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on July 11, 2013

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Malaysia can never be a developed country

As a kid, I have experiences of going to the wet market to buy vege and meat for home cooking, and I have always marveled at woman who haggle and bargain for lower prices. . . . . . . Those days when people's income weren't always sufficient for sustaining a household, women are very rpudent in their spending, where a savings of 5 sen here and there, do make a difference. . . . . . . Today, everything is so different, majority of the people have enough money for a lot of other luxuries, BUT still, they haggle for discounts of 10 or 20 sen for every purchase they make, which is what I deemed unnecessary. . . . . . . Nowadays, when people change mobile phones faster that they change clothes, when people dine out at posh restaurants on every festival or 'special occasion' that comes along, a bargain of 10 or 20 sen per katty of lettuce isn't going to make much of a difference. . . . . . . If you are going to buy vege or meat or other foodstuff to be consumed at hom...

Where is the Malaysia Boleh spirit?

If our leader goes overseas to seek medical treatment, how is he going to convince the public that we have the Malaysia Boleh spirit?

FIRST is NOT 1st

First or ? I do not know when the US started naming the wife of their President "First lady", BUT I certainly managed to guess the convention behind this naming. While monarchies have a King, they also have a title for the King's wife, the "Queen". For countries like the US, where they always want to play things a little different from the Imperial system, they coined this 'President' for their highest authority. Then came the title for the wife of such. Since don't-know-when other countries like Malaysia begin to mimic everything American, we also adapted the "First Lady" 'glamour' into our govt authority. and someone begin to glue that title to the wife of our Prime Minister. BUT they who did the 'propaganda' forgot about one thing. here we have monarchies, a KIng and Queen above them all. Therefore, in Malaysia, 'First' need not necessarily mean "1st", not like what they did in the US. It is understandab...

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