Books

I love to read..so much so that I don’t know what had I read so far..

So much input into my brain but so little of production.

Hopefully I could reproduce what I read so that I could remembered it better and also able to share my knowledge.

peace

Penang..Penang..Penang..

Govt raises development expenditure to RM230bil

Govt raises EXTRA RM30BILLION development expenditure….Hurray!!!but 2 of the most anticipated project stopped or “postponed”.

What is wrong with the statement above? Why are there a huge(I’m not sure about u..but RM30b is a huge amount for me) increases in development BUT you have to stop 2 mega project that will help to ease the suffering of the Penang people?

The priority during the remaining 9MP would be to focus on people-centred projects that would bring tangible benefits and improve the quality of life of the people.

I’m sorry to hear tht…Penang people..don’t worry…one day..the Monorail and the outer ring road project will considered PEOPLE-CENTERED projects…one  day..

I wondered..what’s the use of having all the 8MP, 9MP..when plans can be changed so often and so hurried..I want this I want that..Where’s the credibility of the GOV?

A promise is not a promise from the GOV when it is not fully, completely realized…this 2 project are “THE” project for the PENANG lang..although I do not want to see the MONORAIL in Penang..it doesn’t look nice…believe me with best witness-”KL monorail”..

Apart from categorizing the People-centered project..there’s another point which I’m quite puzzle with the calculation and implementation…Maybe because the $$ involved is too huge to calculate..

Dear Pak Lah..I’m confused..not my liking but the below..
1 Moving economy up value chain: Of the RM52.83bil allocated, RM18.93bil has been used up and the balance of RM33.9bil for projects under the remaining 9MP.
How exactly you wanna move the economy up the value chain? from where to where? from raw material to manufacture? I’ve seen a lot of manufacturer around in the industrial area..not enough?How are you going to have more manufacturer?

Moving to IT world? Call center? outsourcing company?how are you going to make sure that? having more courses on “how to make conversation with American”? Or are you going for the education…look at our UM…how terrible is their ranking in the eyes of the world..bullshit if UM is still the old glorious days..ask those veteran studied there..they can tell you the difference..

Have more OMB? Pensonic maybe? How is the gov to ensure this as well? Can you detail break down on the steps you are going to take since you know exactly the % of growth in each sector I’m sure you are backed with data…why don’t you put it up on the internet so to enlighten me or Malaysian as a whole?

5 Strengthening institutional and implementation capacity: Of RM17.9bil, RM7.12bil has been used (balance: RM10.78bl)
I wonder where is the RM7.12bil went…how exactly you going to ensure the whatever “strengthening institutional and implementation capacity”? OMG…you can do that? why don’t you do it in the 1st 4 years of your term? How are you going to spend RM10billion in making sure the capacity is enough? what is there to strengthen? I thought is the people that is needed to move and stick to plan?
What about the stopping of the Penang outer ring road? Don’t you think the decision is contradictory? You want to make sure all plans are properly implemented and achieve efficiency..now what?

“Implementation and project management capability will be enhanced to improve efficiency, ensure timely delivery of projects and minimise wastage,” it said.haha…yeah right..Ideal world…

haih…whatever…Cheras is still Cheras anyway..not much of buses no LRT, no Monorail, No feeder bus…just business developed by itself..hehe..

Another “broken promise”

I remembered I read the news last week saying that the petrol price will not increase until sept…”Government will not revise the petrol price until sept…”

Then, a economic forum were held. A Malaysian Economist Professor from LSE telling the local newspaper that the subsidy must be abolish in order for government to be efficient..hehe…guest what..this is the starting of the series of events to warn the public about the rise of the oil price…

After that, then were our 2nd finance minister telling that the petrol subsidy will be revise and will come out with a more benefiting to the lower income group..A policy to ban petrol selling to foreigners near borders..

So after a long week of hoo haa, then Shahrir  told the press, that government still haven’t decide on the price hike and the subsidy scheme…which was yesterday…

Look at what happened…petrol price increased to RM2.70 starting 5/6/08..

I must give some credit to our government…they have successfully manage our expectation so that we would not be too shock of the price hike….i.e. “Be prepare to experience the no subsidy petrol…” “Government are not able to sustain the subsidy anymore” “we must make sure the subsidy would not benefits our neighbours”..so on and so forth…from the rumors and hints and indication from everyone yet our government always play “guess my mind” game..

Next time, whenever our government spoke person deny or saying something which is very firm…be aware..is a hint not an answer…is a indication not a comfort pill…

When he says “No”…it can be no, it can be yes..in this case, the price increase was not announce by Shahrir..so technically, he is still true to his words…it was PM who announced it…lol..Do still remember about the election date?PM says the election date will not be so soon, then the following day he announced the date of election…hehe…why he wanna do that? I wonder about the shipyard as well…he said a resounding “NO”…

When he says “Maybe” or “not sure”….it will be yes…

When he says “yes”…and this only apply to petrol prices…it is definitely a resounding “YES”…hehe…for other promises “yes” it might not apply…

hehe..the question is..

To trust or not to trust..that is the question..

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Undercover

I’ve bought some books recently, in fact more than 5 books over the past 2 months.

Animal Farm, The Game, and the undercover series(Economist,  Jarkata, A day as a Gang Leader), etc..

1st I would like to touch on the undercover series..which actually I name it cause they have a salient feature that shared between them.

Undercover Economist- An Economist whom explained the mechanism of the prices and strategy that is hidden from us.

I actually have thought to become an Economist one day. Do you know what I would want to be an Economist?

Economist…Explaining logic in a way that everybody would feel intelligent because they don’t project future but merely explain what had happened and how did it happened. They don’t need to think of E=MC2 or atom bomb. They just took a subject and bitched the subject so that everyone understand about the subject.

Tim Harford is the author of the Undercover Economist who is also the columnist for FT.com

If you are interested and would like to know the cost of an Starbucks, please read the book. It would be help you to put a stop to drink Starbucks…I’m just kidding, I’ll still go to them for coffee only lesser nowadays due to there’s more choices nowadays(We got OLDTOWN mah)

I’m just kidding, OLDTOWN sucks big time…the cups are getting smaller and the coffee taste is getting weird.

Enjoy reading…more books review coming up..now reading the Gang leader for a day.