Malaysiakini : Thousands at Kelana Jaya to hear Anwar
while more than 10 thousand holding a fuel hike protest at Kelana Jaya stadium yesterday "6th July", in Penang.. more or less the same amount of crowd searching for a holidays destination at the Pisa stadium Matta Fair.
I was there yesterday with my wife looking for a nice hoidays to getaway from all this politically shit and i couldn't believe my eyes.. the stadium is pack with people rushing to spend money for holidays. so all the hype about the burden to the people and bla bla bla? all the complaints about chicken rice went up 50cents? to be honest! i don't see that happening in Penang at all or is that because the imcome margin has gone to a level where the poor getting poorer and been marginised? conclusion.. i don't see any changes of lifestyle wth the people of penang "at all" or we don't really need to?
more 30 thousand people protesting "money not enough" : more than 30 thousand peope buying holidays.
sign off - cv
First, everybody is angry about the increase of fuel in Malaysia, but i'm more angry becos they have to announce it hours before off working hour. why do they have to do this everytime? can't you announce it during the morning or early afternoon? im stuck for 2 hours becos everybody rushing to fill up their tank. I can understand why this time (last increase was just a mere 20cents), but this time it's almost 40% increased. So you can't blame ppl rushing to bombak the station.
next, why at this time? when Malaysia politic have the worst stability over..? as in the government have no idea the dissatisfaction of the rakyat toward them? the result is obvious during the March 12th election no? or it's merely a punishment? well, the answer lie within them. we wouldn't know for sure.
Let's go back to the fuel increase, remove the subsidy and let it flows by itself. smart decision, now, when i used to fill it up at 120myr full. i think it would cost me 160myr today onward. so lets do a simple calculation. I spend around 800-1000myr on fuel itself. so means im looking at 400myr a month increases. That could be a month installment for a decent car for fuck sake.
Thank god i cut down on booze now :)
took this last night at one of the gas station in penang, well when you are stuck with nothing to do; you take photo.
sign off - cv
