Head you Win, "Toll" I Pay ?

I have to drive down to downtown Kuala Lumpur the other day to attend to some personal matter. Guess what, we do have beautiful highways but the costs of using the highway is nothing but disgraceful and immoral ! Imagine, travelling from Subang Jaya to Kuala Lumpur, I need to pass through 3 tolls, costing an average of RM 13.20 for a round trip. Coupled with the high costs of Petrol, probably cost about RM 25 for a round trip, these high charges are politically sinful and socially immoral!!!!

Of course, I can always use the alternative route and keep my mouth of the grumpy complaints. But again, despite all the personal taxes, petroleum taxes, and road taxes collected, did the government made an effort to upgrade the existing alternative routes and made it comfortable for low income road users like me ? Your guess is as good as mine ! Why am I paying all these taxes for ? Feeding the rent seekers and parasites ?

Besides, all these toll concessionaires are given soft loans by the government to built and managed the toll roads, the government even guaranteed these toll concessionaires revenues and profitability. So, it is legitimate to raise the toll charges to ensure profitability for the toll concessionaires, otherwise, the government may have to "compensate" the concessionaires! I am sicked and tired of all these unconsciously incompetent people running around negotiating loop sided commercial contracts to socially irresponsible commercial enterprises. The said, these are prices of progress. BUT, have we progress ? If I protest, I will be perceived as trouble maker and unpatriotic !

Despite the promise of transparency, it is equally sickening to note that these infrastructure agreements between the government and the concessionaires are veiled in secrecy. Did the government made an efforts to disclose the agreements and its rationale for public scrutiny? What justification does the toll concessionaires have to increase the toll charges ? Why can't the government seek the toll concessionaires to transparently disclose their accounting books.

I do wonder, how much it costs to built the toll roads ? how much soft loans the government extend to the concessionaires, what revenue guaranteed and profit assurances are given by the government to the concessionaires ? Are we being force to pay exorbitant toll charges due to unfair practices and operational inefficiencies of the toll operators ? Does it make moral sense for the government to compensate the toll operators where the amount of compensations is significant compared to the cost of constructions ? Does it make sense for the government to guarantee the toll operators profitability and revenues ? What if the losses of toll operators are due to inefficiencies and questionable management practices ? Why are tax payers being subject to these immoral financial abuses ?

Poor wage earners (like me) are working our butts off to pay high assessment rate to the local town councils, high income taxes to the federal government, high "subsidized" prices for every litre of petrol, occasional summonses issued by the town council for parking tickets, and all sorts of direct and indirect taxes, etc... Now, I am also subject to pay high toll charges for using the "tolled" roads. In short, I and many generations of Malaysians are dubiously subjected to the mercy of the contractual agreements between the government and the concessionaires.

Somehow, I am getting the discomforts and ill feelings of being cheated by the government who intentionally leave out road users' welfares in the equation of balancing the rights of the concessionaires and the consumers like me. The scale is unfairly tilted to the side of the concessionaires. Lands are allocated to the concessionaires, taxes collected are being extended as soft loans to them by the government. Why can't the government use the money to be loaned out to construct new roads or to maintain and upgrade existing roads ? Is the government already arrogantly out of touch with the realities and plights of average Malaysians ?

Please don't get me wrong, I am all for economic progress and agreeable that, there is a price to pay for progress. But, at what price ? Are we building highways to foster economic progress, or, are we, in the name of economic progress, building highways to cause unnecessary financial burdens to all Malaysians ?

Higher toll ? Again and again ? I guess I am already very fed-up with these never ending demands for higher toll charges. I simply don't care anymore ! For that matter, the toll operators can even raised the prices by 1000% ! Anyway, 2008 general election is coming soon.... I have already made up my mind ! Happy Retirements to all those unconsciously incompetence, decadence, arrogance, ignorance, and rent seeking politicians.

Irish Joke of the Year 2006

John O'Reilly hoisted his beer and said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life, between the legs of me wife".

That won him the top prize at the pub for the best toast of the night!

He went home and told his wife, Mary, "I won the prize for the Best toast of the night"

She said, "Aye, did ye now. And what was your toast?" John said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life, sitting in church beside me wife."

"Oh, that is very nice indeed, John!" Mary said.

The next day, Mary ran into one of John's drinking buddies on the street corner. The man chuckled leeringly and said, "John won the prize the other night at the pub with a toast about you, Mary."

She said, "Aye, he told me, and I was a bit surprised myself. You know, he's only been there twice in the last four years. Once he fell asleep, and the other time I had to pull him by the ears to make him come."

Hatred be thy name, and God luciferizing.....

I read a news article in the Herald Sun today, and was quite disturbed by misguided and narrow minded views of a cleric. The news article claimed that an influential cleric from SYDNEY has been caught on film calling others pigs and urging children to die for his GOD.

In the video lecture, the cleric said “Today many parents, they prevent their children from attending lessons, Why? They fear that they might create a place in their hearts, the love, just a bit of the love, of sacrificing their lives for God. We want to have children and offer them as soldiers defending the religion. Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a holy warrior. Put in their soft, tender hearts the zeal of jihad and a love of martyrdom.”

He also denounce non-Muslims as kaffirs. According to him "(Kaffir) is the worst word ever written, a sign of infidelity, disbelief, filth, a sign of dirt,”

Well, who is the brainless moronized PIG and cockfirs ? Probably he is looking at the mirror and describing his own image. What else can I say ? In this world, there are always people born out of hatreds, live in hatreds, and eventually die in hatreds.

I am a non Muslim, and in the name of DOG and Mother of all PIGS, would it be too much of a asking for mother fuckers and bastards to stop calling non Muslims kaffirs ? All religion glorifies life not death, not hatreds, not revenges, not ignorances, not filths, not arrogances, and not Stupidity. So, please keep your hatreds and pissful values to yourself.....

According to Chinese astrology, the year 2007 is YEAR OF THE PIG. And, PIG happens to be ONE of the TWELVE most important celestial animals blessed by the Almighty. Dear preacher man, in case you don't know, there are five types of PIGS according to the Chinese astrology that dates back more than 5000 years - the metal PIG, fire PIGS, earth PIGS, water PIGS, and wood PIGS. It doesn't really matter what type of PIG, a PIG is still a PIG, and they are all good PIGS. It is an honour to call another person a PIG. So, you farting PIG, are you calling me a PIG ? Oh yeah, I am such a lovely and cute pig ! Thank you so much ! The compliments are mutual.

Boycott Indonesian Coffee ?

According to the WWF, Indonesians are illegally clearing land in the national park located in Bukit Barisan Selatan to grow Coffee. Bukit Barisan Selatan, located in Sumatra island, is the habitat for endangered species such as tigers, elephants, and rhinos. Annually, Indonesians illegally planted and harvested around 20 thousand tons of coffee beans. These tainted beans are then mixed with legally grown beans by local traders for export. If this uncivilized clearing of lands persists, the protected species of rhinos, elephants, and tigers will become extincts and wipe off the face of earth forever.

Bukit Barisan Selatan is one of the last few protected habitats in the world for the critically endangered species. Indonesia is the world's largest exporter of robusta coffee. Most of the instant coffee we buy from the shelves of supermarkets in Malaysia are made from Robusta coffee.

My dear beloved religiously righteous in Indonesian, firstly, without fails, every year you persist on your rights to pollute the environment of neighbouring countries by "slashed and burned" of jungles for cultivations of crops. Now, you are also slowly killing off endangered species for the sake of few extra beans. What is wrong with your narrowly congested and retarded minds ?

Kanlinlowboo, I am a habitual coffee drinker. I did not know, my innocent drinking habits are actually choking endangered species into extinction ! God forgive me for my unintentional sinful act. From now on, I will boycott buying coffee originated from Indonesia.

Bikini or Burrrrrrrrrkini ?

Finally, the kwai-lan kwai-por's Bikini meets its match with the religiously correct swimsuit - Burqakini, or Burkini for short. Its designer and inventor, Aheda Zanetti, now thinks that the Burkini will take the world by storm. With Burkini, Muslim women can now have the freedom to hangout at the beach and be seen. There is now no excuse for religious men to forbid women from hanging out at the beach and ride the waves.

With Burkini, the face, hand, feet, and infact every inch of the body is covered and concealed. Religiously inclined women can now participate publicly in aquatic sports such as swimming and God knows what, and what, and what......

The torpedo like bathing costume is designed by Australian designer, Aheda Zanetti. She claimed it is a cross between a burqa and a bikini. A cross ? It looks more like a Burka over a Bikini! The polyester suit is made up of pants and a long-sleeved thigh or knee-length A-line top with head covering. It is water-repellent, UV-resistant and comes with middle eastern designs.

Funny, I have no intention to show any disrespect to any religion, but I still like thing the way it is. A beach is supposed to be blessed with wonderful sights of beautiful women lustily clad with skimpy bikini. That's what made the women desirables. That's what made my urge boils. That's what made me women lover. That's what motivated me to work harder for sinful material gains. Parading "Banana in Pyjamas" to pollute my sights at the beach ? Come on, give me a break !!!! I hit my forehead, I rolled my eyes, I shaked my head..... I shaked my head.......