的名言，“我想，首相辩解太多了。”

当首相拿督斯里纳吉企图让人相信，土著权威组织在上星期日农历新年门户开放活动上派发“白包”与国阵毫无关系时，这就叫做愚弄大众。

纳吉也说，这起事件是马来西亚种族关系的教训。传统上，“白包”只用于华裔葬礼，纳吉怎么可以如此轻佻的对待土权这种毫不尊重及不敏感的姿态？首相没有谴责土著权威组织的轻视态度，从中可以看出拿督斯里纳吉是如何地维护土权，甚至不惜践踏华社的敏感神经。

现在，纳吉想要尽速与这起闹剧撇清关系，他说依布拉欣阿里是独立议员，没有官职，因此他与国阵或政府没有关系。

没有人会相信他。在两年前一次接受半岛电视台的访问时，纳吉早就为土权辩护。当时他说，如果人们了解土权的诉求，他们其实“不算太极端”，因此，巫统领导的政府可以容纳土权。虽然依布拉欣阿里以“独立议员”自居，但是他常常公开支持国阵及拿督斯里纳吉，和民联作对。

还有，巫统和国阵还一贯地支持土权，出席他们的活动，甚至采纳他们对国家政策的看法。就连马华也公开支持土权，根据报道，马华斯里迪沙支部主席兼马华公会士布爹区会当然委员张秋明甚至替土权说话，指土权是为全民斗争、不分种族的组织，他还协助安排人们出席土权的活动。

曾经起草“新经济模式”的已故国家经济咨询理事会成员拿督再纳，他生前责怪国阵政府向土权低头，不接受理事会所建议的“公平机会”，这原本是新经济模式的部分内容，却在土权示威过后被删除掉。

加上这一次，马来西亚人一次又一次看到依布拉欣阿里和土权过份的煽动性言论和动作。尽管他们焚烧净选盟主席拿督安美嘉的照片、称她为“危险的印度女人”、还警告华人不要在709走上街头因为“什么事都可能发生”，但是，从来没有人对土权采取行动。

很明显地，土权有巫统和国阵在背后撑腰，还有巫统的报章《马来西亚前锋报》做后盾，他们可以不必为自己的卑鄙及煽动性威胁承担任何责任。

唯有与土著切断一切关系、停止支持他们，拿督斯里纳吉及巫统才可以让马来西亚人相信，土权的所作所为与国阵无关。首相必须要知道，他如此公开地支持土权，只会纵容他们继续胡作非为、鼓吹仇恨及极端主义，也证明他的“一个马来西亚”只是空洞的口号。

林冠英

拍電影，製作唱片，影響力越來越大。
現在的 Astro 令我想起當年的 HVD。
棒打出頭鳥。
雖然現在的媒體生態不像從前，Astro 也沒有一個像樣的對手，但是在馬來西亞這個神奇的國度裡，不是你聽話就會沒事的。
希望他們不要步上後者的後塵。

開心樂龍龍啊～！

Let’s get back to my journey to Harry Potter land in London!

Part 1: The Flight To London [video]
Part 2: Wow, Hello London! Nice to meet you. [video]
Part 3: Royal Albert Hall, Double Decker Buses & 1st Hard Rock Cafe In The World
Part 4: My 130 Bucks Pasta in London
Part 5: Midnight Walk in London [video]
Part 6: Picadilly Circus & Crazy Queue At Trafalgar Square!
Part 7: Good Morning London!
Part 8: Fat Sausages & Ticket To Hogwarts!
Part 9: We Are At King’s Cross! I Challenged Harry Potter At Platform 9 3/4
Part 10: Oh London Bridge, You Make Us Wet..
Part 11: Byron Burger At Picadilly Circus With James & Katie
Part 12: We Are At The Red Carpet! Hey There Ron Weasley!
Part 13: I Met Dumbledore, Weasley Twins, & Draco Malfoy From Harry Potter!
Part 14: I Took A Photo With Hermione! Oh Lord Voldermort, Hagrid & Prof. Snape Too
Part 15: Meeting Harry Potter, J.K.Rowling & Walking The Red Carpet In London

So we walked up the red carpet.. which was super long… we walked past the NAtional Gallery at Trafalgar square

Check out the awesome view of the Trafalgar Square with all the Harry Potter fans around

A closer look at the National Gallery

Walk walk walk and we entered the realm of Harry Potter!

They staged the area to look just like the movie!

I met the owl from the movie!

The other side of the red carpet: the respective school emblems!

Kepala babi yang dijumpai di kawasan pintu masuk Masjid Nurul Iman di Batu 17, Rawang, Selangor merupakan satu tindakan yang tidak sensitif, pengecut dan provokasi yang bertujuan untuk mengapi-apikan sentimen perkauman dan agama di ambang pilihan raya umum.

DAP mengecam hebat insiden ini dan berpendirian bahawa tidak ada ruang di Malaysia bagi tindakan-tindakan yang sia-sia dan menjijikkan seperti ini yang bertentangan dengan sifat masyarakat kita yang aman dan berbilang budaya.

Kami menyeru supaya rakyat Malaysia bertenang dan tidak bertindak balas kerana tindakan ini jelas dilakukan oleh pihak-pihak tertentu dengan motif yang jahat. Namun demikian, mereka tidak akan mencapai objektif jahat mereka kerana rakyat Malaysia bukan sahaja sudah biasa hidup bersama malah suka meraikan kepelbagaian budaya dan agama di negara kita. Keamanan masyarakat kita tidak akan hancur dek tindakan-tindakan pengecut oleh puak pelampau.

Kita menyeru agar semua pihak bersatu untuk mengutuk penodaan dan pengotoran mana-mana tempat beribadat, biarpun masjid atau gereja atau kuil, dan berharap agar pihak Kerajaan akan serta merta menyiasat dan mengambil tindakan yang sewajarnya.

Lim Guan Eng

—- English Version —–

Press Statement by DAP Secretary-General and Bagan MP Lim Guan Eng in Kuala Lumpur on 1.2.2012

DAP Strongly Condemns The Pig’s Head Found At A Mosque In Rawang As An Insensitive Act Of Cowardice And Provocation Designed To Stoke Racial And Religious Sentiments Ahead Of The General Election

The pig’s head found at the entrance of the Nurul Iman Mosque at Batu 18, Rawang, Selangor is an insensitive act of cowardice and provocation designed to stoke racial and religious sentiments ahead of the upcoming General Election.

The DAP strongly condemns this incident as there is no room in Malaysia for such indiscriminate and disgusting acts that go against the peace-loving and multi-cultural nature of our people.

We urge Malaysians to remain calm and not to overreact as this incident was clearly the doing of certain quarters with despicable intentions. However, the perpetrators will fail to achieve their evil goals because Malaysians have learnt not only to live with but to celebrate the cultural and religious differences in our society. We will not let decades of peace be undone by the cowardly actions of extremists and bigots.

We also call upon all parties to unite in condemning the desecration and defilement of any place of religious worship, be it a mosque or a church or a temple, and hope that the Government will immediately get to the bottom of this.

Lim Guan Eng

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I was in bed, half awake. My eyes were shut. I was acutely aware of the surroundings. The bed was next to a wall with a window. The door, painted in green, was to my right. Sounds from the piano resonated down the hallway from the living room.

My mother was outside somewhere, either occupying herself with housework or in the garden, I was not sure which. The coolness of the morning filled me with a sense of contentment. In the comfort of my pillows and ruffled blanket, I was reluctant to get up.

Reality seeped in as realisation slowly stirred me from the slumber. Indeed, there was a window on my left but the door to my right was grey and next to it was another door in the same colour. Sounds from the piano came from the neighbouring house and not from the living room.

My Twitter update a while later reflected my feelings when I became fully cognizant of where I really was.

Thought I was in my childhood home with mother pottering outside. Woke up to discover I’m far away, all grown up and mother long gone.

For the past week or so, I have woken up remembering dreams like this. They are usually bits and pieces of familiar scenes; from my childhood, from my teenage years, from my past. The most vivid was also this, recurring every now and then, of the one place I felt most secure and comfortable in, my bedroom in the Jalan Terengganu house in Penang.

I guess, deep inside, one part of me wished I was still that seventeen year old kid, bumming around without a care in the world. Life was good back then. How was I to foresee my life would turn out the way it is now. Ignorance is bliss, they say. I cannot agree more, not that I have any complaint about my life now, on a personal level. Life is still good but dreams like that give me a sense of joy knowing that I have experienced such bliss before.

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In this article, you will learn how to create a Google+ Page badge for your website using Google Developers badge configuration tool.

If you haven’t create a Google+ page yet, follow this link to create one.

First of all, you need to get your Google+ Page ID, which is a 21-digit string. Unfortunately, Google+ yet offer easy-to-remember URL shortnames like Facebook Pages.

After you go your Google+ Page ID, goto badge configuration tool on Google Developers and paste your G+ page ID under “Set your Google+ page link”.

As soon as you submit your Google+ Page ID, you will get a badge preview. There are 6 options: standard badge, small badge, small icon, medium icon, large icon, and no badge (huh?). You can also further customize your badge’s language and advanced options.

At the bottom of the page, you get the badge code which you will copy and paste into your site to add Google+ Page badge. The code splits into 2 parts, the first tag is to be placed in the part of your web page. The latter tag is where you want to show the badge.

My two cents

Whether you like it or not, Google has added Google+ factors in Google search results. I’d recommend every website owner create a Google+ Page and add the badge to your website. It is easy.

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