MageP’s Lab

Yesterday, Ex-Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir demanded that the Government should divulge the name of those who have been given Approved Permits (APs) to import cars as a means of removing any suspicion of improper conduct. Quote:
“The best way to silence any accusation of unfairness is to publish the names of all who have been given [...]

To setup a university as "a symbol of the party’s strength and struggle", Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi common sense prevails and kindly rejected some fantastic plan by no other than the Higher Education Minister Shafie Salleh. Quote:

"UMNO tidak perlu terikut-ikut dengan keupayaan sesetengah parti komponen Barisan Nasional (BN) memiliki universiti dan kolej kerana ia [...]

Yesterday, the Bukit Mertajam Umno division chief Senator Musa Sheikh Fadzir proposed that the Penang Chief Minister’s post be rotated among Barisan Nasional parties, as a way to prove that there is tolerance and understanding among the coalition parties. Also, he claimed that if the rotation system could be implemented in Sabah, this should be [...]

I’m experiencing reflexology while I blog this.

It’s pain but desirable!

I’m neither a Minister or a taxi driver, but I understand their plights of being caught between bureaucrats and rising fuel prices.

Sharmini Darshini interviewed President of the Malaysian Taxi/Limousine and Hired Car Drivers and Operators Association, Yusoff Lahir and he is more than concern of taxi drivers’ welfare.

Over the interview, I can notice that he [...]

Yesterday, I visited Miri, an oil town which is about 2 hours drive from Bandar Seri Begawan. David, a contact of my close buddy Joo Hong, met up with us at Boulevard Hypermarket, one of the biggest shopping complex in Miri town.

After lunch in the food court, we proceeded to Miri City Fan, [...]

Deputy Information Minister Donald Lim urged public to assist by recommending part-time newsreaders in Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew and Cantonese for the RTM’s Chinese radio station Ai FM, in order to cater for the need to revert back to the 40 minutes dialect news broadcast, as promised by him on April 26.

Last March, the ministry trimmed [...]

Are you “addicted” too?

For Malaysia to be a developed nation, it must rid itself of three “addictions“, said Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi during the Harvard Club of Malaysia dinner at Sunway Lagoon Resort Hotel, yesterday.

The three “addictions” are cheap foreign labour, subsidies and rent-seeking.

However, there is a statement by Pak Lah that really attracts [...]

From Brunei to KL to Penang, I must say that I experience a tremendous “traffic shock”.

Whenever anyone critisize Penangites as kiasu people, driving recklessly and own suckier driving skill compare to those who drive in KL, I always defend that, coming out with tonnes of theory.

But now, I understand why we’re being labelled in such [...]