The Office of Fair Trading in UK has imposed some penalties on 13 airlines for their misleading advertisings details especially on the compulsory costs, such as taxes, in the prices they advertised for flights.
Will our Malaysian authorities do the same thing too? AirAsia is one company that, in my own opinion, flouts the law frequently. Their advertised pricing in newpapers are prices before any taxes and fees. Even though the one-way ticket pricing would show RM29 in the advertisement, the final pricing could be around RM72 upon confirmation.
Just flip through the daily newspapers and you'll see various travel agencies putting up so-called discounted air tickets/destinations. But they haven't shown the taxes and fees. That would only be shown when you are confirming the whole package. I'm sure many Malaysian would agree with this.
Well ah...... the Malaysian authorities will act if a big shot was an affected victim OR a big shot brought the matter up, otherwise common people like you and me ...... just bear with and be a smart consumer/buyer.
Tags: Office of Fair Trading, Airlines, Misleading Advertisement, AirAsia, Travel Agencies, Air Ticket
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Creating a CON Folder
An Indian national discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON".
This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... it can't work with Words, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF files.
The whole team in Microsoft, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened. So, tell all your friends.
Try it now, it will not create " CON " Folder.
Try to rename the New Folder as CON or con, it will not accept ............ ........ .......
Tags: Folder, Computer, Con, Microsoft, Technology
This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... it can't work with Words, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF files.
The whole team in Microsoft, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened. So, tell all your friends.
Try it now, it will not create " CON " Folder.
Try to rename the New Folder as CON or con, it will not accept ............ ........ .......
Tags: Folder, Computer, Con, Microsoft, Technology
Futsal Competition
Reached home around 11.30pm after a few futsal games organised by colleagues. We played at the Ampang Sports Planet.
There were 4 teams in Group A and B respectively and my team played the 2nd match of the night (all matches on one futsal court). In the first match, even though I did warm up but still not enough, I actually couldn't lift my feet to run as I wanted to. I had a terrible miss of the night when I could have hit a goal but it went way off to the left.
We have to play within our strength as it was a mixture of 3 girls and 4 guys in one team. The goalie must be a guy with minimum 2 girls on the field. The score ended 0-0 against the Orange Team and the moment I left the court, I really started to sweat.
Though the body was ready to react, the Grey Team (eventual runners-up) was better than us and they beat us by 2-0. Our last game against Green Team was dependable on the match just before us. Grey Team has beaten both Green Team and mine. If they beat Orange Team, then the winner between our last match will go to the semis. But if Orange Team was to win, they would qualify for the semis and our last match would be academic. Both teams then said that we would be play like mad i.e. without a goalie and score plentiful (we targetted 20 goals) to enjoy our academic game...hahaha.
Grey won and we had to play seriously. I scored the winning goal and my team, Blue, proceeded to the semis against the winner of Group B (eventual winners of the competition). We tried to play defensively against Yellow Team but alas, we were off guard for a slight second and they scored the winner with less than a minute to play. It was ok, we laughed, we joked, we teased other colleagues who played badly, we enjoyed our matches and it was fun.
Wondering how will my body react tomorrow...... haven't this aggressively for quite some time. Hopefully the past gym sessions would help.
Tags: Futsal, Football, Ampang, Sports Planet, Sports
There were 4 teams in Group A and B respectively and my team played the 2nd match of the night (all matches on one futsal court). In the first match, even though I did warm up but still not enough, I actually couldn't lift my feet to run as I wanted to. I had a terrible miss of the night when I could have hit a goal but it went way off to the left.
We have to play within our strength as it was a mixture of 3 girls and 4 guys in one team. The goalie must be a guy with minimum 2 girls on the field. The score ended 0-0 against the Orange Team and the moment I left the court, I really started to sweat.
Though the body was ready to react, the Grey Team (eventual runners-up) was better than us and they beat us by 2-0. Our last game against Green Team was dependable on the match just before us. Grey Team has beaten both Green Team and mine. If they beat Orange Team, then the winner between our last match will go to the semis. But if Orange Team was to win, they would qualify for the semis and our last match would be academic. Both teams then said that we would be play like mad i.e. without a goalie and score plentiful (we targetted 20 goals) to enjoy our academic game...hahaha.
Grey won and we had to play seriously. I scored the winning goal and my team, Blue, proceeded to the semis against the winner of Group B (eventual winners of the competition). We tried to play defensively against Yellow Team but alas, we were off guard for a slight second and they scored the winner with less than a minute to play. It was ok, we laughed, we joked, we teased other colleagues who played badly, we enjoyed our matches and it was fun.
Wondering how will my body react tomorrow...... haven't this aggressively for quite some time. Hopefully the past gym sessions would help.
Tags: Futsal, Football, Ampang, Sports Planet, Sports
Friday, August 10, 2007
Foreign Shareholdings in Malaysian Companies
Yet again, another issue about the foreign shareholdings in Malaysian companies. Bureaucracy not related to business, in certain extent, did slow down foreign direct investment in Malaysia.
In certain cases where foreigners wanted to increase their shareholdings in Malaysian companies beyond 49%, such approvals could be only be solved when a ruling states that a company established prior to 21 May 2003 could not have this liberty, is removed.
Different government agencies have different agendas, namely the Foreign Investment Committee and Ministry of International Trade and Industry. How in the world are the foreigners going to set up a business within a short period and thus bringing in foreign investment with the provision of employment opportunities for Malaysians. Malaysia is just not investment friendly compared with Hong Kong and Singapore.
The British Malaysian Chamber of Commerce has to step in in requesting that all Malaysian companies could have a 70% equities held by foreigners while observing a minimum 30% bumiputera equity (another NEP ruling?).
I have a previous contact from France that wanted to set up a food business in Kuala Lumpur. His business was doing well in France and thought of extending his ideas here. After going through so many process which were going at snail's pace and unreasonable requirements, he gave up. He said that although the government promoted foreign direct investment but respective government agencies do not reflect the same ideology at all.
He did say "Why must I give away 30% of my business to someone I do not know?"
This scenario is similar to the ones in the Maybank and freight forwarders cases.
Tags: Business, Politics, Bumiputera Equity, Foreign Equity, Foreign Investment Committee, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, British Malaysian Chamber of Commerce, New Economic Policy, NEP
In certain cases where foreigners wanted to increase their shareholdings in Malaysian companies beyond 49%, such approvals could be only be solved when a ruling states that a company established prior to 21 May 2003 could not have this liberty, is removed.
Different government agencies have different agendas, namely the Foreign Investment Committee and Ministry of International Trade and Industry. How in the world are the foreigners going to set up a business within a short period and thus bringing in foreign investment with the provision of employment opportunities for Malaysians. Malaysia is just not investment friendly compared with Hong Kong and Singapore.
The British Malaysian Chamber of Commerce has to step in in requesting that all Malaysian companies could have a 70% equities held by foreigners while observing a minimum 30% bumiputera equity (another NEP ruling?).
I have a previous contact from France that wanted to set up a food business in Kuala Lumpur. His business was doing well in France and thought of extending his ideas here. After going through so many process which were going at snail's pace and unreasonable requirements, he gave up. He said that although the government promoted foreign direct investment but respective government agencies do not reflect the same ideology at all.
He did say "Why must I give away 30% of my business to someone I do not know?"
This scenario is similar to the ones in the Maybank and freight forwarders cases.
Tags: Business, Politics, Bumiputera Equity, Foreign Equity, Foreign Investment Committee, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, British Malaysian Chamber of Commerce, New Economic Policy, NEP
Updated Skywards Account
On 6 Aug, I blogged about me being Cheated Off in Skywards Miles. To my surprise, I received an email yesterday morning (9 Aug) from Skywards stating that my Skywards account has been updated and all those missing miles have been credited into my account.
Extract of their email to me:-
"We are sorry to learn of your disappointment through your blog spot at Life's Happenings - http://johnny-ong.blogspot.com/ with regards to crediting of flights to your Skywards account."
In the first place, I didn't expect any returns from my blog posting as it was to vent my frustration on a company that kept saying their service is excellent. You mean my blog was so effective and what I have written had reached Skywards office in Dubai and they took immediate action on it. No wonder certain politicians were not happy with those Monkey Bloggers. It seems that blogs are playing a major impact in everyone's life.
Kudos to Skywards for rectifying my account. You'll have gotten the confidence of another customer. Now what else can I blog about???
Tags: Skywards, Blog, Dubai
Extract of their email to me:-
"We are sorry to learn of your disappointment through your blog spot at Life's Happenings - http://johnny-ong.blogspot.com/ with regards to crediting of flights to your Skywards account."
In the first place, I didn't expect any returns from my blog posting as it was to vent my frustration on a company that kept saying their service is excellent. You mean my blog was so effective and what I have written had reached Skywards office in Dubai and they took immediate action on it. No wonder certain politicians were not happy with those Monkey Bloggers. It seems that blogs are playing a major impact in everyone's life.
Kudos to Skywards for rectifying my account. You'll have gotten the confidence of another customer. Now what else can I blog about???
Tags: Skywards, Blog, Dubai
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Horrible Crash at Jln Tun Razak
* Latest update - On Friday, Star newspaper published about this accident. It seems that 3 persons out of 4 in the car died due to the impact. Remaining guy was hospitalised with serious leg injuries. It was a Mercedes S350L and the car belonged to the driver's company - which rents out limousines. The newspaper reported wrongly on the time of the accident as it happened during the wee hours of Thursday morning.
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I left home at about 7.45am this morning and it would be just nice timing with me arriving at the office building around 8.20-8.25am. But it was not to be today.
As I'm a frequent user of the Smart Tunnel, the long queue for the Jalan Tun Razak exit will usually start at the emergency exit no. 7 area (inside the tunnel) but today, the jam started at emergency exit no. 12. That was bad.
Not only my lane but the lane heading towards to Jalan Bukit Bintang was equally bad. At times, vehicles on both lanes stopped literally. This was really unusual. Not long after that, I saw a tow-truck squeezing its way through the traffic at the left side (emergency lane) of the tunnel. Awwwwwwww, no wonder, accident right ahead. By the time I exit the tunnel, I didn't notice any cars or car parts on the road (maybe I was cock-eyed) but the left lane turning to Jln Bukit Bintang was still bad with cars lining up to exit.
I was inside the tunnel for a good 30 minutes. Normally, it would take me 30 minutes to reach office. Now, the Smart Tunnel's operator did mention that if they want to divert certain flood water into the tunnel, they could do it within 10 minutes. 10 minutes - the time required to clear the tunnel from any traffic.
Ok, I was stucked inside the tunnel for 30 minutes and reason was because the traffic at the end of the tunnel was not moving. What if they intend to flood the tunnel and they can't clear the traffic on time as was this morning's situation. My colleague joked about it stating that I didn't read their small terms and conditions. That scenario would have worked if my car was the only car and no traffic jam at the end of the tunnel. True enough.
After going through a snail pace, I got stucked under another short tunnel right below the Jalan Tun Razak/Jalan Bukit Bintang junction (in front of RHB Bank). It was moving centimetre by centimetre. Slowly manouvering my way to the left later on to squeeze into the road heading to Jln Tun Razak/Jalan Ampang junction. The moment I arrived at the Tabung Haji building, traffic was clear all the way. What happened behind me????
Soon, I received an email stating that a horrifying accident happened right in front of the newly occupied Dua Residency condo (2 white buildings in the centre of the picture). A high-end Mercedes actually smacked right into a tree before flinging itself onto Dua Residency's security post at the entrance. 
A colleague who passed by the building at 6.15am had already noticed the place of accident but the police only came to remove the car at around 8am.
Some colleagues only managed to come into office after 9am due to that. The Smart Tunnel was also closed to traffic after I have entered it as a colleague of mine was turned away at a later time.
Tags: Dua Residency, Jalan Tun Razak, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Smart Tunnel, Mercedes, Accident
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I left home at about 7.45am this morning and it would be just nice timing with me arriving at the office building around 8.20-8.25am. But it was not to be today.
As I'm a frequent user of the Smart Tunnel, the long queue for the Jalan Tun Razak exit will usually start at the emergency exit no. 7 area (inside the tunnel) but today, the jam started at emergency exit no. 12. That was bad.
Not only my lane but the lane heading towards to Jalan Bukit Bintang was equally bad. At times, vehicles on both lanes stopped literally. This was really unusual. Not long after that, I saw a tow-truck squeezing its way through the traffic at the left side (emergency lane) of the tunnel. Awwwwwwww, no wonder, accident right ahead. By the time I exit the tunnel, I didn't notice any cars or car parts on the road (maybe I was cock-eyed) but the left lane turning to Jln Bukit Bintang was still bad with cars lining up to exit.
I was inside the tunnel for a good 30 minutes. Normally, it would take me 30 minutes to reach office. Now, the Smart Tunnel's operator did mention that if they want to divert certain flood water into the tunnel, they could do it within 10 minutes. 10 minutes - the time required to clear the tunnel from any traffic.
Ok, I was stucked inside the tunnel for 30 minutes and reason was because the traffic at the end of the tunnel was not moving. What if they intend to flood the tunnel and they can't clear the traffic on time as was this morning's situation. My colleague joked about it stating that I didn't read their small terms and conditions. That scenario would have worked if my car was the only car and no traffic jam at the end of the tunnel. True enough.
After going through a snail pace, I got stucked under another short tunnel right below the Jalan Tun Razak/Jalan Bukit Bintang junction (in front of RHB Bank). It was moving centimetre by centimetre. Slowly manouvering my way to the left later on to squeeze into the road heading to Jln Tun Razak/Jalan Ampang junction. The moment I arrived at the Tabung Haji building, traffic was clear all the way. What happened behind me????
Soon, I received an email stating that a horrifying accident happened right in front of the newly occupied Dua Residency condo (2 white buildings in the centre of the picture). A high-end Mercedes actually smacked right into a tree before flinging itself onto Dua Residency's security post at the entrance. 
A colleague who passed by the building at 6.15am had already noticed the place of accident but the police only came to remove the car at around 8am.
Some colleagues only managed to come into office after 9am due to that. The Smart Tunnel was also closed to traffic after I have entered it as a colleague of mine was turned away at a later time.
Tags: Dua Residency, Jalan Tun Razak, Jalan Bukit Bintang, Smart Tunnel, Mercedes, AccidentHow Rich Are You Today?
I'm sure many readers have known that the World's Richest Person has changed hands where Mexican Carlos Slim has overtaken American Bill Gates.
Listing for multi-millionaires and billionaires are being published annually to record the rich people's monies and assets.
But what about people like you and me? Where do you stand in the listing?
For once, you can find out. Goto Global Rich List and key in your annual income (choose your currency) and then click 'Show me the money!' button and you'll see your world ranking soon and in which top percentage too!
Tags: Global Rich List, Millionaires, Billionaires, Rich, Bill Gates, Carlos Slim
Listing for multi-millionaires and billionaires are being published annually to record the rich people's monies and assets.
But what about people like you and me? Where do you stand in the listing?For once, you can find out. Goto Global Rich List and key in your annual income (choose your currency) and then click 'Show me the money!' button and you'll see your world ranking soon and in which top percentage too!
Tags: Global Rich List, Millionaires, Billionaires, Rich, Bill Gates, Carlos Slim
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