Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is my very first Android / Samsung phone and I absolutely did not regret jumping ship from using Apple. However ever since the announcement of Samsung Galaxy S4, I’ve been anticipating it for quite awhile now and hoping that it’ll be a decent phone alongside my Samsung Galaxy Note 2. So last weekend, it was Malaysia’s launch of the long awaited Samsung Galaxy S4. It was no ordinary single launch event, but they had tour bus going around places to have their launch ceremony event with different telco providers.

They started off the morning by stopping at Sunway Pyramid. There was a whole entourage of circus clowns, dance performers, cheerleaders, etc during the launch, it’s as if there was a Samsung Fun Fair Festival kinda thing going around.

Next on, the whole troupes adjourned to The Gardens, Times Square, as well as Low Yat Plaza as the final destination.

Love the colorful Samsung official phone covers too! Which is your favourite color?

Samsung will make available the Galaxy S4 via all leading operators in the country namely Celcom, Digi, Maxis and U Mobile, as well as Samsung Mobile Brand Shops. The retail price for the Samsung Galaxy S4 will be RM2,199 in stores.

Personally, I can’t wait to get my hands on the Samsung Galaxy S4 to try out all the new features that my current phone doesn’t have.

S Health seems pretty interesting as I kinda need to bulk up and keep track of my calories intake daily as well as exercising.

Eraser shot on S4 camera is also one of the things that’s missing from my current Note2. I’m sure it comes pretty handy when I can just photoshop off an unwanted person/object in the background straight from the phone and post it on Instagram!

Dual camera capture is also one of the feature that’s quite convenient for ‘behind the scenes’ people like me. I’m always behind the camera, thus I can now be IN the shot with Samsung’s new dual camera recording feature!

Apart from that, Smart Scroll / Smart Pause also comes in handy when reading my favourite blogs/e-books as well as watching Youtube video.

Will Samsung Malaysia provide me a unit to try? Maybe, hopefully soon?

Korean pop group 4Minute in latest issue of 1st Look [Kr] Magazine. The girls have released a new mini-album, Name is 4Minute, on April 26.

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My friend Lee Hom was invited to give a talk at Oxford University on April 22nd which was recently. He introduced the students in attendance to Chinese pop music followed by the playing of a mix-tape which he prepared. It contained 10 different songs by various Chinese pop singers, including… Jay Chou.

I was pleasantly surprised!

I wonder if Lee Hom is aware, but back in my secondary school days, there used to be this Jay Chou vs. Lee Hom argument between fans. It wasn’t anything malicious, but we fans took our stand to heart as if saying my father is better than your father. It was personal.

But seeing that Lee Hom presented one of Jay’s songs at Oxford, perhaps that childish ego-centrism was only prevalent among teenage fans like us. Hahaha. Those were the days.

No transcript from the talk was released but a photograph of Lee Hom leading the audience on a 1 minute silent tribute for victims of the Sichuan Earthquake. I stole the photo from his Facebook and put it here because he looked smart.

Seeing this photo reminds me of my days studying for a full cert music diploma in college when I was eighteen. I was hoping against all hopes that my residual hearing will remain and studied music for as long as I could. Lee Hom’s talk reminds me of one class in specific – Music Appreciation. We listened to, and critically analysed music by various composers from pre-baroque era to the 21st century. (I suppose that’s partly where I learned to understand Lee Hom’s compositions critically).

We also studied the lives of the great composers such as Bach, Handel and Beethoven. Understanding their lives from our textbook made a difference in the way we appreciate their music, Because, most of the time, composers, and writers even, produce great music in the face of adversity. Their tough life experiences enrich their works.

Have you noticed that Beethoven’s compositions after he lost his hearing contain strong, frustrated emotions?

I sincerely believe that if Lee Hom is able to share his life story – either his career pathway alone or with his personal life story embedded – it will be a great inspiration to thousands, especially the youths who aspire to be musicians like him. I am under no illusion that Lee Hom had it easy, even today. Whatever personal and social challenges that he might have faced are the things that brought him to where he is now. It will be a great source of comfort and inspiration to those who are facing challenges in their music studies and aspiration – and I know what they are too well.

It will also indirectly generate interest for Chinese pop music, just as how students have been inspired to study Psychology from attending my talks. 

When Lee Hom first wrote about me, I learned from the comments received that his fan base includes those living in non-Asian, non-Chinese speaking regions of this earth. There are people who don’t understand a single Chinese word who listen to his songs. But the number of fans in this group is probably very small in comparison to that of those who can understand Chinese.

Can you imagine how this non-Chinese speaking group might grow if the world gets to know Lee Hom’s life story? For me, I find it intriguing that an American born and bred child of Chinese descendent would take an interest in his Chinese roots and culture so much so that he made it his career goal – to popularize traditional Chinese music in the world. We all know that second and third generation Chinese descendants born in America often feel out of place, they sometimes reject their Chinese cultural identity in order to fit in, often to the point of self-denial and bitterness.

That could be a story lead. What makes Lee Hom different? What makes Lee Hom embrace his Asian roots and want to turn it into a musical celebration?

It will be truly inspirational of Lee Hom when he can sincerely share his heart – both the good and the bad life experiences. Because, self-disclosure endears.

So.. few months back I went dinner with Bernie and Rita at Cafe La Boca at Pavilion.

It was a nice place. Dining there reminds me of some restaurants I been to in Europe.

Hello Bernie

They ran out of Hoegaarden or something. Forgot

Awesome pizza

Hello Rita

OK so after dinner, we went up to Tokyo Street to meet up with Wind.

Hello Wind and Moon!

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I am still here at the NIH Clinical Center and not back in Malaysia yet, because I have been down with Pneumonia.

It all started when I complained of a new difficulty in swallowing food after surgery. My tongue was swollen while my body temperature was elevated, so I was taken to see Beth – the speech therapist – who observed me swallow food through an X-Ray machine. She put me on a pureed food diet and gave me a special cup that emits 5cc sips. She looked concerned.

Next, was a chest X-RAY which showed something in my lungs. It looked like I was having a serious lung infection, so people from Infectious Diseases came to see me in the ward after that.

The following day, I had a CT scan of the chest done which revealed the cause of my Pneumonia – food aspiration. Food had accidentally entered the wrong pipe and into my lungs, causing Pneumonia.

We started treatment for Pneumonia very earlier on – when I complained of eating difficulty, my body temperature was elevated and nurses heard something unusual in my lungs through the stethoscope. We started treatment the moment a possible Pneumonia was suspected. I have been receiving continuous antibiotics plus normal saline infusion intravenuously, while my body breaks down the inhaled food by itself. At the time of writing this, nurses say that my lungs sound clear, but taking deep breaths still hurt me.

More tests and consultations are in store. We are collecting sputum samples and I will be seeing the lung doctor soon.

The past week had been arduous on my physical body. Who would know that recovery from Pneumonia could be so tough? I slept more than half the time, my whole body would ache, I needed pain killers and anti-nausea medications. My temperature soared now and then.

By the way, inhaling food due not necessarily cause Pneumonia, and there are other causes of Pneumonia.

My flights that were supposed to depart last Saturday were cancelled because I was and still not well enough to travel, and I want to find out the cause of the Pneumonia. We know that, this time, it was because I inhaled food. But I also have a chronic breathing difficulty.

Someone from Infectious Diseases thinks that the case of food entering my lungs might be due to a pre-existing problem which was made worse by the surgery breathing tube, but he wasn’t sure. This is why I need to see the Lung doctor.

UPDATE

SUN 28 April: i have just been placed under contact isolation. Anyone who comes into my room must wear a yellow coat and gloves. Too bad I can’t hear or they may just shout what they want to say from the door.

SUN 28 April, evening: Contact Isolation lifted. No infection was found in my blood, urine, stool, and sputum samples.

MON 29 Aprik: Did some breathing tests today. The pulmonologist evaluated the results, as well as the CT scan, Chest X-Ray, my condition and medical history. In a nutshell, she is in the opinion that I have been experiencing food aspiration for a long time over the last few years. It caused me to have breathing difficulty which worsened gradually, weakening my lungs.

Since my swallowing nerve was impaired by a brain tumor many years ago – my left vocal cord paralyzed and left palate immobilized – she will speak to my neurosurgeon and send me to the ENT to see if we can fix the structures in my throat to prevent future food aspiration from happening.

My lungs are still on the recovery from pneumonia. I am feeling lethargic and tired from the pneumonia, and nauseous from the antibiotics infusion. The lower portion of my lungs are still inflammed.

I will be doing more tests in the next few days.

POPCRAP 1

Few days ago I was hanging out with some of my Minion friends

POPCRAP 2

On Thursday, I was at the launch of HTC One. More info here

POPCRAP 3

On Friday, we bid farewell to Catherine

My family hardly eats any rice, we only buy brown rice for the kids. But i know how the drill is about buying rice, whether brown or white. We go to Tesco, or whichever hypermarket having a sale, but most of the time it was Tesco. We’d go to the rice aisle, pick the brand on sale from the choice of the few we usually buy from. If it was white rice, it was most of the time Dragon Pearl. Nowadays with brown rice, it is usually ecoBrown.

Since our rate of consumption is slow, we go for the 5kg. Back in those days my kids were small and we didn’t have a bathroom scale, i’d estimate my children’s weight in comparison to the bag of 5kg rice (a few years ago, i redeemed a bathroom scale from Bonuslink).

But one day, stuck in the traffic jam, it occured to me that wasn’t how we bought rice when we were small.

Back then, my mom bought rice from the sundry shop near my house. Sundry shops sold, um, all and sundry in those days – stationery, snacks, toys, books, and even some hardware. Outside the shop, in a large gunny sack sitting on the floor was a mound of rice. It was usually next to other gunny sacks containing dried chillies, onions and other grains we never bought.

If you wanted to buy rice, the shopkeeper, usually an old thin guy wearing grey or khaki belted shorts and a white singlet (sometimes rolled up to his torso, depending on how old he was), would open up a paper bag. This paper bag was usually made out of brown paper or newspaper, glued at the bottom with starch made from rice. It’s a miracle how starch can hold such a heavy load.

The shopkeeper would ask u how much u wanted, you’d say the price, or the weight, like 2 katis. What a kati? Dunno, but its 16 tahils. If you were Cantonese you’d say ‘kun’, rhymes with ‘bun’. Then shopkeeper would used a metal scoop and dished the rice from the sack to the paper bag. There was no grade to the rice, no Super AA or Jasmine white rice or any of that. We only knew it came from Thailand.

Then you would pay the shopkeeper and he’d seal the bag of rice. Then you would carefully carry the bag of rice home, to eat for the next few weeks.

Writing this evokes a lot of memories about rice and its link to Chinese society the world over. Rice symbolises livelihood, rezeki. I remember old Hong Kong period dramas that show a poor boy tripping and spilling a bag of rice on the ground meant the greatest tragedy.

Microsoft Surface RT has officially launched in Malaysia on 25 April 2013. Read on to find out the Surface RT price and where to buy it, as well as Surface Pro release date.

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Google Drive online cloud storage support automatic syncing and offline access for all your Google Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets, and Drawings. In this article, you will learn how to setup and use Google Drive in offline mode.

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Check out our interview with Spotify!

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THOR 2 trailer!

Is your company computer still using Windows XP? Please inform your boss that Microsoft will end the support for the 11-year old operating system on 8 April 2014. It means you will no longer receive security updates, fixes or technical support for computer that still running Windows XP.

Read the full article at Windows XP End-of-Support: What Does It Mean to Your Business? by LiewCF Tech Blog. Follow @liewcf on Twitter. Like LiewCF FB Page on Facebook.

WinPDFEditor is a Windows PDF edit and convert software allows you to add content on PDF file and convert PDF into other file formats. For a limited time, you can now download WinPDFEditor for free (worth USD$29.95).

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PART 1: Hello Lone Pine Penang!
PART 2: Room Lobby Trishaw At Lone Pine Penang
PART 3: The Pool At Lone Pine
PART 4: The Jump At The Beach

On the next morning, we went down quite early to have breakfast. It was at the cafe by the beach.

Yumz!

Posing a bit with morning face. lol

Before leaving Lone Pine, we went to the bach to chill a bit.

I dropped by Gurney Plaza to mee up with 2 Penang buddies, Han and Ernest.

Soluto, an online PC management service, released a report which awarded Apple MacBook Pro 13" as the "Best Performing Windows Laptop" based on a combination of crashes, hangs, BSoDs, boot time and background processes.

Read the full article at The Best Windows Laptop is… Apple MacBook Pro! by LiewCF Tech Blog. Follow @liewcf on Twitter. Like LiewCF FB Page on Facebook.

In this guest post, Ken Myers shares 5 websites where you can download professional stock photos for FREE!

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Spotted in WMPoweruser

On a recent enquiry by Jose the company said:
Thank you for contacting UpToDate. The app is currently available for tablets, laptops and desktops but not for mobiles. An app is in development for Windows 8 phones, however we do not have a release date at this time.

I use UpToDate a lot on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 and it’s a great reference at the point of care whenever you urgently need to look up information. You can be sure it’s always up-to-date!
Are you an UpToDate user? Let us know.

from the Palmdoc Chronicles

UpToDate is coming to Windows phone

How things have advanced in the translation world. Are you an avid user of Google Translate on your mobile? I am, and I find it especially useful in the clinic where I see patients who speak in languages other than those I am comfortable in. While the audio recognition of various languages still has considerable room for improvement, I marvel at the text translate features whereby you snap a picture and you can highlight text in the image and the app will recognise the text and translate it for you (currently only in the Android version, not iOS). Patients sometimes hand me a lab report in a language I can’t read and this is where this will come in very handy.

I wait for the day when translation is in realtime. This cool translation demo of a real time translation using Microsoft technology (via the Verge) brings us a step closer to the fabled Star Trek Universal Translator!

Rick Rashid has a lot on his plate. As the chief research officer at Microsoft Research, the division he founded in 1991, Rashid is charged with overseeing some of Microsoft’s most daring and diverse projects. His vast network of researchers pioneered the motion-sensing technology behind the Kinect, and have since explored everything from augmented reality to wearable technologies. They’re even working on an interactive contact lens display that would be powered by a user’s body heat.
But the company’s most groundbreaking project may be one of its least flashy. Late last year, Rashid demonstrated a new technology that combines speech recognition with voice translation, converting a speaker’s words into a different language in real time. During the demonstration, held at an event in China, Microsoft’s software transcribed Rashid’s words into Mandarin script almost instantly, before voicing them a few seconds later — in his own voice.

from the Palmdoc Chronicles

Translation in the clinic

PART 1: Hello Lone Pine Penang!
PART 2: Room Lobby Trishaw At Lone Pine Penang
PART 3: The Pool At Lone Pine

After playing water at the pool, we went to the beach!

Amagad. My feet are drowning!

Did the smashpOp Jump!

Then it was time for dinner

I had fried chicken chop!

Night is coming.

Go PAS GO!

Ini adalah sambungan dari penulisan semalam. Kali ini berkenaan Barisan Nasional Manifesto 2008 yang berkisar sekitar keselamatan.

Manifesto BN 2008 ada 7 kategori.

1. ekonomi
2. keselamatan
3. urus tadbir kerajaan
4. pendidikan
5. pembangunan
6. perkhidmatan awam
7. agama

Keselamatan

1. Mengurangkan indeks jenayah negara

Pada tahun 2008, jumlah jenayah adalah 211,645. Ini bersamaan dengan 767 bagi setiap 100k penduduk. Tahun 2012 pula, 123,719 jenayah, 441 kes bagi setiap 100k. Ini adalah kemajuan sebanyak 42%. Namun begitu, pihak MyWatch, badan NGO bagi memantau kadar jenayah Malaysia mengatakan pihak PDRM telah mengubah data di sini, sini, video youtube.

Lebih menyedihkan lagi MyWatch telah mengatakan bahawa kerajaan tidak mengambil kira jenayah (jenayah bukan indeks) seperti culik, pemerasan, ugutan jenayah dan kecederaan ke dalam indeks jenayah. Kes-kes seperti ini adalah kes yang serius di mana, penculik boleh dikenakan hukuman gantung. Manakala kes seperti pemerasan, ugutan dan kecederaan berkait rapat dengan gangsterism, dera anak-isteri, ah long terus meningkat. Ini bermakna 2, pertama PDRM tidak lagi boleh mengawal gangster, kedua, PDRM adalah sekutu mereka.

Persepsi terhadap jenayah juga terus meningkat, kerana jenayah memang benar-benar terjadi. Selain itu, ramai mangsa tidak melaporkan kepada pihak PDRM kerana menyangka ini adalah “useless”. Kerosakan sudah berlaku, bukan boleh dapat balik barang yang hilang. Keluarga saya pernah menjadi mangsa kes pecah rumah dan kami mengambil keputusan untuk tidak melaporkan (kerana paperwork kena buat di balai).

Dengan statistik yang sudah di ubah oleh kerajaan, sedikit susah untuk buat perbandingan, tapi takpa, kita cuba juga. Jenayah Singapore dan Victioria, Australia.

Saya pilih Singapore dan Victoria Australia, kerana saya rasa sangat selamat ketika melancong di kawasan tersebut biarpun angka di atas sangat besar. Angka yang tinggi di Australia adalah kerana mereka melaporkan semua jenayah termasuk kecil dan besar, bagi mendapatkan pampasan insurans. Contoh jenayah kecil adalah hilang kucing, handphone, tayar dicuri, kes buli, jiran bergaduh, hilang basikal dsb.

Di Malaysia, setiap minggu mesti ada masalah, hilang selipar di masjid, hilang pen, duit dsb. Semalam saya hilang helmet motor. Seperti saya katakan confirm orang malas nak report. Nak kena pergi balai satu hal, nanti kena saman tak pakai helmet pula. Dah report bukan ada tindakan pun.

Keputusan NH: Janji DICAPATI kerana data diberikan kurang tepat.

2. Menangani isu pendatang asing tanpa izin

Dalam laporan tahunan PDRM 2008, dinyatakan di sini, seramai 2.4 juta pendatang asing di Malaysia. Di mana 180,000 adalah pendatang TANPA izin. Kerajaan juga telah mengambil langkah memperkenalkan 6P (Program Penyelesaian Menyeluruh Pekerja/Pendatang Asing Tanpa Izin) pada Jun 2012. Melalui program ini, 2.04 juta berdaftar, di mana 1,016, 906 adalah sah, selebih 1,303, 126 adalah pendatang haram.

Mengapakah isu pendatang asing tanpa izin ini penting? Ada 4 faktor utama.

2.a. Menggunakan PATI untuk undi

2.b. Mengambil pekerjaan am, buruh dan semua low level jobs.

Kita menggunakan tenaga asing kerana ianya sangat murah. Akibatnya, perkhidmatan yang diberikan tidak memuaskan. Tengok saja kedai mamak, kena cakap 2 kali baru paham. OldTown kopitiam pula kena order pakai kertas sebab pekerja tidak boleh berbahasa Melayu.

2.c. Menghantar duit pulang

Pada tahun 2009 jumlah wang salurkan keluar negara adalah USD 6.8 billion. Secara purata RM 2,833 dihantar pulang setiap tahun. Angka sebanyak ini jika di agih kepada 28.86 juta penduduk Malaysia, seorang akan dapat RM235.62. Angka sebegini juga cukup untuk memberikan pendidikan percuma kepada rakyat sehingga ke menara gading.

2.d. Kadar jenayah tinggi

Susah untuk dipisahkan jenayah dan warga asing. Baru-baru ini, serangan di Lahad Datu dikatakan berpunca daripada pendatang asing yang sudah berdaftar (atau diberi kewarganegaraan). Dalam satu petikan daripada Nazri, “setakat ini, jumlah 889,779 pendatang asing tanpa izin di Sabah tidak mengugat keselamatan”. Angkuh sungguh pak menteri kita.

Keputusan NH: Janji DICAPATI

3. Menambah 60,000 anggota polis menjelang 2011 dan membina 150 balai

Pada tahun 2008, 106,552 bilangan polis. Pada 2011, 122,000 sahaja. Ada 2 personalan, kenapa perlukan 60,000 lagi polis dan kenapa susah sangat nak rekrut polis baru?

Jika kita refer kepada Singapore police force, kita dapati Singapore lebih ramai polis bagi setiap 100,000 penduduk. Namun begitu, Singapore adalah negara kecil, lebih mudah untuk dipantau. Bak kata Mahathir, tak sempat tekan minyak sampai 120km, dah sampai hujung Singapore.

Keputusan NH: Janji DICAPATI.

4. Meningkatkan keselamatan di sekolah-sekolah, taman-taman permainan dan tempat-tempat awam

Susah untuk diukur. Nurin, Sharlinie, William antara nama yang akan terus dikenang. Saya kecewa kerana angka kes culik tidak dimasukkan sebagai salah satu ukuran bagi mengurangkan indeks jenayah.

Mari kita kenang mereka yang hilang.

Keputusan NH: Janji DICAPATI.

Rumusan

• 4 Janji DICAPATI

Keselamatan adalah perkara serius. Lebih serius lagi dari BlogSerius kerana tanpa keselamatan tiadalah ekonomi, hak asasi manusia, kebebasan beragama, kemajuan, pendidikan, kerajaan dan paling penting, kebahagian.

ps: NH demam skit hari ni. Lambat keluar post.

It’s been a busy month for me, with the run up to a national scientific meeting, talks to prepare and on top of that some website housekeeping to attend to. One of the major projects I’ve been doing is an overhaul of one of my other main blogs, the Malaysian Medical Resources, which required trimming of years of outdated blog posts and updating numerous links. One final touch is of course to make the site Mobile Friendly – and for that I relied on WPTouch Pro which also powers the mobile view of this site.
One of my upcoming talks is supposed to be on IT and how it benefits Haematologists – a grand opportunity for me to reflect on the fantastic amount of progress we’ve seen the past ten years. Devices are getting so much more powerful, broadband is getting faster and with the advent of 4G/LTE we are now seeing very fast wireless connections. At the same time it was also sad to reflect on the demise of webOS (now replaced by openwebOS which really hasn’t taken off yet) and I would think the user base is dwindling. I still get some feedback on some of my old webOS software like BeeNews but I am afraid I can’t support these anymore. I still have my Pre3 smartphone but it is now sitting in a drawer, serving as a backup phone. While a webOS phone is a great device, it simply does not have the key apps which a mobile doctor needs e.g. Epocrates, Uptodate Lexidrugs and not to mention the general utility apps which have become quite essential e.g. Whatsapp, Handbase etc.
At this point it’s sad but I think we can finally lay webOS to rest. It’s been a fantastic journey Palm/HP. Thanks for the ride.

from the Palmdoc Chronicles

Of blogs and gadgets

Traditionally in Malaysia, bonds have always been traded in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) market but with the launch of the Danainfra ETBS, it presents another investing option for you. However, most retail investors have little knowledge on the bond market and how it works.

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Memang jelas terserlah kemesraan antara pasangan yang sedang hangat bercinta ini. Abang Nara faham apa yang sedang dilalui oleh Nabila Huda dan Nas-T. Kedua-duanya tengah mabuk bercinta dan merasakan dunia ini mereka yang punya. Itu yang Nabila sering berkongsi gambar dirinya bersama Nas-T di Instagram untuk tatapan ramai.

Nampak bahagia kan? Abang Nara teringin pulak nak ajak wife buat posing begini satu hari nanti. Untuk makluman, Nabila Huda berada di Australia untuk penggambaran sebuah drama. Kalau tak silap, Nas-T turut sama untuk menemani kekasih hatinya itu. Memang seperti belangkas sungguh mereka berdua ini.

Semoga Nabila dan Nas-T akan “happily ever after” jua akhirnya. Semoga perhubungan ini akan berakhir dengan perkahwinan. Lagi 5 keping gambar aksi mesra Nabila dan Nas-T dengan membaca entri ini sepenuhnya.

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Abang Nara ada pernah terbaca sebelum ini satu artikel yang menyatakan Aaron Aziz sedang stress akibat tidak mempunyai permit untuk menjadi pengarah filem. Hari ini menerusi Instagramnya, Aaron Aziz mempersoalkan kenyataan artikel tersebut.

Aaron Aziz menjelaskan yang Kementerian Dalam Negeri (KDN) telah memberitahunya yang sebagai PR di Malaysia, dia boleh melakukan semua perkara kecuali mengundi. Di bawah ialah penjelasan penuh Aaron yang ditulis di Instagramnya.

Bila nak buat statement sila check dulu. Nak mengarah kena ada permit ke? Sedangkan KDN bagitau saya yg sebagai Penduduk Tetap (PR) di M’sia saya dapat benefit yg sama dan boleh kerja apa apa pun cuma tak boleh undi. Dan saya akan rujuk kenapa saya perlu bayar sebanyak RM1500 kalau saya boleh dianggap BUKAN perkerja asing.

Aaron Aziz turut sama memuatkan gambar resit rasmi pendaftarannya sebagai ahli FDAM.

Kadang-kadang kasihan juga melihat nasib Aaron Aziz ini. Tak habis-habis ditimpa kontroversi. Mungkin ramai yang cemburu dengannya. Bagi Abang Nara, tak perlulah cemburu tak bertempat. Rezeki masing-masing. Jadi tak perlu nak pertikaikan tanpa alasan yang munasabah. Tak gitu?

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Sudahkah anda melihat iklan Usain Bolt yang terbaru ini? Usain Bolt kelihatan berlari dengan kepantasan yang amat hebat sekali di sekitar Bandar Kuala Lumpur. Serius Abang Nara teruja melihat iklan ini.

Dan Abang Nara lagi teruja apabila mengetahui yang Usain Bolt adalah duta untuk Celcom 4G LTE yang dilancarkan baru-baru ini. Memang pasangan yang sangat sesuai. Kedua-duanya memang laju. Kalau anda tak tahu, Usain Bolt adalah pemenang pingat emas Olimpik untuk acara 100m, 200m dan 4x100m. Hebat kan?

Dan semestinya kelajuan Celcom 4G LTE adalah sama tahapnya dengan kelajuan Usain Bolt. Kini anda boleh melayari Internet dengan kelajuan 100Mbps di smartphone anda. Bayangkan anda download lagu 5MB dan ia hanya mengambil masa selama 2 saat. Tak ke laju gila tue?

Sempena dengan pelancaran Celcom 4G LTE, anda boleh mendapatkan promosi seperti di atas untuk harga RM199 sahaja. Syaratnya ialah kena jadi 1,100 pelanggan yang terawal di Blue Cube Sunway, Pavilion dan Menara Celcom. Inilah peluang anda untuk merasai sendiri kehebatan, kelajuan dan kepantasan talian Celcom 4G LTE. Maklumat lanjut boleh didapati di laman web Celcom ini.

Dan ada berita baik untuk anda semua. Anda boleh dapatkan modem Celcom 4G LTE beserta 3 bulan perkhidmatan percuma dengan 2 langkah. First LIKE Facebook Celcom First dan kemudian hantar pose anda yang menyerupai Usain Bolt. 100 peserta bertuah akan memenangi hadiah yang awesome ini. Tunggu apa lagi? Sertailah sekarang jugak.

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Fuh ~~ Tak habis-habis orang menyalahkan Nelydia Senrose sebagai punca perpisahan Qi Razali dan Yunalis Zarai. Nasib baiklah tuan punya badan, Qi telah tampil untuk menjelaskan keadaan. Kalau tidak, mesti Nelydia dicop perampas oleh segelintir manusia di luar sana.

Berkata kepada Kosmo, Qi Razali menjelaskan punca perpisahannya dengan Yuna:-

Saya ingin jelaskan bahawa punca utama perpisahan saya dan Yuna adalah disebabkan jarak kami yang berjauhan. Ia tidak berkaitan langsung dengan Nelydia. Dia (Nelydia) bukan orang ketiga yang menyebabkan hubungan saya dan Yuna dahulu putus. Lagipun hubungan kami (Yuna) sudah tinggal sejarah dan rasanya tidak perlu lagi mengaitkan diri saya dan Yuna kerana masing-masing sudah mencari haluan hidup sendiri

Walaupun sudah rapat dan dalam proses mengenali hati budi masing-masing, Qi mengakui yang dia tidak pernah meluahkan rasa cinta terhadap Nelydia. Fuh ~~ Agak bahaya di situ sebenarnya. Lebih baik cepat-cepat luahkan takut ada orang lain berkenan kat Nelydia. Kang melepas kang. Kata Qi:-

Sebelum ini kami tidak pernah membuat kenyataan tentang status hubungan kami. Ya, kami memang berkawan dan saya akui hubungan dengan Nelydia sekarang bertambah rapat. Saya boleh melabelkan hubungan kami kini berada dalam peringkat proses mengenali hati budi masing-masing. Saya tak pernah luahkan perasaan cinta kepadanya sehingga sekarang

Mereka berdua sudah pun bertemu keluarga masing-masing. Untuk makluman, tahun ini umur Qi sudah pun mencecah usia 35 tahun manakala Nelydia baru 19 tahun. Umur Qi memang sesuai sangat untuk berkahwin tetapi Nelydia rasanya masih terlalu muda untuk itu. Mungkin Qi harus sabar menanti 2,3 tahun lagi. Tak gitu?

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Press Statement / Press Highlight by SG DAP Malaysia Lim Guan Eng in Press Conference at DAP Sabah HQ KK on 22 Apr 2013:

Restoring Sabah’s Dignity

Corruption is the biggest problem in Sabah. We will run a clean government that has open public declaration of assets and open competitive tenders.

10 key points in bringing a brighter future for Sabah
1) RM 1Billion Sabah Native Trust Fund to uplift economic development of Sabah bumiputras
2) Poverty eradication in 5 years at the end of 1st term
3) FREE WIFI in all public places
4) Abolish cabotage policy to ensure uniform and fair price throughout Malaysia
5) Increase oil revenue dividend from 5% to 20%
6) People’s land policy that respects NCR land and to ensure land can be given to Sabahans individually and sold to corporations by open competitive tender
7) Forming a voluntary community patrol units (VPU) or Pasukan Peronda Sukarela (PPS) , install street lights & CCTV, increase police personnel by 100% to fight crime.
Set up local Sabah TV and radio station controlled by Sabahans and build the Pan Borneo Highway from Kudat to Kuching.
9) Set up a non-Muslim Religious Affairs Ministerial portfolio to look after financial needs and issues of Non-Muslims and yearly allocations to Chinese, missionary schools and religious schools
10) Ensure power of commercial licensing of taxis and commercial vehicles are returned to Sabah and public transport like monorail, be decided by the Sabah state government

Lim Guan Eng

—-Mandarin Version —

民主行动党秘书长林冠英于2013年4月22日在沙巴州行动党亚庇总部发表声明，重点如下：
还沙巴尊严
贪污是沙巴最大的问题。我们将推行公布民选高官财产及公开招标，打造一个廉洁政府。
带领沙巴迈向更光明的未来：
1) 成立10亿令吉沙巴土著信托基金，提升沙巴土著的经济发展
2) 在执政后五年内扫除贫穷
3) 在所有公共场所提供免费WIFI
4) 废除海运政策确保全马物价公平统一
5) 增加石油税收利 息5%-20%
6) 人民土地政策尊重传统习俗，确保土地可以由个人拥有，在公开竞争招标的情况下出售给大公司
7) 成立自愿社区巡逻队，按装街灯及闭路电视，增加警员100%，打击罪案
成立沙巴本身的电视台及沙巴人拥有的电台，兴建从古达－古晋的高速公路。
9) 成立非穆斯林事务部长职务，负责照顾非穆斯林的拨款及问题，同时，每年制度化拨款给华小、教会学校及宗教学校。
10) 确保将发出德士、商业用车、公共交通商业执照的主权归还给沙巴州政府。

林冠英

Rasa seronok pula melihat gambar Zizie Ezette yang turut sama turun padang membantu suaminya, Bung Mokhtar berkempen untuk PRU13. Memang jelas kemeriahannya. Abang Nara pun kalau ada kesempatan nak juga merasai sendiri kehangatan kempen pilihanraya kali ini.

Menarik juga apabila Zizie Ezette berkongsi pengalamannya menerusi Mstar Online:-

Saya mengaku, selepas penamaan calon pada Sabtu lalu, saya hanya tidur dalam masa empat atau lima jam sahaja kerana saya perlu membantu suami untuk berkempen. Percaya atau tidak semasa hari penamaan calon, ketika suami berada di dalam dewan, orang ramai tidak melepaskan peluang untuk mendekati saya yang berada di luar. Saya mengambil kesempatan itu untuk meminta mereka agar terus memberi sokongan kepada suami dan kerajaan Barisan Nasional dalam pilihan raya ini. Mudahlah bila isteri dan suami sama-sama popular

Bukan senang mahu turun padang ke pedalaman untuk bertemu penduduk-penduduk Kinabatangan. Memang pemimpin berjiwa rakyat sungguh Zizie Ezette dan suaminya. Semoga keputusan undian nanti akan memihak kepada pihak yang benar-benar layak. 4 lagi gambar Zizie Ezette dengan membaca entri ini sepenuhnya.

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PART 1: Hello Lone Pine Penang!
PART 2: Room Lobby Trishaw At Lone Pine Penang

So after settling down, we went for a dip at the pool!

This was how it looked like. So awesome

See the tent? A couple was about to have their wedding dinner that night. Apparently, many couples come here for wedding photoshoot and dinners.

Iz me!

Iz me and mamapOp!

After playing water, we walked out to check out the shops around the hotel.

Teka-teki sama ada Memey Suhaiza kini telah tampil dengan imej bertudung akhirnya terjawab juga. Berkata kepada Mstar Online, Memey memberitahu yang dia masih lagi dalam proses memakai tudung dan berharap perubahan itu akan terjadi secara semula jadi.

Kata Memey:-

Saya baru mula memakai tudung pada Ahad lalu tetapi belum sepenuhnya dan biarlah ia terjadi secara perlahan-lahan. Saya harap peminat mendoakan perkara yang baik untuk saya. Saya sudah bersiap-siap untuk keluar dan memakai topi tapi tiba-tiba tergerak hati untuk memakai tudung pada hari berkenaan. Suami suka namun dia memberi ruang kepada saya untuk buat keputusan sendiri kerana perkara ini bukan boleh dipaksa-paksa sebaliknya biarlah ia datang daripada kesedaran diri sendiri. Insya-Allah doakan yang terbaik buat diri saya supaya terus memakai tudung selepas ini

At least Memey ada usaha untuk berubah. Perlahan-lahan kayuh. Apa pun Abang Nara lihat Memey memang lebih cantik dan manis apabila bertudung. Pasti Norman akan lebih sayang apabila Memey bertudung sepenuhnya satu hari nanti. Sama-samalah kita doakan yang terbaik buat Memey.

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Finally, I had the arm surgery done last Friday here at the U.S. National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. In surgery, Dr. Asthagiri found there were four tumors in total as compared to two. These four tumors grew in a straight line along the Radial nerve. They were located beneath a muscle – that’s why it was hard to see how many tumors there were exactly via MRI.

Dr. Asthagiri removed three of the tumors including the largest one that we could easily see in the photograph of my previous post. He left the last, tiny one behind because it involves a nerve vital to my arm function. He didn’t want to take the risk since it’s still tiny.

My arm, wrist and fingers are all in good working condition after surgery. My arm’s still bandaged, as you can see in the above photograph.

My tongue’s temporary swollen due to the oxygen tube placed into my mouth during surgery, so eating’s a challenge for the time being. Lucky me, the In-patient Food Service has an extensive menu to select my food from.

I have also been put on IV drips since last Friday or Saturday. When my nurse took my vitals, she found that my liver’s blood volume was too low and this drip is supposed to help rectify that. It seems to be working.

This surgery proved to be more major than I had previously anticipated. I was still weak by Sunday, so I had to change my return flight. It was supposed to be on Sunday, 21st April. I changed it on Saturday, 27th April. With the extended stay, we can allow my arm and tongue to recover more and normalize my liver’s blood volume more, before sending me home.

The bad news is that I have to give the Hear Us Out 10 conference a miss. I was supposed to give a talk at the Global Issues Conference this Saturday. The theme’s going to be “Pushing The Limits” which I thought would be a good opportunity to talk about my expansion from Heart4Hope – a personal fundraising campaign, to A Celebration of Life – a public, charitable foundation. I was really looking forward to the conference.

Oh well, I suppose we have to give and take sometimes.

If you would like to send me cards or letters at the hospital, you may mail them to:

I will be leaving this place on 27th April 2013.

Finally, Celcom 4G LTE service launch on 23 April 2013 with data only plan but it has wider network coverage area than its competitor - Maxis 4G LTE.

Read the full article at Celcom 4G LTE Data Plan Launched with Usain Bolt as Icon by LiewCF Tech Blog. Follow @liewcf on Twitter. Like LiewCF FB Page on Facebook.

Cepat sungguh masa berlalu. Sedar tak sedar, Natasha Hudson telah pun melahirkan seorang lagi bayi perempuan hasil perkahwinannya dengan Carleed Khaza. Untuk anda yang tidak tahu, Natasha telah pun berkahwin dengan Carleed sekitar bulan April tahun lepas.

Berita gembira ini telah pun dikongsikan oleh Natasha Hudson sendiri di Instagramnya. Proses kelahiran telah berlaku secara normal tanpa sebarang suntikan. Natasha Hudson juga telah mempunyai seorang anak perempuan hasil perkahwinannya sebelum ini.

Kepada Natasha dan Carleed, tahniah atas kelahiran si comel ini. Semoga bayi anda sihat dan membesar dengan penuh sejahtera. Selamat menjadi ayah buat Carleed. Tahniah sekali lagi.

P.S: Nak Lihat Testimoni Pengguna SkinRich Orang Melayu? KLIK GAMBAR INI

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Wow. Abang Nara suka dengan imej bertudung yang ditunjukkan oleh Memey Suhaiza ini. Memang kena dengan dirinya. Cantik sangat-sangat. Adakah imej ini akan berkekalan? Buat masa ini, masih tiada kenyataan rasmi daripada Memey mengenai hal ini.

Namun yang pasti, Norman Hakim pastinya sangat gembira dengan imej isteri ini. Tambah menggembirakan sudah tentu anak-anak mereka yang mendapat kasih sayang daripada 2 orang ibu. Memang Abang Nara tabik spring kepada Abby dan Memey yang tidak mengingati sejarah lama untuk kebahagiaan anak-anak mereka.

Semoga kebahagiaan mereka sekeluarga akan berkekalan sehingga ke akhir hayat. Semoga ia turut akan menjadi contoh buat masyarakat di luar sana. Kalau Abby dan Memey boleh lakukan, mengapa tidak anda? 2 lagi gambar terbaru Memey Suhaiza dengan membaca entri ini sepenuhnya.

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The hype 4 The Next Galaxy has been spreading across town, nation and even the world. You know it, everyone’s anticipating it; touted The Next Big Thing, I believe the upcoming Samsung flagship phone – Samsung Galaxy S4 will penetrate the market with multiple folds worldwide.

The local newspapers started giving some ‘pre-teaser’ of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S4 already. And last weekend I managed to bump into a few troupes of talented musician choir playing in front of malls, attracting various public into pre-teasing them The Next Galaxy.

They were going around town last Friday and Saturday showcasing their spectacular choir performances and it caught many attention from the public passerby.

Enough of the pre-teaser, I personally can’t wait to get my hands on the Samsung Galaxy S4.

The Next Big Thing will be launched this week and as a existing Samsung mobile user, I’m looking forward to see how it compares to my Samsung Galaxy Note II. Probably… I might just do another video review on Samsung Galaxy S4? Wait, if you’ve not checked out my previous Samsung Galaxy S3 video, watch it here:

Will bring in more updates to you soon! Stay tuned

AROUND THE WORLD IN 365 DAYS

Do you really know what’s going on in the world? Are you prepared to embrace globalization? Adam Shepard hopes his story will inspire young people to get out and arm themselves with a broader perspective.

By the time he was 30, the North Carolina man had already completed goals most people wait a lifetime to pursue.
From late 2011 to late 2012, spending just US$19,420.68, less than it would have cost him to stay at home, Shepard visited seventeen countries on four continents and lived some amazing adventures.

“It’s interesting to me,” he says, “that in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Europe, it’s normal for people to pack a bag, buy a plane ticket, and get ‘Out There.’ In the U.S., though, we live with this very stiff paradigm—graduate college, work, find a spouse, make babies, work some more, retire—which can be a great existence, but we leave little room to load up a backpack and dip into various cultures, to see places, to really develop our own identity.”

His journey began in “the other Antigua”—Antigua, Guatemala—where Shepard spent a month brushing up on his Spanish and traveling on the “chicken bus.” During his two months in Honduras, he served with an organization that helps improve the lives of poor children; in Nicaragua, he dug wells to install pumps for clean water and then stepped into the ring to face a savage bull; in Thailand, he rode an elephant and cut his hair into a mullet; in Australia, he hugged a koala, contemplated the present-day treatment of the Aborigines, and mustered cattle; in Poland, he visited Auschwitz; in Slovakia, he bungee jumped off a bridge; and in the Philippines, he went wakeboarding among Boracay’s craggy inlets and then made love to Ivana on the second most beautiful beach in the world.

His yearlong journey, which took two years to save for, was a spirited blend of leisure, volunteerism, and enrichment. He read 71 books, including ten classics and one—slowly—in Spanish. “If you can lend a hand to someone, educate yourself about the world, and sandwich that around extraordinary moments that get your blood pumping, that’s a pretty full year,” Shepard writes.

One Year Lived is the compelling and transparent account of his experiences abroad.

The trip comes just three years after he made US national headlines for taking a year to test the viability of the American Dream. With just $25 in his pocket, he boarded a train and headed to Charleston, SC. He lived in a homeless shelter for 70 days and took odd jobs until finding a full-time job as a mover, eventually earning enough money to buy a pickup truck and a furnished apartment. After the resulting book, Scratch Beginnings, was released by HarperCollins in 2008, Shepard appeared on the Today Show, CNN, FOX News, 20/20, and NPR. He was also interviewed by Atlantic Monthly, the New York Post, Christian Science Monitor, and over 140 radio programs.

Can everybody take a year to get missing?

“Maybe, maybe not,” he says, “though that’s not really the point. I’m just concerned that some of us want life to be cushy and regimented, but that’s not how we can create a lasting impact on our lives or the lives around us. There’s only so much you can learn in the classroom. Sometimes you have to get out there to experience it, to touch it, to feel it, to see it for yourself. And I’m saying that if we are smart with how we save our money and smart about how we spend it, we can live some pretty amazing experiences.”

One Year Lived will be available on April 22nd in paperback, as an audio book, and in a variety of eBook formats. To request an interview with Adam Shepard on or after publication, contact Rachel M. Anderson with RMA Publicity at 952-240-2513 or rachel@rmapublicity.com.

Adam is so kind to actually giveaway the PDF copy of “One Year Lived”. You can download it here, FOC!
By the way, I’ll be hosting a webinar session featuring Adam Shepard to share with his experience of travelling the world for less that the cost of staying home. Register for your free spot here!

One Year Lived – How to Travel Around The World For Less Than the Cost of Staying Home is a post from: KCLau.com

Semenjak dua menjak ini, wall Facebook Abang Nara dipenuhi dengan video Gwiyomi. Gwiyomi ini berasal dari Korea namun kini dah jadi fenomena satu dunia. Dalam banyak-banyak video Gwiyomi, yang paling menarik bagi Abang Nara ialah versi gadis bertudung di bawah ini.

Comel kan? Abang Nara tertanya-tanya jugak kenapa tiba-tiba banyak pulak orang Malaysia buat video Gwiyomi ini. Rupa-rupanya mereka ini nak masuk DiGi Buddyz Gwiyomi Contest yang dianjurkan oleh DiGi Easy Prepaid.

Fuh ~~ Hadiahnya memang terbaik. Boleh menang tiket ke Asia Super Showcase yang akan dihangatkan lagi dengan kehadiran Girls’ Generation, AOA dan Shinhwa. Lagi terbaik kalau menang Ultimate Prize sebab boleh ada Exclusive Backstage Tour. Bolehlah tengok apa yang ada di belakang pentas. Yang lagi best, Buddyz Passes membolehkan pemenangnya terus ke Super Zone tanpa perlu beratur dengan puluhan ribu pemegang tiket yang lain.

Teruja kan? Abang Nara pun teruja sangat-sangat. Abang Nara memang minat sangat-sangat kat Girls Generation. Dapat tengok kelincahan mereka beraksi memang boleh pengsan dibuatnya. Untuk mendapatkan peluang ini, Abang Nara telah pun menyertai DiGi Buddyz Gwiyomi Contest dengan meng”upload” video Gwiyomi Abang Nara di Facebook DiGi Youths.

Comel tak? Maafkan Abang Nara kalau anda terpikat dengan kecomelan diri ini. Abang Nara memang comel sejak azali. Namun begitu, keyakinan Abang Nara untuk memenangi Ultimate Prize DiGi Buddyz Gwiyomi Contest kini berkurangan selepas melihat video sebab video Gwiyomi peserta lain. Boleh tahan hebat jugak!!!

Hanya tinggal lebih kurang 13 hari sahaja lagi sebelum penyertaan untuk Buddyz Gwiyomi Contest ini ditutup. Kalau anda peminat setia Girls Generation dan mahu bertemu mereka di Asia Super Showcase, inilah peluang anda. Rakam video Gwiyomi anda secomel yang boleh. Pastikan anda adalah pengguna DiGi Easy Prepaid dan menepati syarat-syarat di bawah ini terlebih dahulu.

Dengan DiGi Easy Prepaid, Buddyz Takkan Terpisah dengan 24 jam setiap hari Panggilan, SMS, Facebook dan Twitter PERCUMA. Lawati Facebook DiGi Youths untuk maklumat lanjut mengenai Buddyz Gwiyomi Contest. Selamat mencuba dan selamat ber”Gwiyomi” ~~~

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Kita semua tahu tentang AKUJANJI Manifesto oleh BN. Mana tak nya, semua media dia pukal iklan. Tetapi, adakah BN benar-benar tunaikan janji? Jika kita rujuk kepada manifesto BN pada tahun 2008, saya dapati banyak manifesto tidak mempunyai ukuran yang mudah dibuat.

Manifesto BN 2008 ada 7 kategori.

1. ekonomi
2. keselamatan
3. urus tadbir kerajaan
4. pendidikan
5. pembangunan
6. perkhidmatan awam
7. agama

Oleh itu saya akan pecahkan kepada 7 bahagian supaya lebih mudah untuk dibaca, difahamkan dan ditulis.

Ekonomi

1. Menangani kesan kenaikan harga bagi menjamin kualiti hidup rakyat yang bermutu.

Mungkinkah melalui BR1M? Tetapi barang masih lagi naik. Harga ayam pada tahun 2008, RM 5.30 per kg. Tahun 2013, RM 7.40 per kg. Kenaikan sebanyak 40% dalam masa 5 tahun. Secara purata 8% kenaikan setiap tahun. Dan tahukah anda, harga ayam bukan lagi barangan harga kawalan sejak 2008? Tak apa, saya bukan suka makan ayam pon.

Cuba kita lihat sekeliling kita, harga barang naik terlalu tinggi saban hari. Beras 2008, RM 16.50 bagi 10kg. Pada 2013, RM 36 bagi setiap 10kg. Roti Gardenia pon naik, dulu RM 1.90 sekarang RM 2.40.

Keputusan NH: Janji DICAPATI kerana harga barang terus meningkat dan golongan pertengahan terus tertindas.

2. Memupuk dan membantu 1 juta syarikat dan usahawan IKS dalam masa 5 tahun.

Susah untuk dikira kerana janji yang dibuat agak “motherhood” atau umum. Buat masa ini, terdapat lebih 1 juta syarikat dan hampir 5 juta perniagaan berdaftar bersama SSM. IKS adalah pendek untuk Industri Kecil dan Sederhana. Mungkin sumber data boleh diperolehi dari SMIDEC.

Keputusan NH: Tiada komen.

3. Menjana lebih 2 juta peluang pekerjaan yang bermutu dalam masa 5 tahun.

Pada tahun 2013, ada 12.85 juta rakyat berkerja dengan kadar pengangguran 3.3%. Pada tahun 2008, 10.65 juta rakyat bekerja. Sekali pandang, ya, memang BN telah menyediakan 2 juta perkerjaan, namun MUTU yang dimaksudkan di sini masih lagi diragui kerana GDP per capita pada 2008 adalah USD 15.2k berbanding USD 15.8k pada 2013. Kenaikan USD 600 (RM 2,000) adalah sebanyak 4% dalam masa 5 tahun. Pendek kata, harga ayam naik lagi laju dari gaji. Oleh itu, marilah kita jual ayam.

Mari bandingkan dengan jiran kegemaran kita, Singapore. USD 51.5k pada 2008 dan USD 60.5k pada 2012. Rujuk kepada jadual untuk Indonesia dan Thailand.

Negara lain bangkit dengan kadar 2 digit, Malaysia hanya 4%, 1% setiap tahun. Ini kerja gila. Inflasi yang ditulis Bank Negara adalah sebanyak 3% setahun.

Keputusan NH: JANJI DICAPATI perlu focus kepada perkataan “pekerjaan bermutu”, malangnya pekerjaan kita tidak bermutu.

4. Mengurangkan lagi defisit fiskal negara.

Pada tahun 2008, jumlah hutang negara RM285 billion, termasuk domestik dan luar negara. Manakala 2011, hutang negara berada pada RM 456 billion. Walaupun banyak pendapat mengatakan ini dapat diimbal-balik dengan GDP, hakikatnya, jumlah hutang tidak masuk akal. Ini juga bermakna, bagi setiap rakyat Malaysia, hutangnya adalah sebanyak RM 16,800 (jumlah 28 juta penduduk).

Namun begitu bajet atau nama Melayu nya, belanjawan, langsung tidak mencerminkan keinginan untuk membayar hutang tersebut. Sebaliknya kerajaan terus berbelanja lebih dari pendapatan negara. Ini bermakna, kita terpaksa mengambil hutang bagi menampung perbelanjaan. Jadual di bawah adalah Belanjawan bagi negara ASEAN lain pada 2012.

Mengikut jadual di atas, negara paling boros adalah Malaysia. Oleh itu, sudah terang kerajaan yang dibentuk BN tidak menepati janji untuk melunaskan/ mengurangkan hutang negara. Secara langsungnya, cucu cicit kita yang akan menanggung hutang ini.

Keputusan NH: Janji DICAPATI

5. Melaksanakan pelan pembangunan lima koridor ekonomi

Koridor yang dimaksudkan adalah pembangunan lima wilayah koridor ekonomi iaitu di Johor (Iskandar Malaysia); Perlis, Kedah, Pulau Pinang dan utara Perak (NCER); Terengganu, Pahang, Kelantan dan Mersing, Johor (ECER); Sabah (SDC) dan Sarawak (SCORE). Sandaran tentang bukti pembangunan adalah mudah, bukti melalui Progress Report kerana ini adalah pelaburan duit rakyat, maka perlulah menyediakan report. Lagipun sudah 5 tahun, maka perlulah ada sesuatu yang dapat ditonjolkan.

• Iskandar Malaysia – Ada pembangunan, ada progress report DITEPATI
• NCER – TIADA progress report, JANJI DICAPATI.
• ECER - TIADA progress report, JANJI DICAPATI.
• SDC – Ada annual report, DITEPATI.
• SCORE – Ada annual report. DITEPATI.

Jika projek berbillion sebegini tiada report, kenapa kita harus terus mencurahkan duit ke dalam ‘black hole’? Lebih baik focus kepada pembangunan lain. Namun jika kita buka satu-satu website koridor ekonomi ini, kita dapat lihat pelan dan rancangan mereka. Mungkin kerana mereka ini golongan lambat sikit nak faham, oleh itu ambil masa lebih sikit.

Part hartanah ni aku dah malas sikit, sebab perlukan pemahaman tentang GDV. Ini akan meng-over-drive-kan otak.

Keputusan NH: Janji ATAS PAGAR

Rumusan

Sepanjang tempoh 5 tahun dibawah pemerintahan BN

• 1 Janji ATAS PAGAR
• 3 Janji DICAPATI
• 1 tiada komen kerana tiada bukti.

ps: Beringatlah, antara sifat munafik adalah mungkir janji. Apa pendapat korang?