So this is Christmas

~ Betch

On behalf of my blog partners, we wish everyone a very blessed Christmas and a happy new year. Let's end 2011 with a bang and welcome 2012 with open arms!

"Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home." ~ Carol Nelson

Malaysian Government is Overspending?

With the announcement of the recent budget 2012 which has promised many benefits to the lower income earners such as financial aids worth RM 500, RM 200 voucher for tertiary education students including form sixes and RM 100 aids for every students. Is this a mere political play just to capture the majority of the voters who are in the lower and middle income earners?

The current government could use those as a justification to the lowly educated voter on why they should choose the current government....

(Let's hope for a cleaner election!)

In Penang again

~ Betch

Now here's a disclaimer for the title... I intend it to sound like a sequel to the 'In Penang' post, so I'm not slighting Penang. Plus, I didn't wanna sound like I was some movie. So I just called it 'In Penang again' to sound different. I'm no rebel, believe me, but in some cases, different is good.

Well anyway, I went to Penang again with the same two friends I was with before. Aside from them being fantastic company, they were also hugely effortless to have a holiday with because they're spontaneous and unfussy. So the trip went very well, did a lot of walking and bus rides which was fun. The buses in Penang are quite spotless if you compare them to the KL ones. Rapid Penang should honestly give Rapid KL a call and offer them some advice about cleanliness and management.

Again, we ate mostly and did a lot of waiting for buses and pausing for directions. The usual tourist conundrum, you know. We stayed at the Tune Hotel which was a lot of fun, but I think the other guests say different, because I was making so much of noise during the night time. My friends were trying to calm me but really, I was just being loud and cracking jokes at anything or anyone. Speaking of the Tune Hotel, they have an excellent concept going on and it'll be to your benefit if you have a budget.

My friends and I encountered a homeless lady who was schizophrenic (I think). She was just by the bus stand where we were when she suddenly jumped up, whipped around and screamed, "Get away, devil!" She then continued speaking in hushed tones to this other being next to her and walked up and down the street. My friends and I were sombre for her predicament. She shouldn't even be on the streets, considering her state. Sighz.

We didn't go to the beach this time round. It was really more of a food getaway. So by the time we got home to KL, all of us had acquired two extra chins. They're gone now, thank goodness.

Penang's a well-rounded place in the sense that it has a balance of the suburbs and a city implemented into it which is great for people like me who can't decide whether he's for the city or the suburbs.

The Penang government should be paying me for promoting their state. But I shall shut an eye and do it for free... as I've already done. 

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. – Dagobert D. Runes

In Penang

~ Betch

This has been WAY overdue. The story of the Penang trips in one year. I meant to tell it earlier but with schedule clashes and busy periods (this year has been rather overwhelming), it was quite hard to manage. SO anyways, here it is... the first two trips of Penang. Both were great, don't get me wrong, but the first one was quite challenging.

The first trip happened some time back in May I think, when two college friends and I went camping in Penang. I know, you'd think, when did camping ever interest me? But these two friends of mine were rather insistent that I should experience camping out. So off we went to Pantai Kerachut, Penang, where we spent the night in this campsite. 

The mosquitoes were pure bloody murder (Listerine is NOT a mosquito repellent) and like that wasn't enough, I got stung by a jellyfish when I was swimming in the beach! OH HEAVEN HAVE MERCY, I can still feel the raging sting that plagued my right hand. It looked as if a thousand insects of various kinds just landed on the same spot of my right hand and bit me. So you can imagine me (if you know me), I just started prancing and dancing and singing around the beach to take the pain away... AFTER I applied vinegar to the stung hand. Oh, the ringing pain.

So then, my friends and I retired for the night and ate food that was pre-prepared. Of course we had marshmallows and stuff over a fire. That was great. And to think the challenge of the day was over... 

We all went to sleep. I had trouble though. The air was humid and heavy, which made me feel uneasy. I rolled about for a long time and just when I fell asleep, I heard a kerfuffle next to me and realised my friends had awoken. I turned and that was when I felt the first drop of water on my face, followed by another, and then another and before I said "Oh piss", it was raining! And best of all, the tent wasn't protecting us from it! What kind of tent isn't waterproof?!!!! My question was later answered when my friend who got it said, "I got it for free." *heaves and sighs*

We moved to this hall, and spent the rest of the night there. I couldn't sleep at all. I was a feast for the mosquitoes that trailed me as I spent the rest of the night till morning walking in circles to stop them from biting me. My friend thought I was doing my devotional reading and praying. LOL. I was definitely praying... praying for time to speed up so morning will come and we all could leave.

The rest of the trip was spent in an apartment we booked for three days. We spent most of our time eating really. What else do you do in Penang aside from eat and go to the beach? It's the most affordable thing to do as a tourist and if people know me well, they know I like affordable. It's safe grounds. :D

Well, after camping, I suppose it was an eye-opening experience. Honestly, I dunno if I'll ever go camping again.

(to be continued...)

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The Top Stocks Prices in Bursa Malaysia

Topping the list is British American Tobacco (Malaysia) with RM 47.50 and it normally changes a little up or down and comparing to Nestle (Malaysia), the second, RM 43.00.

Some old statistics are as shown:

 

There are several reasons which make them so. Good governance of the organizations and being in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) are the main factors that have possibly reason. They are in the low risk business and it can be said that they will definitely generate a steady cash flow and surplus.

Malaysian Government Possible Way Of Buying The People Votes?

Instead of sourcing the money of resources to the real poor people, I have noticed that food such as rice, oil and groceries are being distributed massively to anyone with the election just around the corner. I do not accuse the government of trying to get cheap publication and votes through this method but, personally to me, I find this way of channeling the resources wrong. The people who gets the allocated resources consists of society which is well to do and are just purely greedy... It is a waste of the nations money, if it was sponsored by the government.... Again, I do not have a concrete facts of the event but I know it is organized by the government. Hopefully, you guys can see for yourself from the pictures which I have taken.

And the event has caused massive jam because all the CHINESE especially, cannot tahan, but to stop and take the free stuff!

Overrated

~Betch

I just gotta lay it out here that decisions are overrated. They are. Really, a lot of people go "making decisions make you a decisive person..." and yes, I agree... however, the decisions of which they speak of are the kind that isn't long-term. It's something that's in the now. I'm not speaking about jobs or choices of meal or clothing... It's more to do with decisions like your education, your future (marriage, kids, etc..), financial standing, job specialisation... It's good to have an idea but nothing is ever fixed. Something always comes along and changes things up to challenge or bless you. It's a very scary thing if you break it down piece by piece.

So from that, I thought... it's rather quite pointless for one to worry and fear then, no? I mean, there isn't much you can do but to live for the time being.. to do what has and needs to be done, and deal with whatever that comes up next in life. But that's always been how life was designed to be, no? Unpredictable and undefinable by no one but God...

But if you believe in a higher power, such as God, I think we have nothing to fear as a whole. Death is nothing compared to what could be in store for you. Death is merely going to sleep and waking up in another room, although I can't guarantee the physical state of being you might be in at the time of death, so there could be pain, but only temporarily. DISCLAIMER: I don't minimise people's sufferings of diseases, famine, illnesses of any kind across the world. It's a general opinion.

So, waste no time in fearing and worrying... instead, as corny as this sounds, always love and care unfailingly... It sounds so sappy and nauseating, I know, but if you realise, it's one of the absolute truths that never fails anybody. It's both a blessing to love and be loved. 

Matthew 6:34  “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."