New Way of Identifying Genuine RM 50 Notes
What else can’t be wrong? We have heard that our new RM 50 notes should be the greatest in the world.
But it seems that the technology had been overdone. The latest development is, in order to verify the genuinity of a RM 50 (new version) notes, you can just put the money into washing machine, run a full cycle of washing. (In order to save energy and water, you may do it when you wash your clothes).
The real RM 50 notes will lose color after washing.
Don’t worry, that’s just prove that you have real RM 50 notes. After you have gotten light cover monies, just go to bank negara and exchange with new ones. Bank Negara acknowledge the problem and will definitely do the replacement for you.
A Letter from USA
A friend forwarded this to me via email. Agree or not? It’s up to you. But I do feel it worth rethink. Where are we now and where are we heading to? It’s brand new year for Lunar calendar. As all we hope, happiness and prosperity awaits us in the future. Happy Asian Lunar New Year.
A Malaysian diaspora speaks up….
I am a female Chinese Malaysian, living in the Washington DC area in the United States . I have read many of the letters that often talk about foreign countries when the writers have no real knowledge of actually living in those countries.
Many draw conclusions about what those countries are like after hearing it from someone else or by reading and hearing about them in the media or after four years in a college town in those countries.
I finished STPM with outstanding results from the prestigious St George’s Girls School in Penang . Did I get a university place from the Malaysian government? Nothing.. With near perfect scores, I had nothing, while my Malay friends were getting offers to go overseas.
Even those with 2As got into university. I was so depressed. I was my parent’s last hope for getting the family out of poverty and at 18, I thought I had failed my parents.
Today, I understand it was the Malaysian Government that had failed me and my family because of its iscriminatory policies.
Fortunately, I did not give up and immediately did research at the Malaysian American Commission on Education Exchange (MACEE) to find a university in the US that would accept me and provide all the finances. My family and
friends thought I was crazy, being the youngest of nine children of a very poor carpenter. Anything that required a fee was out of our reach.
Based on merit and my extracurricular activities of community service in secondary school, I received full tuition scholarship, work study, and grants to cover the four years at a highly competitive US university.
Often, I took 21 credits each semester, 15 credits each term while working 20 hours each week and maintaining a 3.5 CGPA. A couple of semesters, I also received division scholarships and worked as a TA (teaching assistant) on top of everything else.
For the work study, I worked as a custodian (yes, cleaning toilets), carpet layer, computer lab assistant, grounds keeping, librarian, painter, tour guide, etc. If you understand the US credit system, you will understand this is a heavy load.
Why did I do it? This is because I learnt as a young child from my parents that hard work is an opportunity, to give my best in everything, and to take pride in the work I do. I walked away with a double major and a minor with honours but most of all a great lesson in humility and a great respect for those who are forced to labour in so-called `blue collar’ positions.
Those of you who think you know all about Australia , US, or the West, think again. Unless you have really lived in these countries, i.e. paid a mortgage, paid taxes, taken part in elections, you do not understand the level of commitment and hard work it takes to be successful in these countries, not just for immigrants but for people who have lived here for generations.
These people are where they are today because of hard work. (Of course, I am not saying everyone in the US is hardworking… There is always the lazy lot which lives off of someone else’s hard work. Fortunately, they are the
minority..)
Every single person, anywhere, should have the opportunity to succeed if they want to put in the effort and be accountable for their own actions. In the end, they should be able to reap what they sow.
It is bearable that opportunities are limited depending on how well-off financially one’s family is but when higher education opportunities are race-based, like it is in Malaysia ; it is downright cruel for those who see education as the only way out of poverty.
If you want to say discrimination is here in the US , yes, of course it is. Can you name a country where it doesn’t happen? But let me tell you one thing – if you go looking for it, you will find it.
But in Malaysia , you don’t have to go look for it because it seeks you out, slaps you in your face every which way you turn, and is sanctioned by law!
Here in the US , my children have the same opportunity to go to school and learn just like their black, white, and immigrant friends. At school, they eat the same food, play the same games, are taught the same classes and when they are 18, they will still have the same opportunities. would I want to bring my children back to Malaysia ?
So they can suffer the state-sanctioned discrimination as the non-malays have for over 50 years?
The injustice the non-Malay have to suffer in frightening silence is the most damaging problem one has to face throughout one’s life. You just have to look at the mighty govt structures which completely favours only one race, the Umno Malay.
The Chinese and Indians are treated no better than the illegal Indonesians.
Racism and corruption are openly practised by the Malay politicians everywhere, Courts, schools/Uni, police, govt offices, contracts, GLC, NEP, ISA, local govt.
It’s so powerful and intimidating that you walk with fear and keep your mouth shut on anything and everything political.
Religion is taboo unless you talk good about Islam.
As for being a slave in the foreign country, I am a happy ’slave’ earning a good income as an IT project manager.
I work five days a week; can talk bad about the president when I want to; argue about politics, race and religion openly; gather with more than 50 friends and family when I want (no permit needed) and I don’t worry about the police pulling me over because they say I ran the light when I didn’t.
Have we seen the light at the end of the tunnel yet (Anwar Ibrahim)?
Or is it the head light of an oncoming Umno train ?
Lets hope its the former for the sake of all fair minded Malaysians.
The dream of a Malaysian ‘race’ in the future is nowhere in sight with the present BN govt.
Where is Negara-Ku???
Let’s Float
How much we spent to get Malaysian’s very first national owned sub-marine?
And now we heard that it refused to dive. It prefer to float all the way.
Alright, nothing’s perfect. Even world reputable car makers, Toyota and Honda recalls their cars that having serious design and manufacturing defects.
However, how many times a submarine fail to dive? We won’t know. Maybe other countries faced the same problem, and treated the problem as top secret and nobody in the world knows about it.
But what we have?
Defense Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said: “We have a warranty on the sub and we are confident the builders can fix it.”
Good. It’s so great attitude that our minister is honest enough to let people know about the defect. And, even better is, we know that we have to rely 100% on the ‘builders’ to fix it.
I just want to ask some question.
1. The problem occurred because of manufacturing defect, or because of human error while operating it?
2. Why the problem was not at first detected before the sub was handed over? Why our Ministry of Defense willing to accept such a sub quality product?
3. Is that a very serious failure, so complicated that our own engineers (I believe, we of course have packaged trainings for service engineers in the procurement contract), not able to solve? Or due to reliance to the ‘builder’, we don’t even bother to build our skill sets to solve the problems.
So, enough of bullshxt. We don’t even need a submarine at the first place. So what the hey if the sub can only float. What’s bothers more is our attitude towards problems when shxt happens.
I guess there won’t be much objection if I conclude that the attitude of what MinDef showed on this problem is ‘FAILED’.
Ok, Let’s Forget About the Engine, But…
We want to have the integrity and transparency back. We want to have somebody responsible.
It was a ‘good’ news (?) that the air force manage to locate the stolen 2 pieces of fighter jet engines.
Ok, now the discussion is whether and how to transfer the engines back?
Yet, that is not important at all because in accordance to our lovely PM Najib, the engines are too old and not at all worth to take back.
Fine. Then let’s don’t waste time on that.
So, considered case closed? And we have a happy ending now?
Not yet. So far no reasonable conclusion on how the hell the two pity jet engine been transferred out of the air force base. Who the hell have the contact and capability to sell them so far away out of the country.
Most importantly, it was indeed happening during the tenure of Najib as Minister of Defense. How come we don’t even have a clear explanation from him? Shouldn’t him be the one who have to at least take part of the responsibility?
Can we just leave it remains silence and soon forgotten? What else can be missing later?
Win on Paper, Lost the Reality?
By high court ruling, Zamry stand still.
However, is that means BN win the war?
It might be yes, might be no. In general, more that we hear is voice of objection.
We are not against high court decision. Indeed, it do make sense. It is based on principle of majority.
But, what people wants? Let’s have a fair competition all over again. If it is true that Rakyat supports the BN government, why not?
The reality is, BN do not have enough capital to fight with people. What they can do now is to make use of the government engine, that supposed to be fair and independent, to attack fellow pakatan leaders.
Therefore, it’s really a crucial election of the upcoming 13th GE for Malaysia to change – change for a better future. If we were to stay as current, we have no hope of moving forward fast enough to compete with the region, not to mention the whole world.
