Tax Returns

Today is the final day for those taxpayers to submit their BE forms, including me. But once you know that you are paying for the government and getting back nothing, you will be sad for that. You just can’t believe that how smart enough our BN government spent our money in Ijok buy-election. Yes, they win but with all our taxpayers’ money. You can’t imagine that a small area with little development before is like suddenly winning “once-in-a-lifetime” lottery. So, you all have to pray for your assemblyman suddenly getting heart-attack. Sorry for saying that. It’s much easy than you winning the lottery, I think. If you ever went there last week, you could see incredible development in such a pace. Then, you really believe in “Malaysia Boleh” slogan. When you know that you have to pay tax to the government, and your money will go to Ijok, which I personally think that it’s unnecessary. Then, you will echo the same sentiment, “I am sad for Malaysia”.

The Republic of Apartments

I have had short discussion with my Korean friend before on this. Just read it why Koreans prefer apartment rather than landed properties.

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200704/200704240024.html

Free Speech is Enhanced by Civility?

Do you think that it's time for us to have code of conduct? Then our Ministry of Energy, Water and Communications plans to ask Bloggers using local hosted web-site to register. Censorship on Bloggers?

Weekend Activities

Attended the IEEE ComSoc/VT Strategic Planning meeting on Saturday. Learn a new group decision making technique known as Quality Function Deployment (QFD). It is indeed a useful way of making group decision. We had invited Prof. Lawrence Wong from NUS as facilitator and he did a good job for sharing his knowledge and experience in running the society. I had learned one or two things during the meeting. At night, I had attended one of ex-housemate weeding dinner with my girlfriend.

Then, went to Machap Baru on Sunday. It was hectic schedule and I had to wake up as early as 5 morning. My friend asked me to become one of the moderators for the workshop discussion session since I had experience in election campaign ten years ago. The major event was the Peoples Forum in Machap Flat at night. Several speakers went on the stage to share their views, include press freedom, election monitoring, SOS issue and etc. I hate to say that BN will have no problem winning the seat based on the feedback during door-to-door visit.