Aku harap kamu semua bergembira disamping keluarga tercinta.

Me? Not in the mood to celebrate. Makan ok, ada rendang ayam, ada sup daging, aku bedal aje … but I was thinking about the people of Bukit Antarabangsa. I am sure they cant sleep, thinking about their properties and also what to do next, as the future looks bleak for them.

Luckily my sister’s house was not affected, but her condo she’s in the process to buy is affected. I hope she will cancel it. Talk to your lawyers and cancel it, better loose some money now than loose everything later. You can read her side of the bukit antarabangsa landslide tragedy story here.

Anyway, I am surprised to read this when i was going through the landslide news of Bukit Antarabangsa.

Now is not the time.

image? stolen

A lot of people complained offline and also online. Most of the bloggers I know said that he should not have made a drastic decision like that. The 40 per cent increase will definitely bring hardship as the price of goods will go up. If there’s no other choice, he should have raised it at a smaller rate gradually. Then he announced that a RM625 rebate will be given per year to owners of cars of 2000cc and below to offset the increase.

If he had listened, he wont need to pay the RM625 until next year.
If he had listened, he wont have problem to bring down the prices of other goods now.

The only reason I can think of is that he dozed off while the rest of Malaysia is complaining.

But now, there’s another problem with the fuel price. About 3 – 4 years ago, we were only paying RM1.52 when the price is about USD50. Now it is about USD48, why should we pay RM1.92? And what about the prices of lubricants. They did not go down at all. WTF?

Update 20081206 12.10PM : I am quoting this from The Star

At this level, the market price for RON 97 grade petrol should be about RM1.30 per litre, which is 60 sen lower than the RM1.90 per litre Malaysians are currently paying, the analysts said.

Based on a consumption estimate of 27.5 million litres per day, this translates to roughly around RM16.5mil in extra revenue a day for the Government.

We are paying more, and they are making money. So, where does the money goes to now?