RM50 service tax for each Credit Card owned

One of the announcements in the Malaysia’s 2010 Budget is that; a fee of RM50 service charge will be imposed per credit card to the people. They (Government) believe that would discourage the people to apply for credit cards; in order to be out of credit card debts.

I see the effort that the Government decides to help improve the lives of their people by imposing higher tax rates on items such as “service tax” for restaurants, “import duty tax” on consumer products especially on alcohol and tobacco and international cards;- all these efforts is to protect their people who happened to be mindless kindergarteners and is needed to be mothered in how they should live their life.

Credit cards are deemed to be evil to those who are not able to control their spending and hence abusing their card; but in the end they do pay a price for it. Credit cards are also good in a way that will ensure that if you do get robbed, you won’t lose your money too.

With the high crime rate; mostly unsolved snatch thieves cases that resulted to loss of valuables and sometimes their lives too. One of the major reason why we don’t carry a lot of money to pay our bills or grocery shopping or any spending needed that requires a huge sum of money. Now with this RM50 service charge imposed plus high interest rates; this will definitely be an extra burden to the people, as some is at the amidst in trying to finish off their debts so that they are able to cancel it off and now is being burdened not only on the high interest rates and annual fee by the bank, but also pressure from the Government.
On top of that, it will also increase the number of snatch thieves knowing that with such credit card fee imposed, we are forced to carry a huge sum of money around and once money is stolen, we dam well know, you can never get it back and your case will never be solved.
I see that they try their best for the people but sometimes their methods are unexplainable with no strong facts to support their decision. It feels like they just did the budget out of a teh-tarik discussion at the mamak shop by the corner.
Imposing RM50 per credit card will drive a lot of Malaysians to heavy debt, some who are facing it might resort to crime, suicide and bankruptcy.

I am sure there is another method to discourage others from applying for credit card without having to take their hard earned money along side with it too. Aren’t the unreasonable tax and toll charges good enough; to the fact that you need to squeeze more money from your own people. The same people who are inclined to allow you to take a cut off their salary just to pay yours.

Charlie’s Angels Grandma

I found this piece of news hilarious; 3 senior citizens apprehended a naked man who broke into their house and tried to rob them. I can imagine the state of that guy right now being caught in act like that. The strength of these 3 ladies ranging from 58 to 60 years old managed to hold a 30 year old; is simply remarkable on top of that, he becomes a laughing stock at the police station. I bet his “Little brother” must have shrunk massively and on top of that, this makes him the crime clown of the month.

Taken from Berita Harian
Warga emas guna langsir ikat tangan, kaki suspek pada katil
ALOR SETAR: Keberanian tiga warga emas, masing-masing berusia 58, 59 dan 60 tahun berjaya menumpaskan percubaan seorang pencuri yang memecah masuk rumah mereka, di Anak Bukit, di sini, malam kelmarin. Dalam kejadian jam 8.30 malam itu, pencuri yang menyangka akan memperoleh habuan kerana rumah berkenaan didiami warga emas, tewas apabila ditangkap.
Ketika kejadian, tiga warga emas tersebut, Anisah Sheikh Yahya, 60, dan adiknya Zainal Abidin, 58, serta kakak iparnya, Norizan Shafie, 59, sedang menonton televisyen di dapur rumah setingkat itu dan tidak menyedari kehadiran suspek yang masuk melalui tingkap di bilik belakang.
Anisah yang juga pemilik rumah itu berkata, dia hanya menyedari kejadian tersebut selepas menantunya, Azzanudin Mohd Rejab, 33, membuka lampu bilik belakang untuk mengambil beg pinggangnya yang tertinggal sebelum terdengar jeritan.
"Kami bertiga yang terkejut mendengar jeritan itu melihat seorang lelaki tiba-tiba keluar dari bilik belakang dalam keadaan bogel sebelum masuk ke bilik depan.
"Kami menangkap lelaki itu yang terperangkap di bilik depan kerana semua tingkap berkunci," katanya.
Anisah berkata, Norizan dan Zainal Abidin bertindak memegang lelaki itu dan menjerit meminta pertolongan jiran.
Katanya, lelaki itu meronta untuk melepaskan diri tetapi dengan kudrat yang ada, ketiga-tiga mereka memegang mangsa dengan kuat untuk mengelakkan suspek berusia 30-an itu melarikan diri.
Katanya, suspek yang hanya memakai tuala mandi masuk melalui lubang angin sebelum menanggalkan tualanya di luar rumah, manakala rakannya sempat melarikan diri.
"Disebabkan suspek berbogel, saya membaling langsir ke arahnya untuk menutup badannya sebelum polis tiba.
"Kami turut mengikat tangan dan kakinya pada katil," katanya.
Ketiga-tiga warga emas itu tidak mengalami sebarang kecederaan malah suspek gagal melarikan barang berharga yang terdapat di rumah itu

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Bad Customer Service

I have been listening to the radio station with regards to a rude sales person at a high end boutique in KLCC and even when he found out that he was on air, he was hostile towards the radio DJs. With this situation it has prompt me to blog about….”Our Malaysian Customer Service”

Regardless of high end or low end fashion boutique or restaurants, as long as you are serving a customer, the service has to be good. We cannot emphasize that good customer service must only be given at high end boutiques but this must be stressed to all those in customer service line. I am not trying to say that all the sales person in Malaysia has bad customer service and must be shot in the head; we too have our fair share of bad customers too, which I will blog another time.

Today, I would like to share with you my experiences with bad customer services, which includes, service line, boutiques and even restaurants. Recently, I have switched from Digi to Maxis, due to the fact that Digi does not have 3g technology to support Blackberry users. I dreaded the day I had to go back to Maxis. I am sorry to say, Maxis needs to buck up their customer service to at least a Digi level. The phone operators are fine but not the ones at the Maxis Centre, in fact I get better services on the phone with operators that the ones at the service centres. Their face when serving me, pardon the use of my harsh words, like shit. No smiles nothing. I do not expect them to treat me like a princess but at least more humane.

The associate did not listen to my inquiries and in fact seemed LAZY to aid me with my blackberry settings. I was annoyed to the fact that I said out loud to Esther, the victim of my bitchyness standing next to me; “He looks like he wants to start a fight with me” enough for him to hear and after that, he had a fearful look on his face and began to change. Still, his service was crap; I didn’t get proper instruction for my settings and had to call up the Maxis operator to get it done. Mind you this was in Maxis SERVICE Centre at Sunway Pyramid. Believe me; I get better services at a Pasar Malam as compared to them.

Also at another incident at a Phone shop in Sunway Pyramid, My baby aka Blackberry was injured, thanks to my butterfingers one day. I went to a particular phone SERVICE shop and asked them whether they repair phones, again Sunway Pyramid is like the backyard of my house, so I don’t dress to impress. With plain bathroom slippers, a track suit and a baby T with no make up. The guy didn’t event said yes or no but looked at me and said, “Sorry we don’t service NORMAL phones”
I looked at him stunned and responded, “Oh, sorry, I will look for another shop that will fix my blackberry”
Immediately his face changed and smile, “Miss we fix blackberrys”. I looked at him with a scowl, “Ok thanks, please be careful when you fix it and try not to scratch it, it’s a limited edition from UK.”

Another incident, which took place in 2007: me being a convert Chilis restaurant follower; thanks to Deedee and her constant crave to chilis. I was at KLCC with a group of my colleagues when we were treated rudely by the RESTAURANT MANAGER at Chilis. Long story cut short; He was obnoxious and told one of my colleague off when he told us not to play a fool when she asked for extra seats for my other colleagues. Mind you we are not sakai-s. I was quiet the whole entire time. When we left, I smiled at the RESTAURANT MANAGER and took his namecard and waved at him. I googled for the main headquarters in USA and dropped them an email stating the incident and the name of RESTAURANT MANAGER. To my surprise within 2 days, I received an email that was personally sent by Chilis, General Manager. I have erased the names.

Dear Ms 000,

Thank you for your e-mail. Your complaints has been noted and I would like to apologize for the way my manager (erased) had handled the situation. I have talked to him and we hope that you will come back to Chili's again.

We are sending you RM100.00 "Be Our Guest" vouchers for your next visit. The vouchers can be redeemed at any of our outlets in KL. Feel free to contact me at (a handphone number) on any further comments.

Thank you

Yours sincerely,

000000000
Rest. General Manager

Morale of the story, if you want to complain and want it to be effective, google for their website. The stupid feedback sheet does not work, hit the headquarters, and make a scene. Not to be drama but we pay 10% customer service charge for a reason.
I know most of us Malaysians keeps quiet when someone scolds us or just walk out when we are being treated badly. I say fuck em! hard! and sandpaper their fucking face. you are not going back there again so what not make their experience memorable. Of course do it properly and not like some angry aunty fighting over a blouse at a sale.

Drink beer and get canned

Prisons Dept waiting for order to cane

KAJANG: The Prisons Department is ready to cane Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno for drinking beer in July last year.

Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop said, however, that the punishment could only be executed after the department received the order from the Syariah Court.

“The department has trained officers to carry out the whipping and they are just waiting for the directive to do so,” he told a news conference after a Prisons Management Course certificate presentation here yesterday.

Kartika, 32, of Sungai Siput, Perak, was fined RM5,000 and ordered to be given six strokes of the cane by the Kuantan Syariah High Court on July 20, after she pleaded guilty to consuming beer at the Cherating Bay Lounge, Hotel Legend, Cherating, on July 11. — Bernama

My Take:
And first time Rape offenders gets away with the canning execution.

I'M BACK!

It has definitely been a long time since I last blogged. I must say that I am lost in the political world, well not entirely; I was busy dealing with the Sarawak Government ministry and meetings with them on various projects. So the traveling took away a lot of my time. Blogging again did not strike me until one day, my old friend; CK dragged my sorry ass to this event at the Blog House after a long time. I watched how these bloggers discuss political issues and boy, was I so lost. I didn’t even know RPK is released from ISA detainment and is still in hiding. Give me time to update and get back on my feet and I will resume as soon as possible.

Many hugs and yes, I missed you guys. Do I have a lot of reading to do now..=p

A Slap On the FACE

Najib becomes our new prime minister today....

Khairy aka Son In Law to Badawi -- not listed in the cabinet..
when the results were announced - Khairy - tidak disenaraikan (not listed)

Was a huge slap on the face for him, on top of that, Mukhriz, son to Mahathir was listed in the cabinet... gosh what intensity.

Drama Mingguan Ini – Toll Hike tak jadi..

No offence to Malaysian cheap dramas; the acting and camera lighting, costume designs, MAKE-UP and hair – you guys have a long way to go… I need not mention which TV station but I am sure we all know to which I am referring to.

Just like any drama shows, there must a scape goat aka villain to make the good; look way too exaggeratedly HOLY. In every country we all have our fair share of monsters or villains invading the city. For example, Japan has the worse villains that kacau their country, they have problems with Godzilla, evil pokemon monsters and every week they need their hero Ultraman and his Ultra-family to help protect them from it.

Unlike Malaysia, we are in a boring country, the only monsters we have are our Politicians and they are not as cool as the Japanese. They, the Politicians have conducted many episodes to try and win the Rakyat’s heart. They act like Ultramans that will cause the Rakyat a temporary anxiety to gain their trusts in them. (You can refer the similar political tactics from Bush; watch Zeitgeist and The Illuminati for reference).

First they announce a toll hike and then suddenly… tadaaa….. a hero steps in and saved millions in deferring the toll hike – A truly cheap stunt.
Honestly, I am not surprised with their plots but then again, if the toll did not hike.. I am all cool with it and still will VOTE AGAINST THEM!


In another news....
Here are our drama boys again... this time they are currently featured in a movie - Gangs of Malaysia. Unfortunately, Leonardo Dicaprio or Cameron is not the main actors for the movie.