Happy Merdeka!!!!

Hi guys! Happy Merdeka! Actually, my initial purpose of putting up this post had nothing to do with Merdeka at all. However, I decided otherwise because I didn't want the title of this post to be the same repetitive stuff I use. Anyway, I'm blogging from one of the PCs in the library now (I just used up 1.5 of my 2 hour wifi limit using my mac). I wanted to remind you guys that the deadline for the trip is this monday, 1st September. I need at least 4 names of people who have confirmed that they will go. You can email me to confirm. Email me at my hotmail accout rav_kid1. I will speak to some of the major contributors to the idea of this trip next before calling it off. Okay, just to remind everyone. The trip (if it translates into reality) will take place somewhere in between the 1st to the 3rd week of December 2008. It will last for 1 week and cost us RM 1200. So please decide now. As for me, I can go. There I said it. However, my decision is dependent on whether you guys want to carry on with the plan.

Okay, on another matter. I'm sad to hear that Spartacus got into a pickle. This may have serious implications on our trip. Spartacus, I hope that you are already gotten over what happened. I too was involved in s car accident last week. I was in a taxi and someone hit us from behind. Luckily, the taxi driver didn't crash our car into the car in front of us. I now know the effect inertia can have on cars. Hehe, somemore it was the first time that I took a taxi in KL all by myself. So soi. That was when I took a taxi to KL Sentral. On my return from KL Sentral, I nearly got into another accident. It was raining and the roads were slippery. The driver went up a flyover and couldn't see that one half of the road was closed as a BMW had just crash into the left lane on the road. The closed the lane because the were scared that people would skid off the road and crash and fall from the fylover. The taxi driver breaked, the car skidded and the tires made that drifting noise. Geez. Talk about me and bad luck. I bring bad luck to the driver. What's up with taxis these days anyway.

I guess I'll have to use public transport. But wait, these days public transport is getting extremely unreliable and the quality of service is declining. Damned monopolies by GLCS. Yea, sue me, even Pak Cik Lah will testify for me. The fuel prices have gone up, so to cut costs, these smart fellows reduce the ammount of trips instead of increasing the price of tickets. The result: less trains, more people in trains (spurred by the large number of people taking public transportation and less train journeys). It's so damn hard to catch a train on weekends nowadays. The trains get so overcroweded that people have to wait for 2 trains to pass by before getting on a train. This happened to me on last Sunday. I went to Midvalley. I wanted to take a taxi back about 5 pm in the afternoon and what do you know, there's a hundred people waiting in front of me, literally. So, I resort to the KTM line to KL sentral. When I get down to the platform, what do ya know, there's two hundred people in front of me. When the train arrives, hardly anyone gets down because they want to go to KL Sentral. Then, an announcement is made saying that the next train is canceled. Hahaha. I laughed to myself. It was then that I realised that I had to face the harsh reality that we live in Malaysia where companies can just so easily say sorry to you for canceling the train even though you here this virtually everyday. There's no end to it.

The problem with Malaysian companies are, the have a product that they steal from another country, but that's as far as it goes. They provide you with these products, but it remains stagnant. Nothing changes. There are no improvements to the products because us Malaysians don't have the smarts to manipulate, create, improve and innovate. It's just like the Angkasawan project. You see, we can't build a rocket becos we are not smart enough. So we import the technology and the we can only use it to get the same results. We can't configure the rocket, to say, go faster or become more fuel efficient. Then, when something new comes into the market, we buy the new thing. Our old rocket can just be trhown away. We are consumers, not producers. Furthermore, living in a THIRD WORLD stagnant country where capitalistic companies who try to immitate other successful forign companies lack ethics and don't feel any responsibility to their customers. In fact, they have the option to choose whether or no they want to improve their services. Which is why they don't mind saying sorry a thousand times and not doing anything to improve their services. Their sorry means nothing to me as it is not sincere. It is just to be polite only. I bet these companies don't do anything because they think of you as a burden. I mean why would they like all of you? You guys just want to get the best possible train ride out of your measely RM 2? You burden them because you ask to much for so little money. This is why Malaysian companies fail. It is because the have these negative thoughts. Plus, the government backs them heavily and make them GLCS so they will have monopolies over a their given fields. Why on Earth should these companies even want to think of preaching social corporate responsibility? In my opinion, social corporate responsibility means being responsible to the people and isn't giving them more than what they bargain for a much better way of showing that they care and want to be responsible for their customers' needs rather than givng millions of dollars to Sudan or Lebanon. Malaysian companies can choose to live in their own world and not acknowledge the fact that people want more for less. They just don't get this, they don't understand customers, they are out of touch with the people. Public transport suck. Which leads me to my next point.

You guys may have thought that I bought an Apple becos I am rich. But the fact is I bought a Mac becos it is so much more than a computer. They don't stop at "Oh, this is a computer, let's sell it". To them a computer is so much more. It's an understanding. It's their passion and they are proud of what they make which it why they want you to get the most out of your computer so that you will understand how happy they were, how much satisfaction they gained becos of the computer. I love comouters and Macs made me appreciate them even more. Paying that RM 4299 for the Mac was robbery on my part. I roobed Mac becos they are giving me so damn much more that it exceeds this thing called the benchmark or 'standard'. You see unlike our Malaysian companies, you are not a burden to them. They do not get tired with you. They always want to give you their best. Just imagine that you were in love with this hot girl. You'd wanna be at your best for her rite? And like wise you'd feel flattered or satisfied if she wanted to be her best for you. It's the same thing with Apple. They want to be the best for you. They give it their all. I honestly belief that Apple computer programmers feel happy everytime you use one of their applications is used to their fullest extent. This is what I call a business. They give you everything and you get so much more that the money you paid seem so little. The Apple people usderstand what thei customer wants. They don't sell you a Basic, Premium, Ultimate, Business version of Mac OS X Leopard. To them, it's why would you want to give your customer less? Why can't you just give them the best of everything? Think about it. Why should you have to buy a software for a particular purpose say work or for simple home use. Why can't you just buy want one which is good at everything? It's again like a girl. Why should you have to choose between a hot girl? or a nice girl? or a smart girl?or a girl for sex? Why can't you get all in one? Huh, why can't you? At Apple, they want you to get the best. Macs are brilliant. They are better than any computers in every way. Buy one if you get the chance to. I did and I have never complained nor have I ever strayed away from my Mac. It's Mac for me forever man! You may think that money limits you. Well save up. Buying one in 6 years is much better than buying 2 normal laptops every 3 years. Macintosh may be expensive here in Malaysia. But the prices in the US aren't that bad actually. It's expensive in Malaysia because Apple hasn't set up in Malaysia. But I doubt that they would. Remember, Mac is derived from Macintosh. They named the computer Macintosh after the apple because the apple was cheap and available everywhere in the US.

That's all for now. Happy Independence Day!