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The duty and tax I had to pay turned out quite paltry (the tortourous part was waiting one and a half hours for them to calculate it and endure lectures on why students shouldnt touch alcohol). But on the other hand, the libertarian part of me cries out injustice. Alcohol duties in Singapore...
Marina Mahathir blogs about a 250-vehicle convoy from London to Gaza being stuck in Aqaba, Jordan, awaiting Egyptian permission to transit through Egypt to Gaza several Malaysian vehicles are part of the journey, all overland. Which is odd and dumbfounding Shipping the goods to Israel or Egypt and...
Let us all remember the time of the year we all look forward to. Until it gets close, of course, then we just hope it all just ends fast. Heres to the holidays, may they make it a once-in-two-years event!
I was watching LOTR The Return of the King on 8TV earlier, and there is only one way to describe it: potong stim. They cut off the last 45 minutes they cut to Quickie (a 45 minute cringe-inducing show that used to be a nice 15 minute). Just that, at least according to Astro, []
The Malaysian Insider consulting editor Leslie Lau was rather dissappointed at Pakatans inaugural platform (I was too, but for quite different reasons). What PR needs to understand is that it needs to present a clearly define choice to voters as to what a vote for them will mean. Will there be higher...
From New Zealand: The interesting bit is that in the Malaysian Parliament, any such response will be greeted with jeers of tarik balik (take it back). And my old time favourite: William Hague was arguing against the Lisbon Treaty in a way that could have caused him his parliamentary privileges...
School assessments, usually through examinations in Malaysia (and most of the world) serve two purpose: external signalling tool and quality assurance. In Malaysia, both are combined into three, terminal examinations (four if you count STPM). The United States, through the No Child Left Behind Act, does...
Mohammad Ariff of the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research writes: In the absence of the massive influx of foreign workers, wages would have risen and employers would have resorted to labour-saving technology to boost productivity (to rein in labour costs). Malaysia would then have automated and moved...
I was just reading Zaid Ibrahims platform, presented at Pakatan Rakyats inaugural convention. Its rather vague, if disappointing a lot of goals are crouched in (deliberate, I think) ambiguous words Defend the role and responsibility of the institution of...
This is odd. Preview for international travellers? Uhm, I dont need to go to India for Häagen-Dazs. Perhaps the preview should be for those who are less likely afforded the chance of trying out the New Jersey ice cream: Indians.