Sunday, August 22, 2010

Respek Sama Lu !!!


Saya sebenarnya ingin berkongsi sebuah email  yang saya terima bersabit dengan ayam sembelihan dan status halalnya. Saya dapati hasrat saya itu telahpun dipermudahkan oleh The Unspinners yang telahpun menerbitkan email yang sama di SINI.

Ada sebuah komen oleh seorang pengunjung blog ini yang berbunyi, "Kalau rasa syak kepada ayam yang dimakan, mulakan business bela ayam." Sekiranya ada sikap saling hormat menghormati,  kemungkinan besar perasaan was-was, syak wasangka dan saling tidak mempercayai tidak akan timbul dan tidak perlulah bagi seseorang yang lain menceburi bisnes yang sama  semata-mata hanya kerana timbulnya perasaan-perasaan negatif tersebut.

Masih ingatkah lagi kes mengenai bekalan makanan halal dan IKEA Mutiara Damansara? Waktu itu terdapat beberapa pembekal dan premis pemerosesan daging yang dibongkar oleh pihak yang berkenaan. Keraguan timbul terhadap status halalnya berikutan dengan cara pemyembelihan dan pemerosesan bekalan makanan tersebut. Ada yang premisnya terletak berhampiran dengan tempat pemerosesan daging babi 

IKEA Damansara telah terbabit dalam kes ini apabila terdapat pembekal sosejnya adalah di antara pembekal-pembekal yang disyakki. IKEA Damansara bertegas bahawa sumber bekalannya adalah halal. Saya pun pernah terbaca yang ada di antara pembekal-pembekal yang disebut dalam kes ini menafikan bahawa bekalan mereka itu adalah tidak menepati syarat status halal.

Apa yang menarik perhatian saya adalah tindakan susulan oleh pengurusan IKEA Damansara dalam hal ini. Walaupun belum terbukti 'tidak halal', IKEA Damansara telah menutup cafenya selama beberapa bulan dan melakukan pengubahsuaian termasuk menggantikan semua peralatan dapurnya  dan penyamakan mengikut kaedah Islam di samping memastikan para pembekalnya benar-benar mematuhi syarat 'halal' yang ditetapkan oleh pihak yang berkuasa. Kalau tidak silap, IKEA Damansara ada menyebut bahawa tindakan tersebut diambil kerana keyakinan para pelanggannya amatlah penting dalam perniagaan mereka.

Apa pendapat anda sekira ianya bukan IKEA Damansara, tetapi taukeh-taukeh tempatan kita? Apa agaknya tindakan mereka dan bagaimana pula tahap hubungan mereka dengan pelanggan-pelanggan?

IKEA adalah sebuah syarikat dari Sweden. Sebelum mempunyai dan berpindah ke gedung perniagaannya sendiri di Muitiara Damansara, IKEA telah menyewa ruangan perniagaan di 1-Utama (Old Wing). Sekiranya anda berkunjung ke IKEA Damansara, anda akan dapati bahasa yang digunakan adalah bahasa Inggeris dan Bahasa Melayu di papan-papan tanda, di tag-tag harga dan spesifikasi barangan dan lain-lain. Boleh dikatakan hampir keseluruhannya menggunakan hanya Bahasa Inggeris dan Bahasa Melayu. Saya beberapakali menerima katalog dari IKEA yang ditulis dalam kedua-dua bahasa tersebut sahaja.

Apa yang saya bangga terhadap IKEA ini?

Mereka adalah syarikat asing tetapi dalam hal ini nampaknya IKEA begitu menghormati agama rasmi negara serta bahasa kebangsaan negara kita Malaysia. Mereka bukan tidak tahu bahawa bukan semuanya rakyat Malaysia tidak memakan makanan tidak halal. Sekiranya mahu, mereka boleh buat 'derk' tanpa perlu mengeluarkan perbelanjaan besar untuk pengubahsuaian cafe mereka.

Mereka menghormati Bahasa Kebangsaan Malaysia walaupun mungkin mereka terdengar khabar bahawa golongan kaya yang sering berbelanja adalah kebanyakannya terdiri dari gologan yang tidak mengutamakan Bahasa Kebangsaan, terutamanya di kawasan KL/PJ ini. IKEA tidak pula menggunakan bahasa asing untuk menarik golongan yang sering berbelanja ini. Tidak seperti suatu ketika dahulu di mana CELCOM mempromosikan pakej 'Naga' untuk menarik golongan yang mengutamakan bahasa asing ini. Habis segala iklan CELCOM ini dibuat dalam bahasa asing dalam promosi itu. CELCOM tu syarikat Malaysia ke?


Baru-baru ini saya membeli lampu lantai di IKEA. Keputusan pembelian saya berdasarkan fungsi lampu, harganya, rekabentuknya dan lebih senang menjumpainya di pusat perniagaan seperti IKEA. Hati sedikit resah apabila terbaca "Made in China". Walaubagaimanapun saya lega apabila mendapati ada label QC (pemeriksaan dan kelulusan kualiti barangan) di bawah tapak lampu tersebut. Label QC ini memaparkan nama dan tandatangan pegawai pemeriksa kualiti dari IKEA sendiri.

Sebenarnya, bagi saya, sikap MENGHORMATI  dan keutamaan kepada pelanggan ini adalah agak lazim di negara-negara seperti Amerika Syarikat, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Jepun dan saya yakin banyak lagi negara-negara lain seumpamanya.

Mungkinkah sikap tersebut timbul kerana mereka sendiri amat menghormati negara mereka lalu sikap ini tertanam subur dihati mereka sehingga ianya tidak menjadi masalah kepada mereka untuk menghormati orang atau negara lain. Mungkinkah bagi mereka, PELANGGAN yang sebenarnya memberi kemajuan kepada perniagaan mereka, bukannya WANG pelanggan mereka?

Bagaimana pula kita orang Malaysia? Adakah kita benar-benar MENGHORMATI prinsip Rukun Negara dan Perlembagaan? Tidakkah kita maklum bahawa agama rasmi adalah agama Islam? Tidakkah kita dapat MENGHORMATI bahawa adalah haram bagi orang Islam  memakan makanan yang tidak disediakan secara halal? Sekiranya Rukun Negara dihayati dan timbulnya sikap saling menghormati, akan adakah restoran-reston "Tidak Halal" yang terletak bersebelahan dengan restoran "Halal"? Akan adakah premis-premis perniagaan yang membabitkan daging babi terletak ditengah-tengah kawasan kunjungan orangramai? Dahulu, saya jarang melihat keadaan seperti ini. Premis perniagaan daging babi biasanya akan berada disudut tertentu di mana ianya melambangkan sikap hormat kepada mereka-mereka yang beragama Islam.

Kenapa IKEA of Sweden dapat MENGHORMATI negara asing bila berniaga di bumi asing, sedang kita  tidak dapat menghormati negara kita sendiri walaupun kaki bertapak di bumi sendiri? Kenapa kita begitu "BIADAP" terhadap diri sendiri? Ajaran Agama Wang, tiada tuhan lain yang disembah melainkan tuhan wang? Semuanya kerana Wang? Bangkrapnya moral kerana Wang?


Kita sering terdengar alasan-alasan perniagaan seperti  "mahu untung", "hendak cepat", "perlu jual banyak", "kena pastikan pulangan besar" sehinggakan pelanggan, kualiti barangan, harga berpatutan telah diletakkan jauh kebelakang. Malahan berlaku penipuan, sorokan barangan keperluan, penganiayaan dsb. Adakah ini ajarannya Agama Wang yang menyembah tuhan wang?

Sekiranya kita tidak bersetuju dengan Prinsip Rukun Negara dan Perlembagaan yang ada, maka amatlah wajar bagi kita berpindah ke negara lain yang Perlembagaannya memenuhi citarasa kita. Perlembagaan bukannya tidak boleh diubah sekiranya wajar dan perlu. Tetapi lakukanlah bibit-bibit perubahan itu dengan cara terhormat, mengikuti saluran tertentu sehingga perubahan yang diutarakan tersebut dapat diterima ramai. Sementara ianya belum berubah, hendaklah kita mematuhi peraturan yang sedia ada. Jadilah seorang warga yang penuh SOPAN bukannya biadap atau khianat terhadap negara.

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

We Still Cannot Accept The Truth Behind It


DO NOT STIR THE MALAYS AND BUMIPUTERA !!!!!
Why can't you understand that !!



The 13th May 1969 Racial Riots
Analisis by Jebat Must Die (pdf file)
They are waking up .....

Read also, "Bangkitlah Melayu" by Dinturtle
And "Bangsa Yang Tidak Mengenang Budi", by GWM @House PK
And "Najib di Cerai Soi Lek Talak 3" by Tam Dalyell
And "Stop Outrageous Demands" by Big Dog
And "Jangan Terlalu Berani Mencabar" by Ridhuan Tee


MAY 13 couldn’t have happened if not for the environment of bad relations between Malays and non-Malays, which was generated in 1964, during the racial riots in Singapore.
But 40 years on, we are no better off. If I were to go out on the street now and slap a couple of Malay boys, there would be ethnic trouble.
We haven’t changed since 1969. We can’t even have one school for all our children. And we can’t even discuss the possibility of this without getting angry.
The Razak Report (in 1956, to reform the Malayan education system) stated that the main objective of the country’s education policy is national unity. But which school has achieved this policy in this country? Instead, someone came up with the slogan “Science for unity”. It should be “Education for unity”.
We need to cross the ethnic divide. Malaysians need to grow up together.
We need to make a very serious start to try to bring people closer together. There’s no need for the National Service Training Programme.
Sports, the cadet corps, scouts, girl guides — they used to bring our children together and they had this in every school. But these uniformed activities have been allowed to die, because the students have to study to get 28 As! And schools don’t have school concerts any more.
The prime minister should organise activities for the young, which will allow them to socialise. The government should plan for the younger generation to understand one another.
And they should be taught not to rely on their ethnicity for success. The New Economic Policy was meant to balance economic disparity among the races; any disadvantaged group would be helped. Unfortunately, the NEP was not implemented the way it was supposed to be, and it created a greater divide between the races.
The way it is now, it gives the impression that it’s a way for Malays to make easy money.
It’s a mistake to equate 1Malaysia with the Malaysian Malaysia concept. “Malaysian Malaysia” carries bad memories, because of the way it was used in 1969.
What people should understand about the Social Contract is, the Malays are not given privileges because they were the original inhabitants of Malaya: of course not. They were given privileges because the British came in by signing treaties with the Malay rulers.
After May 13, we came up with the Rukun Negara, which was supposed to be the national ideology. It was supposed to be planted in the minds of the young, so that they would have shared values and beliefs.
Unfortunately, schools just got the students to memorise it. If pupils don’t understand what they are studying, it’s no good.
People are supposed to learn about the Constitution, and understand the concept of parliamentary democracy and separation of powers, so that if they saw these being eroded, they would speak up against it.
There are various theories of what really happened on May 13, and how it actually started. But society’s still not ready for the truth — even among the educated.
We are unable to discuss facts without feeling obliged to apportion blame. But, with regards to May 13, the truth doesn’t matter. What’s important is that we should understand enough about it to avoid it.
Khoo, a historian and Suhakam commissioner, was on the research panel for the Rukun Negara
** bold faced by me


 
UPDATE

Pribumi Perkasa

Chua Soi Lek Sialan !!! - Gerakan Timur

Tahniah Kepada Hero Melayu - House PK

Bonology.com

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

While Bank Accounts Swell, Morality becomes Bankrupt


Received via email. (texts in blue are mine, added). How true this email is? Well, I don't know. Look around and answer that for yourself. I am still looking for that old piece on how they make 'fried kuay-teow', from old newspaper and 'sea-weed' from plastic materials. Yes! both sold to be eaten by human! And both, are china-made.

What the unscruplous and crooked people would go through just to make money !
 Subject: Worse than the Melamine Milk Scandal ?????

TOXIC Hairy Crabs, Eels, Turtles, Bean Sprouts, Farmed Fish - worse than the Melamine Milk Scandal Yale Professor Chan CM, in his lecture at Beida Univ about poisonous eels being sold in China and how widely the local eel farms are using hormones which remain in the human body sometimes for 7-8 yrs.

An Environmental Scientist whom he met at Suzhow told him "my relative who owns a bean sprouts farm said that because of the use of hormones, the sprouts normally take 5 days to be ready for sale are now ready in 1 day. Truckloads are sold to Canton and no one in his own village will eat the stuff they farmed. "

Hairy Crabs : Mostly from Jiangsu. Each year, the crabs became more affordable due to large harvest. They are bred using all kinds of toxins : hormones, antibiotics. From the baby crabs stage, the crabs are fed around 10 types of chemicals. In Fujian, they are worse, they feed female crabs with birth control hormones so that the mother crab will be plumb and ready.

24 hours after they were fetched, the crabs arrived at HK dinner table, but not before they were fed one last time with antibiotics so that they would stay healthy enroute. If you walk along the small streets in the Crab Farms, you will see many shops selling "Medicine for Crabs". There are at least 10 different kinds on their "menu".

Next Magazine Investigative Journalists took 12 Hairy Crabs for lab test. 11 of them have 土黴素 (sorry!  cannot read the characters). 6 have æ°¯é»´ç´ (sorry again!). All damaging to blood, and esp bad for pregnant women and foetuses.

If they tell you their crabs are fed organically (versus Chemically Fed), that means they are fed by decomposing carcases of dead cats, dogs, chicken. The dogs died from first being poisoned, or from diseases. The owner of the crab farm pulled from under a bed a dead carcass, deskin and dehaired it, waving a piece of the leg proudly pronouncing it as "organic feed" These dogs came from a private vendor that kills the dogs by poisonous gases. The dog died from chemical poisoning.

The investigative journalists from HK witnessed such display of "organic feeding" when the farmer tossed the dog carcass into the pond. They watched 2 crabs feeding on the decaying carcass.

The Fishery Dept showed that the most famous YC Lake for Hairy Crabs, at maximum can only produce 13,000 Class 1 Crabs. HK imported 13,000,000 crabs all claiming it's from YC Lake.

Jiang Su natural water engineer Mr Tong said the the whole of China claims that the hairy crabs they sell are from YC Lake. The only exception being those sold in Tibet, a desert.

Turtles, Snakes, are all fed by chemicals, as well as birth control hormones.

Toxin fed Crabs, snakes, eels, turtles, all fed for revenue, not forgetting fake milk powder, fish from fish farms, bean sprouts, fake soya sauce, fake seaweeds (where is that email I am looking ?), fake eggs ....... Color-enriched tomatoes, melon seeds, grapes...... all massive exploits to milk cash. (hmm.... why I am not surprised !)

Why is all that happening in China ?(again, any surprise?)
 

First: Greed.(look around you!)

Second: Lack of govt control. the govt cannot keep up with the sudden market demand, as the surging middle class have a lot more cash nowadays. (wonder why fakes, no quality standards and even hazardous to consumer products manage to make their ways here? Malaysia, an ever ready market for chinese products dumped by the USA and first world countries?)

3rd and most fundamental reason : This has led to the current problem of the maximization of profit at the cost of morality. (wow! any wonder ? Money, all the reason there is!)

4th: The lack of Family Values (as kids growing up, the only value is how to make money). The daily mantra is "Study hard to ultimately get rich."(sounds like our education system and In this god we trust!)

The adults feel that they have to make up for "lost" time when they were deprived under the Totalitarian regime when the govt kept what they harvested. While their bank accounts swell, they are morally bankrupt.

And closer to home. An email forwarded, copy-pasted below. 


An interesting letter to Tony Fernandez from a pax...... 


Subject: FW: AIR ASIA
NOV 9 — Dear Tony (if I may, or Dear Datuk Seri Tony Fernandez)

I have been meaning to write to you. I know you love getting notes from your AirAsia customers. You have a blog, several websites, wiki page and even Facebook, all for people to get in touch with you. I decided against writing you a direct email because I think what I have to say is widely shared by other people as well. So if you do reply to me, I can share your reply.

Let me congratulate you on your appointment as F1 boss and a trustee of 1 Malaysia Foundation. Second, congratulations on your titles after such a short career in aviation — I mean less than five years ago you were “call me Tony” then you became Datuk and now Datuk Seri. At the rate you are going, I suspect you will be Tan Sri by the end of next year!

The reason I am writing is because I keep reading how well your airline is doing— it’s making tons of money and ordering a massive number of Airbus planes. You have gone international with AA X, insurance, hotels and goodness what else!

Yet somehow I think you have lost your human touch and are now solely interested in making money, just like the blood-sucking Malaysian elite you joined recently. Yet you keep telling us, in your public interviews anyway, that making money is not your main aim but providing a “service” to the rakyat! How can we, the poor rakyat, not remember that before you descended from the mountain, we had to pay “sky high” prices just to fly. As you say, now “everyone can fly”. So, a big Terima Kasih from me and 28 million other Malaysians!

What I am talking about is your reluctance to use the passenger-bridge in all airports in Malaysia . You put the blame on MAHB’s high charges. I’m sure since yours is a volume business, MAHB will be happy to offer you a special deal since you must be their second biggest customer after MAS. I cannot believe that with the millions you are making, you cannot afford to use the bridge. Or if you are really desperate, I am sure you can add 50 sen to every ticket sold to cover part of the costs.
 
I say this because I took a flight recently from LCCT to East Malaysia . When we arrived, it was raining heavily. Several mothers with children, and old people, were reluctant to leave the plane. But alias, your crew literally pushed them off since they only have 25 minutes to fly out again. I felt so sorry for one of the old aunties who had to carry two bags (she was trying to save RM10 because of your no-free luggage policy) and there was no one from Air Asia to help her with an umbrella. One mummy with children fared even worse. She was carrying an infant and could not hold the umbrella properly. I asked one of the flight stewardesses to help her but she gave me a dirty look. I guess nobody wanted to be caught in a mini-typhoon. I tried my best my help her but she got soaked because the umbrella was designed for one person only.

I can go on and on, and described the scene at the staircase since we all had to walk up to the “arrival hall”. Let’s just say it was a heart-breaking scene. The old people had to climb up the stairs totally soaked, and I will not be surprised if they came down with pneumonia. One of the children slipped because the staircase was wet.

So, Tony, can you please show us your heart? Now that you travel first or business class, and no longer a member of the working class, can you just do this little favour for the rest of us? I am sure it can be counted as CSR and win you another award

Yours sincerely
James Chin

Friday, August 13, 2010

Malaysians (?) Who Don't Speak Bahasa Melayu or English


This issue was brought up following the news of attitude problems on the ongoing Population and Housing Census of Malaysia 2010:-
"...PUTRAJAYA, Aug 11 – Attitude problem among the public, especially the Chinese community, is the main challenge faced by the enumerators in the ongoing Population and Housing Census of Malaysia 2010, Chief Statistician and Census Commissioner Datuk Wan Ramlah Wan Abd Raof said today..."
Read HERE by BigDog and HERE by satD.

I did ask the census officials when they came to my house recently whether the report was true. They confirmed "the main challenge faced" as reported above.


A Malaysian who does not know his own Bahasa Kebangsaan? A great wonder! It is quite okay for a Malaysian not to be fluent in English (yet) but it is entirely and definitely NOT OKAY to claim being a Malaysian, but not fluent in Bahasa Melayu. And those who live here claiming to be Malaysians too, ought to treat the Bahasa Melayu as "your own tongue" and leave your mother tongue to your "mothers" whom by now were long in memoriam, rest in peace, in the faraway mother land. It isn't enough to just claim being a Malaysian. Are you a true Malaysian? Are you not making effort to be one?

Can someone who don't speak your mother tongue differentiate whether you are a foreign visitor (Halal) or a "Pendatang" (Haram) or a "Malaysian" (Fake) since all "sounded" about the same? "Look" also about the same? I think most can differentiate the visitors, but it is quite a challenge to differentiate between a "Pendatang" and a fake malaysian when the fake himself does not speak Bahasa Kebangsaan. A "Pendatang" is trying his luck here, but you who claim to be a Malaysian? What are trying to do? Why are you here? Why don't you go back to where your "mother tongue" belong? Why you get so agitated when labelled as "Pendatang"? It is all your own doing, is it not?

This issue of not being able to speak Bahasa Kebangsaan - we know that our borders are not all sealed up tight. There are humans traficking business going on all over the world. Has "Visa On Arrival (VOA)" anything to do in camouflaging the "Pendatang Haram" as "Halal" Visitors? Why there was no "deep thinking" before VOA was implemented? Why it seems the Ministry of Tourism is the supremo over KDN in this respect? KDN is chicken? No say on VOA? thus the country was flooded to a certain extent by illegal immigrants entering the border legally? At the end the day, VOA was scrapped not so long after being implemented. And to be replaced by VFS? Please, KDN! Have your say here. Study this thing in-depth. We dont know whether VFS will turn out to be good or bad. We know VOA was bad already. Don't just let the Tourism Ministry dictate over you and damage your NKRA. The border of this beloved country is entrusted in your hands KDN! Don't just play chicken!

So Mr. Prime Minister of Malaysia, can you now at least see the importance of having Bahasa Kebangsaan, not only for the reason of Unity (one common language is a cornerstone to unity), but also for security. Neglecting the Bahasa Kebangsaan is hazardous to the country's border and her citizens! So, before you get all excited with your Mandarin thingy, can you please first make sure all Malaysians are fluent in Bahasa Melayu and ensure that Bahasa Melayu sits at it proper place as accorded by the Constitution and Language Act? Take actions toward that - like only allowing the Bahasa Kebangsaan and English (as second language) in all public displays, advertisements, official businesses etc and make the Dewan Bahasa Pustaka as the respected Bahasa Melayu bearer in this world. The CIMB Chairman  said this:-
“CIMB firmly advanced meritocracy,” he said. “we consciously encouraged a multiracial environment. we banned the use of any language other than English and Bahasa Malaysia. we intervened to create multiracial teams. we encouraged a debate culture.”
You can do much better as the Prime Minister of this country, can't you?

For those who call themselves Malaysians, there is no excuse not to be fluent in Bahasa Melayu. It is in the Constitution! It is in The Language Act! If you are fluent, have some sense of politeness. Do not speak the language most people dont understand in public, here in Malaysia. Have some manners. It is "biadap" to behave this way in public, not only here, but elsewhere in other nations too.



and from M.I.M. - MCA & Gerakan Tidak Hormat Bahasa Melayu ?


Unless you are not Malaysian....

UPDATE
http://www.pisau.net/2010/08/komtaredar-risalah-tutup-pembohongan.html


    Thursday, August 12, 2010

    Money Versus Moral - Con Man Caught On Camera

    Please be careful. It can happen to you too.

    This one happened in Johor at a petrol station. The face, the car registration number, THE ACT, all recorded by CCTV. Pass it around.


    Friday, August 6, 2010

    Average Malaysians Are Wealthier Than The British


    My good friends, while well-wishing me for holiday,  told me to bring back "experiences" when spending time outside this "bumi bertuah". One asked me to look for RPK when in London! Ha! Ha! I have shared some "education system" and "language" experiences in my previous posts. 

    And these below, are some of things that caught my attention during the month-long holiday in U.K.

    1) White Bread

    "Two slices of bread is already over eating", remember reading something like that when I was helping myself spreading strawberry jam on my breakfast bread in Malaysia. Two slices of Gardenia, when folded , the slices become slightly bigger and thicker than a piece of Jacob Cream Cracker biscuit. "Must be a remark from a skinny and starving female model who eats a few green peas for lunch" I said to myself, because eating the two slices of bread feel quite nothing in the stomach.

    In UK the price range of a pack of white bread is something like from 40p (saw at Tesco) to GBP1.50 (the premium one), all packed in a quite same sized jumbo pack (I would say super jumbo pack). Now I can appreciate the remark probably made by the skinny female model. I felt really full with just two slices of white bread. The pack I bought was 79p, larger/longer in size compare to a-more-than-RM3 Jumbo size Gardenia's pack (ehem..jumbo pack not super jumbo). And each slices is double if not triple in thickness. Here in Malaysia, I bought almost everyday, a jumbo Gardenia's pack (consumed by 4 persons). In UK, we finished that 79p bread pack only after 2 or 3 days. That 79p bread is about RM(80 x 5), if you like to convert it.

    So which "Roti" has value for money and more satisfying? Looks like Malaysians have more power to buy "rotis" than the Brits!

    2) The "Everything is below 1 Pound" shops (i.e. 99p or less) - Poundland and other stores

    Yes. Everything! Just like the RM5 Daiso stores at The Curve & 1-Utama Shopping Centers. Daiso probably brings the "Yen100" from Japan. The "everything Yen100" store I found in Damansara Utama has a price tag of RM5.60 on every item in the store.

    No. The goods at Poundland and other below-1-pound stores are nothing like the China's goods you find at Nilai 's stores or at similar shops who sell goods that probably broke down soon after you bought it, or those manufactured with standards that could be harmful to human beings. They are not the products that have been dumped by "anti-dumping" law of USA either, I believe.

    And no. Poundland stores quite many through out UK, not only one store in the "Rich & Famous"  area/shopping center of PJ.

    Hmm.. one sells 3 cans of cokes at 99p and another store sells 4 cans!! My daughter had a field day buying colors pencil, pens, crayons etc all of jumbo sizes pack, below 1 pound each pack. Not that I really need them, but I got myself a set of drill bits and a pack of "gam gajah/super glue".

    When my Black & Decker drill bit became blunt (out of service), I went and bought one piece of masonry drill bit at RM7 in a hardware shop here in Malaysia. Not a Black & Decker quality and the so called "local" quality (the wrapping said it is made in China) drill bit went blunt and useless after 3 times drilling. Out of "geram" I bought Poundland drill bits set consisting 5 different sizes masonry drill bits and 5 different sizes drill bits for carpentry. 10 drill bit pieces all together, all at 99p!

    How much is that small bottle of "gam gajah/super glue" here? RM3 something, right? How much did I buy out-of-geram "gam gajah/super glue" at Poundland? You guessed it right! 99p for a pack of 10 !

    The drill bits and "gam gajah" essentially cost less than 50 sen each if you were to convert it to RM. There are many more items at Poundland store. Those items that "rakyat marhain" buy every now and then each day, essential daily items. Can someone tell me what "marhain" really means?

    And at a Clark shoes store, I bought 2 new pairs of Clark shoes! One pair at GBP10 and the other GBP15. How about a "nice and comfortable to wear" decent quality underwear (undies) 4 pieces at GBP2?

    Less than RM50 for a pair of Clark shoes? Can you get similar branded shoes here at that price? There are many more, but I am not going to blabber all those here, but on average, suffice to say that we Malaysians have more money than Brits! errr... not having more money, but pay more money for a lesser product compare to the Brits. (and probably of  lesser quality too!! - I mean do you like to buy a grade 1 Quality Check (QC) than a 3rd grade or fake QC product? Do you like to own a finnish Nokia exported to UK market or a chinese Nokia  exported to third-world countries market? Are you sure the Nokia that came from china is really a Nokia? Under licensed by Nokia or "under-table fake" Nokia?)

    Waaa! Only "Roti" and "Poundland" this post has become this long? I still have car fuel, low cost carriers, boot sale, watches, getting around, driving in UK, Malaysia - a solution to the chinese to circum-navigate anti-dumping law, and quite a few more "experiences" to talk about. But I better save them for latter. That is, if I remember to write all about them in future posts.

    No wonder "datin-datin" like to shop in London, is it London or the greater UK? he..he..he..Maybe the government can subsidize us, rakyat marhain, return air ticket to UK so that we can replenish our weekly  or monthly household needs at Poundland. Maybe RPK can slow talk to the guys or guy he knows to provide us a decent place to sleep while we are there? No need to be in central London. Maybe that guy who is going to buy GBP8.5 million home in London can spare a maid-room for us to stay for a while. Maybe the "48-peti-besi-dalam rumah" guy can lend his "peti besi" so that we can ship out items we bought at Poundland to share with our other rakyat marhain at home, whom may be don't like to travel that far. Maybe Taek Jho Low can provide us English Tea Party every night we are there, air-freight nasi lemak straight from Sungai Besi TUDM airbase as well! Dah lepas makan malam tu!. No need champagne la!

    What is "marhain" again, anybody?

    Tuesday, August 3, 2010

    Jiwa Yang Tidak Berbangsa Malaysia?


    Masih lagi mengenai Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Kebangsaan yakni Bahasa Rasmi negara Malaysia yang mempunyai kedudukan yang tersendiri sebagaimana yang dimaktubkan di dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan serta Akta Bahasa.

    Secara ringkasnya, setiap warganegara yang bergelar warga negara Malaysia sepatutnya mengutamakan Bahasa Melayu dari segenap segi selama mana dia bernafas di bumi Malaysia ini dan selama mana dia memegang taraf kerakyatan negara Malaysia. Perdana Menteri Malaysia juga tidak terkecuali.

    Perbuatan warga negara Malaysia bertutur dengan bahasa asing di tempat-tempat awam seperti di restoran-restoran, taman-taman awam dan lain-lain tanpa sebab-sebab yang munasabah adalah dianggap sebagai tidak mempunyai semangat nasionalisma dan boleh menimbulkan keraguan tentang sejauh mana dia benar-benar menyanjungi negaranya sendiri. Setidak-tidaknya, orang akan memandangnya sebagai suatu tingkah laku yang kurang sopan atau tidak beradap apabila menggunakan bahasa yang tidak difahami dikhalayak ramai tanpa mempunyai sebab-sebab yang munasabah untuk berlakuan demikian.

    Menyambung artikel yang dimuatkan sebelum ini, yang banyak menyentuh tentang penggunaan bahasa Kebangsaan, penulis ingin berkongsi pengalaman yang dilalui di tiga buah tempat sewaktu berada diluar negara baru-baru ini.

    1. Semasa menunggu untuk mendaftar masuk di sebuah lapangan terbang di negara Itali.
    2. Semasa beratur untuk menaiki pesawat di lapangan terbang yang sama.
    3. Semasa beratur untuk melepasi pemeriksaan imigresen di United Kingdom.

    Kami terserempak dengan tiga kumpulan "orang Malaysia" yang berlainan. Kumpulan pertama terdiri dari beberapa orang yang telah berusia bersama-sama dengan yang berusia muda. Kami jangka mereka ini kaum keluarga/kerabat. Kumpulan kedua adalah terdiri dari 4 orang anak muda. Dan yang ketiga adalah juga sekumpulan anak-anak muda.

    Mereka semua adalah "orang Malaysia" kerana kami nampak mereka memegang paspot Malaysia dan mereka semuanya dari keturunan etnik yang sama, iaitu cina.

    Yang menarik perhatian kami mengenai ketiga-tiga kumpulan "orang Malaysia" ini adalah, apabila bersembang sesama sendiri, mereka menggunakan bahasa Inggeris!.

    Bahasa Inggeris?!!! Seingat penulis, terlalu jarang sekali penulis mengalami keadaan seperti ini di bumi Malaysia. Selalunya mereka akan galak bersembang dalam bahasa ibunda. Tetapi bila berada di luar negara, tidak pula segalak itu dengan bahasa ibunda. Tidak segan pula berbahasa Inggeris!! Mengapa di restoran-restoran ataupun di taman-taman awam Malaysia, mereka ini galak bersembang menggunakan bahasa ibunda? Kenapa tidak Bahasa Inggeris? Jauh sekali bahasa Melayu agaknya!!!

    Penulis pernah ditegur oleh rakan berbangsa Amerika, apabila penulis bersembang dengan rakan se negara menggunakan bahasa Kebangsaan Malaysia, di bumi Amerika. Penulis juga pernah menegur "orang Malaysia", di bumi Malaysia, supaya menghormati rakan di sebelah dengan bersembang menggunakan bahasa kebangsaan, bukannya bahasa ibunda yang tidak difahami oleh rakan sebelah.

    Kata pepatah, "Di mana bumi pijak, di situ langit dijunjung". Adakah ni kes kurang adab? Keras lidah? Atau jiwa yang tidak berbangsa Malaysia?Ataupun kesemuanya sekali!


    Pemimpin-pemimpin negarapun, kalau bersikap acuh tidak acuh dengan kedudukan Bahasa Melayu di negara ini dengan asyik dok merenyam kepada bahasa asing, bolehlah juga digolongkan dalam golongan yang sama! 

    Orang Malaysia yang sejati ke mereka ini?

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