Recovery

The Prime Minister announced that Malaysia economy is out of recession, that 4Q 2009 registered a 4.5% increase in GDP.

What does this means to the ordinary Malaysian?

The main street is still suffering from haunted inflation coming with pending increare in pump prices, electricity tariff, and threats from privatized water company to force the Selangor state government to approve its revised tariff or to pay RM300million compensation.

In short, the ordinary people still struggle to earn enough for their basic needs even before the pending increase in prices and tariff.

When refer to the latest Consumer Price Index, CPI for Dec 2009 is 0.2%, while unemployment is posted as 3.6%.

Based on the statistics, Malaysia is really doing good.

But, do you feel it?

The 4Q 2009 GDP growth may be attributed to greater export demand, especially to US, since US records 4% increase for the same quarter.

Can this sustain? I do not know. The US better than expected growth was, to many economists, is due to government stimulus package, bailout of big banks and automotive industry, and partly due to replenishment of inventory for the holiday season.

If this is true, we may see a softer growth or worse, a U-turn for US GDP for 1Q 2010 since situation does not realy improve based on ordinary economic activities but intervention of authority in the form of stimulus and bailout, and chronically motivated growth in 4Q 2009, ie holidays.

How will this impact Malaysia? US is the single largest buyer for our export goods, and Malaysia economy is export oriented. If US goes south, we will sink together, lesser export means lesser production means fewer job opportunity.

Even if US are on track as President Obama claimed for its recovery, and Malaysia tags on US economy and achieved 5% growth for 2010, the ordinary Malaysian will still face a great challenge right in-front of them: INFLATION.

Thus, the GDP growth may be offset by greater increase in cost of living. This is enough to put almost all lower and middle income group in a state where keeping themselves going is too big a task to swallow.


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Masjid Jamek, have you not hear us?

Masjid Jamek, the ladnmark mosque in the heart of metropolitan Kuala Lumpur, stood at the junction where two rivers meet.




This is the place where I started moving my feet to show support for Makhai Sakti.

This is the place where I started my journey showing support to RPK on his birthday.

And this is the place where the brutal evil force firing chemical and tear gas to those seeking for justice.

Masjid Jamek, have you not see enough?

Masjid Jamek, have you not hear our cry for justice?



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涨价

＂亲民＂的国震，

请问你知不知道外边的食物都涨价了？

你知不知道现在要填饱肚子要比五年前贵了50%？

你知不知道鸡蛋比3年前贵了50%？

你知不知道米价涨了过后就没落价？

你知不知道我们永远买不到最便宜（RM1.75／公斤）的15%劣等米？

你知不知道？

你知不知道涨价还不是最可怕的？

最可怕的是你们什么都不是，象足一条只会寄生在我们身上的超级大水蛭！

＂亲民＂的国震大水蛭，我倒要放长双眼。。。。

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共鸣

＂我们要帮助那些因为天生有缺陷而不能自食其力的人，但历史的经验说，除了在制度上给予穷人自力更生的机会，所有扶贫政策都害了穷人，因为一律是为压力团体的利益而逼出来的。＂--张五常教授

原文：http://www.google.com/gwt/n?&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog%2Ecnfol%2Ecom%2Fzhangwuchang%2Farticle%2F9419501%2Ehtml




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狗和猫都能一起睡

当狗和猫能一起睡觉、一起吃饭时，人类却为了所谓的宗教、种族而互相排斥。

万物之灵，当之有愧！

谢谢大米的新年晚饭

大米邀波波和我到她家去吃饭，初三的晚饭，吃的好香。

原来大米的厨艺还真有两下。

还有大米男人亲自炮制咖啡，加上顶级冻顶乌龙，哇！不得了！

最后要提的是大米的男孩，全程任天堂，就连吃饭也可以一面吃一面玩，了不起！

这一家三口，各有所长，顶呱呱！

潜水艇还是游艇？

花了钱买潜水艇，可是潜水艇不潜水要来干嘛？

还是。。。。。。。有人阴魂不散？？

不知下水後会不会有阴魂住在里边？？？

大馬的尷尬‧10億潛水艇無法下水

（吉隆坡）馬來西亞第一艘潛水艇“KD東姑阿都拉曼”號還未正式服役就面對無法潛在水中的問題。

英文《馬來郵報》報導，這個技術性問題導致價值這艘由法國製造，耗資逾10億令吉的蠍子型潛水艇被迫延遲進行熱帶潛水測試；這項測試本應在1月杪完成。

報導說，有關方面是在上週才修復這個長達3個月的技術問題。

近日下水測試負責製造的DCNS造船廠為此延長有關潛水艇的保證期，從原來的1月25日延長至5月，以便“KD東姑阿都拉曼”號能完成下水測試，以達致初步操作能力的第一步。

國防衛隊首長丹斯里阿都阿茲向《馬來郵報》指出，在DCNS造船廠修復好潛水艇後，下水測試將於本週開始進行。

“我們不允許潛水艇在安全有問題的情況下下水，現在問題解決了，自然能進行測試。”

“KD東姑阿都拉曼”號在法國進行兩年測試後，在去年正式移交大馬。

指問題很常見阿都阿茲說，“KD東姑阿都拉曼”號迄今未獲得初步操作能力，因為之前在保證期內發生的問題使潛水艇不能下水。

“根據合約，熱帶潛水測試必須於1月25日前完成，但DCNS造船廠同意延長至今年5月，以鑑定沒有其他問題。”

此外，來自國防工業的消息人士說，新船或潛水艇有問題是很常見的事，並形容新潛水艇的問題“就像創業階段的困難，但同意，潛水艇應該可以下水才對”。

常见？？妈的如果是你我制造的死刑都有份

消息說，這就與1990年底才投入服務的皇家澳洲海軍與瑞士製造的柯林級潛水艇所面對的問題一樣。

哎呀！其他先进国都有这问题，马来西亚的不是问题咯？

不知道俄国美国中国潜水艇有没有类似“潜水艇不能下水“的问题？？

疑问

一直都想不通为什么安华的案件不是在回教法庭审，而是在刑事法庭。

安华是回教徒，塞阜也是回教徒，既然两个都是回教徒，而回教法庭也可以审肛交，那回教法庭不是应该是首选吗？

难道在回教法庭起诉安华不对？

要是根据断肢法，小偷可被判断手；安华要被判罪成，不是要被切掉那话儿吗？

要是安华被判罪成而被一刀切，塞阜不是会感觉更好吗？

还有国阵上下不是更应该放鞭炮？

把安华弄成太监，民联也会自动自宫，不是更好吗？

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iPhone 3G, Firmware 3.1.3, Push notification

I was upgrading my iPhone 3G days ago (read here).

Everything runs perfectly after a fresh restore, and I have decided at that point to restore all my data, i.e. including SMS history and other stuff.

Except: Push Notifications.

I have not been able to get push notifications for the past 2 days, after checking thru the settings, I am pretty sure that everything is what it supposed to be.

Hell! the good 2 days I was living in the dark trying to figure out what gone wrong, why my wife's 3GS (she upgraded herself, I did not help her this time) gets push notifications for her emails (using Boxcar), and facebook, but not my 3G.

The 2 sets are different, she is using 3GS from Maxis, the official carrier in Malaysia, while I am using 3G with Celcom as carrier.

The first suspect is: Is Celcom blocking my push notifications? Or is Celcom having problem with Apple's push notifications?

Well, it is not. I realised when I switched over to WiFi and still get nothing, absolute quiet (I am getting about 30 to 40 notifications from various sources, and no notifications make me worried)

Second suspect is: Apple doesn't like unofficial carrier, thus they did not push my notifications.

I Googled, but no one seems to have the same problem.

Then I turned to twitter and facebook, hoping someone with similar experience have a solution, no luck.

Third suspect: Left over settings from previously jail-broken 3.1.2 firmware was stopped by 3.1.3.

This is a painful decision, means I need to restore the 3.1.3, and treat it as a new phone, thus, I lost all my settings, SMSs, etc.

Do I have a choice? No, I guess.

Then I redo restore, treat it as a new phone, went thru the pain to put back all my Apps, my music, my podcasts... Not to mention going thru every single app to key in my credentials.

This time it works like charm!

Conclusion: If you have previously jail-broken your iPhone and wish to upgrade to firmware 3.1.3, make sure you restore as a new phone instead of either update or restore with your old settings.

I can go back to my routine now, and enjoy realtime notifications as it comes in!

问题

最近发生一连串的事件，对许多人来说简直是目不暇接：

从赵明福、牛头、阿X、F5阴茎、焚烧教堂、一个马来西亚的华印历史、到最高潮的塞阜菊花，条条精彩。

有没有认真的想一想，这些都是单一的事件吗？

这些事件，除了塞阜菊花，都只有一个目的，就是制造问题。

是谁要制造问题？是谁希望不断有问题？

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塞阜菊花

塞阜先生今天终于隆重登场。

之前塞阜先生说他的菊花被华叔霸王硬上弓，惨痛失守。

之后蒙＂主＂宠召，为塞阜先生指点迷津后，铁了心到医院验菊花。

塞阜先生先到私人医院让医生检验他的菊花，顺道告知医生他被人唱后庭花。

除非情形紧急，一般人若要验伤都会到政府医院去，而且任何医院都有警员驻守，若要报案，都可以在同一个医院进行。

而塞阜先生被＂主＂劝导去报案，先去的是私人医院，检验完毕被告之菊花完璧后，再花两个半小时到路程不到1公里的中央医院再检验，才慢条斯理的报案。

其中就有点费解。

今天塞阜先生出庭供证，说华叔讲：＂Can I fxxk you today?＂

华叔还挺有绅士风度？！

一般人若被人如此＂称呼＂，会不会淡淡定定的听话、洗白白、围条毛巾等着被干？

而控方举证说在塞阜的菊花内发现华叔的精华。

这更奇怪了。

根据两份＂初步＂医疗报告说塞阜的菊花完好如处，化验后又找到菊花内有华叔的精华，那到底是怎么回事？

难道是华叔之剑乃无型之剑，能进出自如、不留痕迹？


又或是华叔是快枪手，兵临城下还来不及插入时一泻如注？

如果还来不及插入就一泻如注，就是说没有进入，算不算肛交？

要不是肛交，那华叔犯的是何法？

这答案，我孤陋寡闻，想不通。


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Upgrading to iPhone firmware 3.1.3

Update: it requires no mobileconfig from http://help.bemn.at,

It just works!

Settings thru Settings/General/Cellular network below








Yes, I did it!

And YES! Tethering is available on Celcom, but not via IPCC. You need to create a mobileconfig file, and can be done via your iPhone's Safari here (http://help.bemn.at)

lastly, it is good if you do a restore instead of update. Mine was jailbroken because I need 2 features which is not available on 3.1.2, i.e. tether via unofficial carrier, i.e. Celcom, and I love running Stitcher Radio at the background so I can still run other apps while listening to live news.

The steps:

1. click restore when your PC/Mac is connected to the Internet, and your iPhone is connected to your PC/Mac, and your iTunes running;

2. iTunes will ask you to upgrade to 3.1.3, just say yes or continue

3. After about 5 minutes, your iPhone is done, and restarted

4. open Safari, goto http://help.bemn.at

5. click on Tethering >

6. scroll to the end, and click on custom mobile config

7. Give a name to your mobileconfig, in my case: Celcom

8. APN: celcom3g, leave blank for username and password

9. for MMS configuration, APN: celcom3g

usernama and password both blank

MMSC: http://mms.celcom.net.my

MMSC Proxy: 10.128.1.242:8080

leave the rest blank

10. click download, click install button on the mobile config screen, once, done, restart your iPhone.

11. check whether you done it right:

a. goto Settings/General/Network, tethering should be there

b. launch Messages app, you should have a small camera on the left of your message entry field.

Simple, right?