Fueling the problem - Petrol price might double?
Jun 3, 2008 News Breaks
Not too long ago, I blogged about Tan Sri Vincent Tan joining the Billionairre’s club, and asked our 10 richest Malaysians to help out with the fuel subsidy after the Second Finance Minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop said that the new scheme for subsidised items (where he hinted that lower- and middle-income groups would benefit) - including fuel - will be announced by the Prime Minister Pak Lah.
Today’s headline in The Star:
New fuel subsidy
The article reported that a new fuel subsidy scheme will be announced by the Government tomorrow. I suppose this is part of the scheme that Tan Sri Nor was referring to?
Either way, this is the 11th month I’m paying for my car instalment - my first ever car. Those of you who have followed The Bangsar Boy (my fortnightly column in StarMetro) will know that I had some trouble deciding on what car to get and that was back in November 2006 - how fast time flies!) . Well, let’s just say that with the increase of fuel prices, I’m slightly regretting owning a car (not that I can survive without my car, but still).
Let’s just hope that the subsidies are good, and that fuel prices won’t hike too much. I’m already stretching my salary like crazy.
~ TOOK A BREAK FOR WORK ~
So, I took a break from writing this post ‘cos things got busy at work and now, I have just returned to the office from an outside meeting. On the way there, my car gave me a fuel warning, so I thought I might as well pump full tank in case prices go up tomorrow. It was about 88% empty so it cost me RM90.01.
I come back here and Ivy tells me that Malaysiakini has reported that fuel prices will double. If this is true, and I have no way to verify this at the moment, that means I would have to pay RM220 for a full tank? Good grief. Now I’m depressed.
Foong spoke her mind and she is not happy. But I came by HTNET who thought it would be fun running a competition. It’s called: “HTNet Speculate Guess The New Price Of Malaysian Petrol Contest”
Like any competition, terms and conditions apply - click here for details. It’s not my competition, and seeing as I might need the money, I think I will enter it too.
Incidentally, this post you are currently reading was not originally about how broke I am going to be, but about the front page photo from today’s The Star. You can see it also on the main page of The Star Online but the photo will be removed by tomorrow I think.
Anyway, the caption reads:
Ban comes into effect - A notice at a petrol station near Padang Besar in Perlis informing Thai motorists that they are not allowed to fill petrol as the ban on the sale of fuel to foreign cars in the northern states bordering Thailand took effect yesterday.
The “notice” reads: “Kenderaan Thailand tidak dibernarkan mengisi minyak!!!!”
Translated, that means “Thai vehicles are not allowed to pump fuel!!!!” and yes, there were four exclaimation marks. My question is (and this is genuine, not sarcastic), do the Thai people read Bahasa Malaysia?
6.00pm
Tags: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, cars, fuel, malaysiakini, oil, Pak Lah, petrol, Second Finance Minister, Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop, thailand, The Bangsar Boy, The Star
KLX is coming to town
Jun 2, 2008 Events
Yup, the mad man genius behind KL Freeze in Unison which I raved about previously has something new up his sleeve. All he is saying is it’s called KLX.
He (and the RandomActs crew) wants you to get involved, and has posted a video invitation in the wee hours of this morning (yes, Zain HD is very the high tech).
Hurry and view the video - there can only be 90 Random Agents invited.
There is also a Facebook events page for those of you who want pretend like you’re in the know and act cool - actually, no one knows anything just yet except the mastermind and maybe some of his minions =) (joking only yah, fellas) - but there is also a FAQ here. Oh yeah, he also mentioned that the idea came from ImprovEverywhere’s The MP3 Experiment.
I’m quite excited about it, so will be blogging about it for the rest of the week I’m sure.
Yes, I will be there for sure. Yo, orang KL, are you readies?
2.15pm
Tags: facebook, flash mob, kl freeze in unison, klx, Kuala Lumpur, randomacts, zain hd
The BRATs storms Penang
Jun 1, 2008 Trips
I have added at Captcha element to my blog - so you’ll need to take an extra step before leaving a comment. I sorry for this but the spam was getting too much. I hope this does not deter anyone from leaving a comment cos, well, I get excited when I see new comments. :)
I was going to share some pictures from my trip to Penang (yes, the same trip when I said I might not blog so frequently) but I thought that the best thing to do was to wait till today.
Why? Well, for one thing, I’ve been so busy since I came back on Tuesday when the workshop ended - mostly trying to get Ole BRATs, the pullout in The Star for the Bright, Roving, Annoying Teens which usually comes out on the last Sunday of the month. This time though, it came out today, mainly because the end of June would be way too long to run stories from the workshop, like we normally do.
If you want to read the stories, you can check them out here:
So anyway, I’ve finally uploaded some pictures I took onto Flickr account. Click the image below to visit my Flickr account.
A big part of the workshop is the multimedia element, where we teach the BRATs how to create videos as part of their assignments. You can view the videos at TheStarOnline.tv or click here, where I’ve embedded all the videos into one page for your viewing pleasure.
Also, lots of the participants themselves have blogged on their workshop. Seeing as I’ve been facilitating the workshop for a couple of years now, and that I probably will be doing it for some time, I thought I might also create a page listing the links to all the BRATs I know. After all, I joined the programme in 1995 (showing my age!!!) so consider this a tribute then.
11.58pm
Tags: brats, brats penang workshop 2008, penang, The Star, thestaronline.tv
