Rants Category

Crime at Setapak – Part 2

In: Local, Rants

After my recent ordeal with the baddies less than a month ago – i promptly lodged a complaint to dbkl@dbkl.gov.my and jka@dbkl.gov.my , emails i gathered via the DBKL website.
Yesterday – i received this letter in my mailbox :

I’m not sure if my local rep had a part to do in this – but credit [...]

Crime at Setapak

In: Local, Rants

Something unfortunate happened to me yesterday night. It feels rather surreal for me to write such a mail, when i see so many in passing in my own mailbox.

CRIME AT SETAPAK

Dear Neighbours of Jalan XXXX  -

My name is cglow and I stay at No YYYY, Jalan XXXX. I am 6 feet tall and by no [...]

I’ve gotten this from one of my colleague, a factoid that has been floating around the web commenting on the recent reduction of personal EPF contribution from 11% to 8% -
Assume monthly basic salary is RM4000.
- If your monthly EPF contribution is  11% ( RM440 ), taxable income = RM3560, income tax [...]

Borrowing Lending Money to a Stranger

In: Rants

Today on hustled walk down swanston street for my weekend groceries, a young lady approached me and claimed that she had lost her wallet and needed to borrow some money to travel back by train. She claimed that she has never done this before and would give me her mobile number and will arrange to [...]

Oil Hikes and Public Transport

In: Rants

I’ve been in Melbourne for 1 month and find myself deeply impressed with it’s public transport, under the umbrella brand metlink. The trams and trains are always on time, a far cry from the dysfunctional system we have back home. All we ask for with our tax money is an attempt in efficiency and public [...]

Sicko – The world’s best country

In: Rants

If you are thinking of migrating to another country, Michael Moore will show you in this clip where you ought to be.

Rolling Shit

In: Rants

Aptly on a Friday ( or has it passed Saturday ? ) , this appeared in my mail box today. Bear with my short post as i need to get back to shit work

Scientology = Cult

In: Rants

Oops… mentioned the forbidden word. You might want to make up your own mind on the “religion” known as Scientology.

Online Signatures

In: Rants

Online reservations can be an interesting experience.
Click below in sequence to find out -

For my “digital signature” – i had to :
1. sign on a piece of white paper
2. take a photo of my signature ( now it has crossed the digital realm )
3. photoshop it until it’s nice and clean.
Splendid … i can use [...]

Cameron’s Trip – Wrecked

In: Rants

And that – was not the prettiest of sights early in the morning. Our car is not in the wreck but jon’s car was the car just before the wira, managing to swerve before he skidded bursting a tire. Crazy guy was driving on the opposite side on the road at 80kmph, refusing to cut [...]