Corporate sectors (Burger King, Courts, Firefly) version of 1Malaysia – Sarawak not part of it?????

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20January2012

I am writing this with a pinch of salt.

Burger King Malaysia

Claims to be representing the company in Malaysia, but essentially missed out the meaning of Malaysia. Their promo does NOT include Sarawak because they DO NOT have any outlet here in Sarawak. When asked when are they opening an outlet, they just use the answer “soon”

If you dig further, they will say “KLIA, Sabah and Sarawak are under a different franchise”

Very NOT 1Malaysia

Courts

For Sarawak, Their promotion on Maxi Purchase free Ipad2 is actually the old Samsung Tablet whereas in other states, they are giving Ipad 2. Oh! By the way, Their interest rate can well be high enough for them to purchase 2 unit of such things. at 2.5% a month, I would rather pay with Credit card which charge at 1.8% per month.

Very NOT 1Malaysia

Firefly

They have stopped flying to Sarawak and they code share with MAS for the rest of the booked tickets. Their PR seems to neglect all the Sarawakian who has been promoting their service during their mere 10 months presence here in Sarawak. This chinese new year, they did however gave to bloggers in Semenanjung a box of goodies but not for those from Sarawak!.

Very NOT 1Malaysia

 

Now, can we get back to a plural society and treat Sarawakian the same as those from the Semenanjung?

POSTME

The radio advertisement quantified that the delivery service is only available in Semenanjung.

Very NOT 1 Malaysia.

4 Types Rogue Road Users in Kuching!

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19November2011

It is now a social issue! There seems to be different loads of road users on the roads these days.

1. Young Hooligans
I met one this morning, driving a modified Honda Civic – “type-R”?? This bunch of youngsters on the car thought that they own the road or something! Not only they tried to push people off the road, blocking other driver’s way, tailgating people at close range, stupidly, they drive dangerously with their vehicle. I wonder why their parent would allow them to drive  when they have no sense of safety for other users of the road. I do not think that the road bully I met this morning is matured enough to be on the road.

2. Incident Creator
Something my friend encountered yesterday, in both cases they ram a car at intersection/junction exit where the car involved is actually very much out of the way. The victims are both GM/Director of big corporates here in Sarawak, in both cases, the riders are Indonesian and in both cases demanded big sum of money

3. Weekender
These are the cars that come Kuching during weekends, you will know that they are not regular on the road when they drive extremely slow and was unsure where they are heading to. They don’t know where to turn and where is no-though-road. Their parking skill is also questionable. Sometimes I wonder if they really have proper driving licenses.

4. The regular offender.
As depicted in Kuching Driver Wall of Shame,  these are the regular law bender who is not really into thinking logically when they use the road. They only think of their own convenience and disregard of other people’s way and rights on the road.

KLIA2 Charades

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16November2011

Part 1: Labu@East

Several years ago, when Google Map makes it to the internet, A bunch of politician was browsing the google map and zoomed in particularly into the small island called Singapore. Zooming into the reclaimed sea outside of Changi Airport, there shows an extension of the airport which consist of a new runway build on reclaimed land.

The story ensue with one of them planning for a new LCCT in Sepang. One of which local airlines would love to be operating out of Subang as per Airasia request.

It was then with political intervention that a decision was made to build Labu@East into the new LCCT! What was more surprising was the building of a third runway.

At present, KLIA has two runways, both with clearing specification for 747 and only 32L has clearing good enough for A380. All these cost money to modify to suite. rasi

The change now has made KLIA the second airport in Malaysia to be within the specification for A380 after Kuching International Airport. It is within the wonders of people was to why there is the need to puff in a third runway as questioned by AirAsia boss here.

Back to what Airasia wants years ago, as stated here,  Airasia clearly wanted to use Subang as the hub of it’s operation. This was overruled overnight by the government decision and subsequently ended up with being the better option for Airasia which leads to the whole charade. I find it funny that in the third story, it seems to insinuate that Airasia wanted Labu and not Subang, but I am sure it was just the work of editors back then trying to make things sound better.

Still something is amiss here. Back then when the project was announced, the construction and cost was said to be privately funded and Sime Darby seems to be part of it. I was wondering how it will ended up with MAHB being the owner of the Labu@east and not Sime Darby or Airasia?

Part 2: KLIA2

All those charades was shoved up when the decision was then quietly die off. And then, came KLIA2.

a) The Labu@East was to cost RM 1.6bil. The KLIA2? RM 530.3mil. And the cost of the building itself seems to be 1/4 of the initial total cost of construction of RM 2 Bil.

b) Now back to the floor area, 242,000 (sq meters) = 2 604 866.32 sq feet or 350,000 sq ft?

c) Cost of Aerobridge which was factored into the RM 2bil initial cost, to build and not to build, the cost will stay. It is only in Bolehland that if you don’t need to deliver something in a project, you are to keep the cost of it. Several news has indicated that the cost will be above RM 2bil.

d) Charged separately for Aerobridge as indicated in one of the article that each use of the brodge is charged at RM 85 on a per use basis.

e) How much more will it cost from the RM 2bil? So far, RM 530.8mil for integrated building (Under BOT model with borrowings from ……), RM 269mil for Runway 3, RM 388mil for Electrification, RM 997.22mil for MTB2 and etc. (listed total above is RM 2,165.02mil)

Still missing from the equation is the ERL extension, Public Road System, CIQ and etc.

f) The numbers game. with 16mil passengers in 2010, It could easily drop 10mil passengers should Airasia moves out of KLIA. What is the rate of increase if the KLIA2 is made less accessible than the current LCCT?

g) the psc cost as charged by MAHB seems to be higher than those if Changi. I must agreed that the LCCT is really a sardine cane like. Hopefully the new KLIA2 will be more spacious. Question remains with that amount of floor area, will it all be used by Airasia or most of it will be taken up by retails lot?

** Disclaimer: Personal opinion expressed. Reader discretion is advised.

 

 

 

Can we get back to continue as a plural society? Please!!!!

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7November2011

Back when our right honourable PM taking the helm, he called for all walks of life in Malaysia to come together and live in harmony in a plural society. Thus formed the concept of 1Malaysia.

Still, recently, several fraction of society (both camp of politics), have a mind of their own. Thinking of their command of their own advantage over the others, they seems to be pushing some agenda through and forget about our society being plural.

As a leader, our right honourable PM strife to get the message through, I could not understand why some people would think otherwise to go against this concept of maintaining a harmony in the plural society. Whether you want to call it 1Malaysia, or you are against 1Malaysia, one must not doubt the intention of one being a leader trying to in-still harmony. But much as it seems, many doubt the intention and sincerity of such message. It is to my surprise that some fraction of society are ignorant of what they are doing. Some event doubt the intend. Whether you like it or not, the message is clear, there is the need of maintaining harmony in this plural society of ours.

Personally, I don’t think the naming is necessary. However, I do see the needs of such harmony being maintained. When one is selfish, they will think of what they want and they want other to be like them for what they want. But, as a leader, there is no more what they want that matters, but rather what our country needs, harmony, peace, prosperous society, no discrimination on other’s dispositions and conditions. I think most of these “leaders wannabe” do not know what the country needs but rather what they want or what their kind/associate/team/preference can prevail.

So, shall we all put down our differences and get back to living and maintaining a plural society, please!!!!

Disclaimer: Personal opinion expressed, reader discretion is advised!

Wikipedia – Sarawak

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26October2011

It looks apparent that for the last 48 hours or so, someone is too eager to be the CM of Sarawak.

As depicted in the screen capture below

A Change on Wikipedia on Sarawak

A check into the Wiki History shows that someone have been trying to be funny. I hoped MCMC will check into the identity of the culprit!

As depicted below in the screen capture of the history

Change History Wikipedia - Sarawak