I knew it from the start that the petrol price will definitely go up. It didn’t happened back then in early July but it’ll be up 10 cent effective midmight tonight.

July 30, 2005 23:26 PM

Fuel Prices Up Again, 20 Sen Hike For Diesel, 10 Sen For Petrol

KUALA LUMPUR, July 30 (Bernama) — The government Saturday announced increases in the retail price for diesel, petrol and LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) by 20 sen, 10 sen and five sen per litre effective Sunday.

The Prime Minister’s Office, in a press statement tonight, said the increase was part of government efforts to tackle the impact of the increase in the crude oil price in the world market and to check the increase in subsidy which the government had to bear.

With the latest increase, the retail price for premium petrol (RON97) in Peninsular Malaysia is now RM1.62 per litre, petrol (RON 92) RM1.58 per litre, diesel RM1.281 per litre and LPG RM1.45 per kilogram.

In Sabah and Sarawak, the new retail price for RON 97 is RM1.60 and RM1.61 per litre respectively, RON 92 RM1.58 in both states, while diesel is RM1.284 and RM1.278 per litre respectively while LPG is RM1.53 per kilogram in both states.

This is the second time the government had announced increases in the prices of petroleum products within a two-month period. The last price increase was in May.

At the same time, the government also announced a 20 sen increase in the subsidy for fishermen from 44.1 sen to 64.1 sen per litre. This means that fishermen will be able to buy subsidised diesel at around RM1.20.

This was because the government was very concerned about the burden borne by fishermen who were buying subsidised diesel at a much higher price compared to the price enjoyed by land transport operators.

According to the statement, the government had been bearing the subsidy for petroleum products which was rising. The subsidy borne in 2004 amounted to RM4.8 billion and the figure was expected to increase to RM6.63 billion by the end of the year.

The figure for this year had taken into account the increase which took effect on July 31, 2005. In addition, the government would also be bearing the burden in terms of tax exemption for the year 2005 amounting to RM7.85 billion.

This means that the overall loss burden borne by the government is RM14.48 billion.

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http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news.php?id=147782

What a total bullshit! Back in early July, they said there will be no price increase! yeahh right! One month later ma …right!?

KANNEH SIEN!

I thought I will have a good game of basketball last night since I went earlier but turned out to be quite tragedy for me. My jump shots are all out, my lay-ups are way off board and i can’t even pass the ball nicely. An hour later, someone knocked my bad left knee. I was limping for a while but I managed to carry on. Another hour later, I’m out.

We were up 4-2 when the offensive team lost the ball from a bad rebound. Myself and the opposing player were running after the lose ball when he accidentally bumped into my left shoulder so hard I heard a tear and crashed down on the grown. That’s it, game over for me for the night.

I don’t know what happened to my shoulder. I’m afraid my old injury will be affected. I fractured my collar bone when I was really young. Then again, I could still raise and move my left arm but with a sore. So what is really wrong with it? I know it took me 5 minutes to take off and putting on my t-shirt to shower.

Sigh, anyone knows of a good ‘thit tha’ (Chinese Doc)?

For the past 2 weeks we’ve (myself and KY) been trying hard to look for a hokkien kwa(song) entitled “ji pak ban” ( one million ) but to no avail. This hokkien song goes something like this … “na si gua uh ji pa ban!!!!! wa beh je puey kee!!!” ( If I’ve got one million, I wanna fly on a plane ). I’ve tried hard seaching on the net but it’s pretty hard to find a hokkien song in ENGLISH!! Kanneh!

Somehow, I came across this other hokkien song that was posted in some forum and it’s fucking hilarious can! Here’s how the song goes …

lu long wa long,
wa long lu song
wa tit tit long,
lu tit tit song,

wa kong mai long,
lu kong beh tong,
wah tit tit long,
lu tit tit kong beh tong.

Translation … and I mean DIRECT translation from hokkien to english

i bang you bang,
i bang you enjoy,
i keep banging,
you keep enjoying,

i say don’t bang,
you say cannot take it,
i keep banging,
you keep saying cannot take it.

I’ve just recently bought a cool little gadget for Julea. Since Julea’s car comes with a standard car player, I’ve decided to get something that can adapt her MP3 players to her existing car stereo system.

So I got her this nifty little gadget, it’s a MP3 FM Modulator. Yes, a MP3 FM Modulator. Probably most of you would have heard or even seen it before but this gadget is so cool that it deserves a re-introduction.

This FM Modulator plays all your audio devices wirelessly through your car stereo system and turns any USB memory drive into MP3 player. It comes with 7 FM modulator presets that a local radio station is not broadcasting on.

What you see here are the few devices that I pluged in into the FM Modulator.

So how to use it?

For USB memory drive :
1) Plug FM Modulator into vehicle’s 12 Volt adaptor.
2) Plug your USB drive into FM Modulator’s USB port.
3) Select one of the 7 FM Modulator Presets that a local radio station is not broadcasting on.
4) Tune your car stereo to the same FM freqeuncy as the FM Modulator.
5) Press the PLAY button and the music transmit to the vehicle’s stereo system.

For use with MP3, CD, or DVD player :
1) Plug FM Modulator into vehicle’s 12 Volt adaptor.
2) Using the provided audio cable, plug your MP3, CD, DVD player or rather audio devices into the FM Modulator’s stereo jack.
3) Select one of the 7 FM Modulator Presets that a local radio station is not broadcasting on.
4) Tune your car stereo to the selected FM Presets and enjoy the music from your audio devices.

I tell you, this device may not be the best invented gadget but it’s really cool for those who does and doesn’t own a car CD player.

I got this gadget from Studio 78, AsiaCafe for a reasonable price of RM150. As for the quality of the sound/music, it’s almost as good as you’re playing a CD…well, almost. Not bad indeed

Studio 78 is on the first floor of AsiaCafe which is located right infront of Taylor’s/Inti College, SS15 Subang Jaya.

I’ve been hearing quite a lot of negative feedbacks and reviews about the movie Fantastic Four from certain people especially from my pet sis Radiance. Being a 70’s child, I was brought up worshipping these heroes. They are every children’s superheroes. Even after all the bad feedbacks, I still wanted to watch the movie…and I did.

I watched it with my girlfriend Julea over at Pacific Megamall Cineplex and we loved it. Enough said.

Seriously, the whole plot and CG of the movie may not be the best but it’s the live of these superheroes that counts. Bringing them alive on the silver screen totally brings back my childhood moments. I’ve always wish to be a superhero like them. I’ll leave the story telling to the real pros…

The story as laid out in the film version of the “Fantastic Four” follows Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd), a brilliant but broke scientist and his good buddy Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis) as they go against everything they know is right and ask Victor Von Doom (Julian McMahon) for help with an experiment that’s sure to make them all rich and famous – or even wealthier and more famous in the case of Von Doom.

The backstory that’s quickly laid out in the opening moments of the film lets us uninitiated “Fantastic Four�? viewers in on the secret that Von Doom’s beautiful assistant, Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), once had a relationship with Richards before determining that he was just like most men (yes, that’s a snide remark but I couldn’t resist). Reeds spoke without thinking and didn’t pay enough attention to their relationship so now she’s moved on to the handsome Von Doom, a narcissistic businessman who in all honesty cares for her less than he cares for his mirror. I’m dwelling on the relationship aspect of the storyline as that’s basically what the film’s all about. Sure there are special effects, and there’s the requisite bad guy who needs to be dealt with, but the movie’s really all about …

Extracted from http://movies.about.com/od/fantasticfour/a/fantastic070705.htm

Some of my young friends didn’t appreciate the movie at all. Problem is not the movie, it was them and in fact most of the youngsters today. Most of these ‘young critics’ were not even born yet to appreciate the Fantastic Four.

The very first superhero team book Marvel put out was Fantastic Four #1, which came out in 1961.