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Govt announces cost-cutting measures
The price hike was inevitable since the price of crude oil is soaring. Our Mr. Abdullah Bodohwi decided to cut expenses to curb the rise in petrol price.
Via The Star online:
Monday June 9, 2008 MYT 8:39:10 PM
Govt announces cost-cutting measures
By MAZWIN NIK ANIS & SIM LEOI LEOI
PUTRAJAYA: Ministers’ and deputy ministers’ entertainment allowances will be slashed and their paid holidays limited to local and Asean destinations in a cost-cutting move that will save the Government RM2bil this year.
Even the Prime Minister and his deputy will not be spared this new ruling, which takes effect on July 1.
The Prime Minister currently enjoys a monthly entertainment allowance of RM18,865 while his deputy gets RM15,015. Other ministers and deputy ministers are given RM12,320 and RM6,000, respectively.
For the paid holidays, Cabinet members will not be allowed to claim for more than a week’s holiday.
Premier Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said these measures “would not be the first and the last; many other announcements will be made by the Government”.
“The savings will be channelled to subsidies for low-income groups,” he said after chairing the first National Inflation Council meeting at his office here on Monday. “We are sensitive to the hardship faced by the people as a result of the recent increase in fuel prices.
“Everybody will have to be thrifty in these difficult times, including the Government. Therefore, we are taking these measures to ensure administrative expenses are spent wisely. We have to show leadership by example.”
Other measures announced are a freeze on new government posts and the purchase of assets like cars, furniture and computers, limiting the number of workshops, seminars and conferences held at hotels, and postponing all renovation works for government offices.
The Prime Minister also ordered that maintenance works of government premises be carried out optimally so as to reduce costs and energy use.
The Government will also cut down on the number of functions like the opening of offices, prize presentations as well as disallow attire specifically made for an event.
“There is no point for a special attire because it’s wasteful. There is no need to wear attire with special logos. Later, you will just hang it up and treat it like a keepsake. It suffices to just wear your name tag,” Abdullah said.
“In line with this, a 10% cut will be imposed on expenses within departments. Much of the cut will involve promotional and campaign activities. However, the real amount has yet to be determined by the Treasury.”
Abdullah added that Treasury would issue a warrant once this amount had been ascertained.
The measures became effective Monday in a circular issued by the Treasury to all agencies and departments.
The freeze on new posts, however, does not cover critical sectors like education, health and enforcement, and those dealing with the delivery of public services and capable of increasing the country’s revenue.
Restructuring of agencies and departments will also be put off, except if this is to reduce workers or which does not involve the creation of new posts.
Official overseas trips will be limited to important international or inter-governmental meetings, with not more than three officers sent, and even then only those directly involved.
Niamah!!! Most of the rakyat worked day and night, paid their taxes and NEVER in their life went on a holiday. This incentive should be abolished with immediate effect. Let’s not forget its the rakyat’s money.
All cost cutting measures should have been done first and the last resort would be the lifting of the fuel subsidy. Simply because if fuel price rises, so are things associated with it, which is almost everything. Why is Mr. Abdullah doing it the other way round? Suka main belakang?
Mr. Abdullah, most of the rakyat including me, have little education. Please enlighten us since you were put in charge of our country, you must be a learned person.
We don’t know why as an oil producing country, we do not enjoy fully subsidized fuel prices. We don’t know where our monies from our road tax, income tax, service tax, excise duty from ‘overpriced’ vehicles, cigarettes and alcohol, assessment and whatever goddamnyouniamah taxes went to.
We don’t know why you bought some submarines, jet fighters and sent a moron to space as a passenger and lied to the whole country that he was an astronaut using tax payers’ monies. We don’t know why we have to pay toll for using highways since we already pay so many goddamnyouniamah taxes. We don’t know why you do not allow the school buses to raise the price of their services when you raised the price of fuel. School buses run on water ar? We also don’t know why others say how you could afford to buy a jet plane, a yacht and a bungalow down under. Are we paying you what they are paying BG Lee?
Really, there are many more things we do not know. Do you mind telling us?
Hands-on Mummy
Would you rather be a Hands-on mother or would you rather leave your baby with a babysitter?
I was at a relative’s last week whom is a babysitter. She had in her care a 4 months old baby boy. That baby boy was left in her care because his daddy had to work and his mother couldn’t manage him alone. How could a mother not be able to take care of her own child? Isn’t it a natural instinct kind of thing?
I became a father almost 6 months ago. At first I didn’t know anything. Through the months, I learned to change the diaper, bottle feed, change clothes, etc. It was done and learned all out of love.
Back to this baby boy. His daddy will drop him off at the babysitter at 8 am. He is not cleaned. He is still wearing the same set of clothes the day before, before he left for home from the babysitter’s. Without fail, his diaper will be full of shit when the babysitter bathes him at 9 am. Probably he is in the same diaper the day before. He has this rash all over his body especially at the neck and groin area. The babysitter said that it is probably because he was not cleaned when he is home at night. His father will pick him up at 7pm without fail everyday. He also spends the day at the babysitter even though his parents are at home.
I pity the baby boy. How could a parent do such a thing. How can a parent neglect his/her own child? It seems the baby boy was not even breast fed a single time.
My wife decided to become a full time mother and quit her job when our baby arrived. She has been breast feeding since day one. I miss my baby when I am at work and have now decided to work from home instead. We just want to be close to our baby. Its a feeling which words cannot describe.
Woi! If YOU are reading this, be more responsible lah. If a baby is ever a burden to YOU. Put on a condom next time lah. Apparently, they had a shot-gun wedding.
A bookstore is not a library
I was at a MPH Bookstore this morning looking at some books. Suddenly, my baby started crying. So we went to the children books section to look at some books and try to cheer her up a little. Then came this man and gave me that stare. The ‘please be quiet’ librarian stare.
So I moved to another section with the baby still crying. He then appear again and gave me the stare.
Tiu niamah!!! You were also once a baby and you also cried. Secondly, MPH is not a library. You want peace and quiet, go to a farking library. MPH is a bookstore where they sell books.
Please learn to differentiate between a library and a bookstore. And don’t farking give me the stare. I have a Glock underneath the stroller. Niamah!!!
Motherly love
Pak Lah, I beg, you, please release my son
K Kalaivaniy | May 14, 08 4:17pmYAB Dato Seri Abdullah Hj Ahmad Badawi,
Dear Mr Prime Minister,
I am the 67-year-old and proud mother of P Uthayakumar one of Hindraf leaders detained by your goodself under the Internal Security Act. I write as the mother of Uthayakumar and on behalf of all Malaysian mothers who have been deprived of the love, care and attention of their sons detained under the ISA.
Only a mother who had raised and nurtured her son would understand the torture of forcefully being separated from him. Like me, there are many other mothers in this country currently being denied to be freely with their sons. On behalf of them, I write to appeal to you as a father figure of this beautiful country to immediately release them.
No mother on earth would condone her son committing an unlawful act and going unpunished but no mother would be able to digest the fact that her son is held for his political beliefs without being charged with any offence.
Like my son, many sons are being held under the law for their political beliefs or held on mere suspicion and without proof that they have committed offences. I wish to state that, like me, many mothers are suffering every day thinking of the uncertainty and unjust punishment and torture their sons are going through.
Many mothers are older than me and their days may be numbered. Every other day in detention is an eternal punishment to the mothers meted out by the country. Dear Prime Minister, let not a single mother leave this earth not being able to cuddle and hug her son for one last time.
I beg you on behalf of all mothers - be he a JI suspect, Hindraf leader or anyone - no mother would want to leave this earthly life with the burden of not speaking to her son one final time. On behalf of all I pray to the Lord Al-mighty to give you the utmost wisdom to see this great unjust committed on our sons.
I beg and appeal to you. Please release them and shut down the Kamunting detention camp.
CHARGE HIM OR RELEASE HIM!!! Dragging this issue will not do anyone any good.
J Card members’ day
You know you are fucked when the wife happily gives you RM435 worth of Jusco vouchers and laughed the whole day.
It is J Card Members’ Day at Jusco Bandar Puchong today. For every RM100, you are entitled to a RM10 voucher. Adoi! Sakit!!! Sigh.
I don’t LOVE you. I just wanna SHAG you.
Love is a wonderful thing. You get to share your joy and happiness together. Go through rough times and come out stronger together. Most of all, enjoy each others’ company.
What is the worse part in a love relationship? You are not being acknowledged by your lover. Your lover is ashamed to let the world know that the both of you are in love. Even it is soooo farking obvious that both of you are in love/having a relationship but your lover denies it. Your lover lie tells you it is not good for the corporate/business image. Your lover tells you shitloads of excuses and you believe him/her. Your lover is in denial and so are you.
The worst it can ever be is when one or both are bloggers and they openly deny having a relationship with each other. Its not that others care but give your lover the due credit/acknowledgment lah.
Some obvious observations I noticed on the blogsphere are;
- Peaches and Coconuts
- Tim Sam Tams
- Me, you and a tiger dog name boo
- Ice cold empress and her skinny eunuch
Its sooo obvious they appear in each others posts. But they blog it in such a way that they are just friends. They even leave comments to make as though they are really just friends. Soooo pathetic and sad. Yah, some might say “its our farking relationship/lives“. Yaya, whatever!!!
Anyway, its none of my business. Just pity the person(s) involved not being able to share their joy with the rest of the world.
Come to think of it, just like my title, maybe they are just shag mates. Nothing wrong with that too.
P/s: I salute and respect those whom openly declare their love openly on their blogs/billboard. May you have eternal love. Me?, I am married to a beautiful woman and a father to a beautiful baby girl and most of all, I LOVE to PANGSAI.
50 most eligible AhKuas
Was at the waiting lounge of the Paediatrician this morning and picked one of the advertisement filled magazines. This month’s issue featured the 50 most eligible bachelors. Those buggers featured in the mag had so much make up on their faces, they put the Chinese opera actors to shame. Either that or the photographer was so lousy and had to Photoshop his work and his Photoshop skills sucks. Its fine to dab some make up during a photo shoot to cut the glare from the oily spots on the face but it was done to such extreme, it sucks.
Secondly, i wonder where they source these candidates. They have credit card sales reps Bankers, Businessmen, Models, Ah Kuas etc. I have plentiful of Leng Jais friends whom are self made millionaires, travels the world for charity works, CEOs, Ah Longs real bankers, bookies sports personalities, funeral parlour undertakers care givers, pork seller surgeons, liars lawyers, webhost (nay, that one leh) and even a few Datuks but all of them NEVER ever made it to these mags. Seriously, where do they get these AhKuas guys?????
Rant so much also no use lah. Buy one read one (don’t bother buying, 70% are ads) at the newsstand and you will agree to what i wrote.
Oh, when they have their so called winners party, go and see for yourselves. Either you won’t recognize them without their make ups or you have enough to use as cement to build a house. Tiu!
You gotta be kidding me
Taken from TheStar online;
Thursday April 3, 2008
Proposal to prosecute non-Muslims for khalwat
By IZATUN SHARI
KUALA LUMPUR: A seminar on Syariah Law review wants non-Muslims found committing khalwat (close proximity) with Muslims to also be held liable.
This was among the proposals made at the two-day seminar organised by the Islamic Institute of Understanding Malaysia (Ikim) and the Syariah Judiciary Department Malaysia.
Syariah Court of Appeal Judge Datuk Mohd Asri Abdullah said the seminar had proposed that non-Muslims committing khalwat with Muslims should also be sentenced accordingly, but in the civil courts.
“We don’t have the jurisdiction to sentence non-Muslims committing khalwat with Muslims,” he told reporters after closing the seminar on behalf of department director-general Datuk Ibrahim Lembut at Ikim here today.
“The Muslims can be sentenced in Syariah courts, and the non-Muslim partners can probably be sentenced in the civil courts, to be fair to both parties.”
He said the proposal, contained in a draft resolution at the seminar, would be forwarded to the Attorney-General’s Chambers.
“It is up to the Attorney-General’s Chambers or the relevant authorities to decide how to create such a law,” he said.
However, he declined to elaborate when the proposal would be forwarded to the Government.
Another proposal is to impose heftier penalties – of up to four times the current penalties – on Muslims caught for khalwat, prostitution, consuming alcohol and involvement in gambling activities.
Mohd Asri said Ikim and the department were proposing that the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 (Amendment) 1984 be amended to impose stiffer penalties of RM1,000 fine, or five years’ jail or 12 strokes of the rotan for Syariah Lower Courts and RM20,000 fine, or 10 years’ jail or 24 strokes of rotan for Syariah High Courts.
Current limits are a maximum of three years’ jail, or RM5,000 fine, or up to six lashes or any combination of these, and different states provide different penalties for these offences.
“This has not been reviewed since 1984. It has been more than 20 years,” said Mohd Asri.
There was also a proposal for Syariah judges to enforce whipping for these offences.
Another proposal calls for the establishment of a rehabilitation centre for those convicted of offences related to morals and faith such as prostitution and effeminate men, and enforcement of Section 54 of the Syariah Criminal Offences Act (Act 559) to set up such centres.
The seminar also agreed to a suggestion that a new provision be created for apostates.
You cannot clap with one hand. Sex without consent is known as rape. How can you imply your religious laws on others? Do you think you owned everyone?
There is this saying in Chinese; You should guard the Eagle and not the chicks. (something like that lah) Meaning educate your own people rather finding fault with others. Since this is a religious law, your people should be religious enough to understand what is Khalwat and the consequences.
Khalwat is happening everyday, everywhere lah. Young girls are being BANGED and young boys are BANGING lah. Its actually up to the individual and not the religion or their laws. Educate your people, guide them. If you can.
Sore loser racist
The election is over. The rakyat has chosen. I also don’t wanna write about all these political issues but this clown, the Cheap Minister of Melaka quoted this on NST online.
MALACCA, Sat:
Supporting the call by Umno Penang for all BN mega projects in Penang be stopped, Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam put the blame on voters who decided that they did not want the major projects by voting in for the opposition.
“We have to stop all major projects to Penang as this is what the people wanted. If we continue with the project it would be almost impossible for us to regain control of the State in the next General Elections,” the Malacca Chief Minister said.
“If we stop all major projects, the people would realise what they had lost and would then come back to the BN. This is the only way we could recapture the State in the future from the opposition,” he told reporters after visiting the Menara Taming Sari project near Dataran Pahlawan along Jalan Merdeka, here, today.
The proposed Penang mega projects include those planned under the Northern Corridor Economic Region (NCER), the second Penang Bridge, the light monorail transit system, the Penang Outer Ring Road, the Penang Sentral and the RapidPenang bus service.
“The people in Penang have clearly rejected development and they want a change,” he said.
In the March 8 polls, Umno only won two parliamentary seats and 12 state seats in Penang.
“put the blame on voters who decided that they did not want the major projects by voting in for the opposition.”???!!!???
Woi! You think UMNO owns the country ar? Your father owns the country ar? Is this a farking threat???!!! You are creating racial tension by saying this. You farking racist!!!
Please lah, think properly when you asslickers start barking lah. The rakyat voted the opposition because you people sucked. What the fark has it gotta do with not wanting development or major projects to bring the country/state to another level??!!
Sometimes you people make me wonder how the fark you all ended being politicians??? Just because BN retained Melaka, you are barking louder. Continue barking lah and you might just be the minority/opposition party in the next election.
Don’t you people farking learn from your stupid mistakes??? Why don’t you just get on managing the our country for us and bark less.
OK. Post elections rants are done. Normal posting will resume. That is if I post lah. Bwahahaha!!!
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Have some consideration lah. Tiu!!!……….