Election is coming! Money is coming!

Election is coming! Election is coming!

This is the daily cry in Malaysia, now. How do the people know? Well, the government is giving out money to its citizens left and right. That’s how! I've got my RM 500. Thank you, sir. My vote is for you! This came about due to the  newly and conveniently established scheme,  BR1M -Bantuan Rakyat 1 Malaysia or if translated in English it is something like' assistance for united Malaysians'.

Election is coming! Money is coming! 

Another type of Transformer

Papers tell of people

Turning

Trash into Treasure

Waste into Wealth.

Oh, how I would like to

Turn

Rubbish into Rubies

Junks into Gems

Garbage into Gold

Scraps into Sapphires

Debris into Diamonds

Filth into Fortune

Peanuts into Pearls

Rejects into Riches!

And lo!

Would I be the world’s

Richest Recycler!

Malaysian Salary Increase - the actual situation

So the government is further increasing the salaries of its workers. Today’s (December 8, 2011) news in a Malaysian daily mentioned that Public Service director-general Tan Sri Abu Bakar Abdullah had said that 7% to 13% increment will be given to the civil service workers, also termed as government servants, from January 1 next year.

To me, there will be a ‘win-win-lose’ situation, taking the Major three races into account. Of the three major races in Malaysia, Malays being the mainstream of the population and being the concrete majority in the civil service, they will be greatly pleased. They will have extra money to spend. It will be a win situation for them.

The Chinese, who are the main business people in Malaysia to whose business premises the Malays will surely make a bee line for, will be rubbing their hands in glee; the money will gradually be filling their pockets and they will be laughing all their way to the banks. So it will also be a win situation for them.

The Indians, who make about less than 10% of citizens of Malaysia, do not have a really mentionable number, either in the civil service or in business segment. They are mostly employed in private factories and oil palm estates. These are the people who will lose out as others will have more money to spend, demands will rise and price of goods will undoubtedly increase. The income of the Indians will remain stagnant, as the private sector employers will rarely increase their employee’s wages. So at the end, the Indians will be at the losing end, thus making the situation a win-win-lose one.

How nice if the government can do something that will make it a win-win-win situation for all. My votes for you if you can do that!

Just For Fun

Man’s best friend is becoming man’s best dish. 

 Great words unspoken. Chicken: We serve mankind. In various ways. 

 No place in the cemetery? What a grave situation. 

 Man just arriving at funeral. Good mourning! 

 What a swinging time Tarzan is having! 

 Blacksmiths are great opportunists. They strike while the iron is hot. 

 Fishermen, they are always up to something fishy.

American complacency

The Americans used to champion democracy in other, somewhat, unfriendly nations, which included the freedom for the people to express themselves, by holding huge gatherings and protest marches. But they were either reserved or grudgingly supported the recent rallies and chaotic demonstrations that happened in ‘friendly’ countries like Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain and Yemen. They, explicitly, approved the protests in non-friendly countries such as Iran and Libya.

They thought such nonsense would not happen in their country, the great United States of America. Their nation would be always the leading example of full democratic rule, which the citizens understood well.

But alas! That was not to be! On Thursday, November 17, 2011, hundreds, if not thousands, of people gathered at the New York Stock Exchange, and the streets and subways of other cities to protest the bad economic situation and systems in the country. They called it Occupy Wall Street protests.

Wonder whether that was just a beginning. Hopefully, nothing follows.

No, I am not belittling the Americans. Just pointing out the turn of events. In this world of ours, nothing is certain anymore.