The taste is good but the smell is not.

In local newspaper report, we find that there are irresponsible traders who imitated Musang King type of durians and sold other species of durians to many continents (esp. China), claiming them as Musang King, at expensive price.

How many types of durians and species of the same kind of durians are there in existence? The fact that durians are only consumed by those who like the fruits cannot be taken as a pivotal factor for its production and consumption, because durians can still be consumed and sold even in their stale character. 

I would like to relate the above two paragraphs concerning the sales of Musang King durians to China. There are efforts being done by Malaysian government to stabilise both the price and authenticity of the durians as if there are no other fruits or agricultural products that can wean off the taste of durian species to the China market. I am very cynical about this because there are so many products besides food and electronic chips craved by Malaysian manufacturers and consumers the Chinese counterparts fail to oversee the merchantability and durability of the products sold to Malaysian counterparts. What puzzles me the most is the fact that there are a few ships carrying on business selling fake Musang King durians perhaps not in Spartley Islands or Pulau Batu Putih, arguably. If these ships are to be analysed, not only the durians are a copycat of the best quality durians, but the origin of the fruits can be tracked from that of our neighbouring country which has more populations in its Capital City; nothing can stop people from murmuring the city in their heart because the traffic congestion in that city is of course an obstacle if the durians are supposed to be transported to capital city of China by land. 

I can't imagine what is being said by local officials from Malaysia and China when they are formulating the best solution to avoid price drop of that durian clones; hampers my opinion to suggest that the banking systems of both countries are incompatible in its bankability, sustainability and "taste" as well.

Honestly speaking, we will enjoy eating the durians more in a private jet (for those who like them), and for those who dislike durians, they will aboard another jets just to get fresh air. 

P/S: Inflation levels in ASEAN countries are very minute as compared to South American and some African countries. But there are still people selling fake iPhones and chips to get more money. 

PERGI TAK DISURUH, DATANG TAK DIUNDANG (Incomplete Address)

Great adventure it seems to be that we are so fortunate to become guests of spectacular wedding events of our beloved friends and family members. Some events are well-planned with glamorous persona of the ceremonies the way status quo of the hosts dictate.

Some guests have got prestigious addresses where the invitation can reach the invitees. Sometimes, the addresses are incomplete (in Malay "alamat tak lengkap") and that means it is not approved as an invitation (in Malay term "tak lulus").

Even when the guests are long-lasting or long-time-enough friends of the hosts, the incomplete addresses must not be seen as a complete invitation; as many V.I.Ps such as high ranking bankers (banking or credit or even loan sharks eventually) and investors who are so adamant to have their guests' addresses complete to such an extent they have to make hundreds of calls to the same telephone numbers per day, just to ensure that the addresses are complete in their definition and sights.

How many of your beloved lecturers for example are geared to remember to invite you for their wedding ceremonies? One way loved by students is very common as far as incomplete addresses are concerned (or to whom it may be concerned, rather). Does it mean that the lecturers are obstinate and not dedicated towards their (beloved?) students? They can always choose whom they might invite, can't they?

I have a few previous lecturers I love(d) the most. But when it comes to their wedding invitations, they kept mum. Luckily they never revealed their addresses were incomplete. Do you still believe in true love? You'll be lucky enough if your previous lecturer(s) love you. Still, you need to verify whether their addresses are complete hitherto.

In any wedding, sometimes unknown people may become ad hoc bankers. Ironically, even when the addresses are not specifically complete, loans are still being disbursed without any telephone call verifications. Some of them are extremely annoying bankers, as always.

The above doesn't leave a bad remark to these species of ad hoc bankers  but it seems very weird when regular / legitimate bankers suddenly lost contact with their clients due to incomplete addresses.

To be honest, it is not advisable to find true love in bankers or via banking systems, obviously. Even so, they will continuously reject you if you do not provide for complete addresses. 

There are occasions when some people will never invite you to their wedding ceremonies due to some constraints, namely geographical location factors, descendants, or maybe sheer "out-of-clan" or "out-of-state" lineage, so you are not welcomed officially.

Nobody cares if you are not somebody of importance, name or fame. Your presence is just ordinary and your absence is also just like a 'sheer curtain'. Nobody will cry if you are not there.

There you go, true love is not in existence, until you find yourself crying for something that touches your feeling and logical understanding on why the person you invite is not around or not even step his foot on your ground. 

Being close to the people you admire the most is just good enough if you feel you are invited. Perhaps you are not special to them. You must accept the fact that you are not above their standards in their receptions.

Obviously, it is not easy to be present in a wedding ceremony when your addresses are incomplete.

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Below is a poem in Malay Language specially written for someone I admire the most, and perhaps my address is incomplete that I may not be able to be present in their ceremony today.

Inginku lukis wajah manismu

Menyinar bak suria dirimu

Hembusan syahdu mengubat rindu

Di dalam suara merdu buluh perindu

Menatap wajah itu - kaku

Ingin berdiri tiada tersedu

Kau kukasihi si tenang ku rindu

Terima seadanya bak pemburu

Mungkin kau sedar aku di sini

Membawa maksud kendiri hati

Persis mutiara bersinar sendiri

Sekelam sedalam lautan diri

Berputar seni halusnya maya

Memegang bertali terikat daya

Hanya makrifat cinta Pencipta

Memberi rasa seluas angkasa.

Obstinate - Will a lecturer or banker love an obstinate student? Perhaps your addresses might be incomplete if he/she really loves you. He/she will be crying for more than two months because they will never call you, even when your addresses are complete.

Please do not call me again (as the address is incomplete).

P/S: As my phone is cracked and not functioning well, I can't attach a picture here. Even the picture I need to attach here will make my secret admirers or haters eager to hack, without fail. 

Luka di jari dapat dilihat, luka di hati tiada siapa yang tahu.

The above proverb is so special that nobody can explain empirically the quantitative exposure of the risk when you are visiting a clinic or hospital for medical treatment. 

Being a doctor is a bless. Being a patient is so sad. But how can you be sad of being a doctor who never meet your beloved patients who need to see you. Well, enough is enough when you have nurses and paramadics so to speak. 

Small injury can be treated by not seeing anyone. But deep in the heart, people will resent to become doctors when their patients are so invisible or virtual to such an extent the doctors have got to become hackers for the rest of their live to trace their patient(s) who never understand what is so special of being a doctor. To heal or to make generalisation that their income is based on how many patients they can treat per day and whether their patients are hurt in the heart (luka di hati) or otherwise.

Reciprocal as it seems to be the treatment that even doctors are in need of medical and spiritual assistance. They don't need anyone else to add to their burdens of treating patients. Are they super-humans? When money counts, not even a RM1.00 receipt can quench their thirst to say thank you to their patient(s) who are truly hurt in the heart. 

Therefore, "luka di jari dapat dilihat, luka di hati tiada siapa yang tahu" is another thesis statement that will never be finished when some students in Medic are just thinking about money and how they are able to make money in their profession. Doctors are not supposed to think about money all the time, are they? Or perhaps one day money cannot buy thesis statements for them to become general practitioners.

Again, luka di hati tiada siapa yang tahu. 

Glorified for being indebted handsomely.

Internet should be made easy and accessible to all.

Nothing can change the fact that people are taught to crave and pay for getting internet at all times. But the tendency to have extra data in hand is in favour of post-paid customers as compared to prepaid clients who need to top up and top up and they get less data than the former.

So, if you are good in managing debts (post-paid) then you are good clients and glorified. If you are prepaid clients, you are motivated to be indebted and must move to post-paid plans in order to get more data.

But nothing can make customers happy when their phones are hacked via Whatsapp applications or any other built-in programmes.

Mahal rantai dari beruk

Perhaps, being rich is about to sell cheap for example cars or car components. The car industry is a catalyst (pivotal) to developing greater economic growth by the multiplying effects arising therefrom (which include banking and insurance and  perhaps MLM and forex investment schemes).

Sometimes being cynical is a bait (pro bono) when people are craving for money more than to have cheap and high quality cars and engines. 

Be it as it may, it is in the drive that people would choose the best cars for themselves. But the image as portrayed by owning and driving the cars are unspeakable by the novice (commoners) and in business terms, it is not in the class (by people with names and fames).

Being too cynical is not too sarcastic. However, by asking for cheap and quality cars to be driven on the road is like asking the banks to re-possess all the cars as if the banks and their CEOs are in famine state as compared to their suffering clients.

Is there any such thing as to bail out dying bank(s) and put the prospective clients at risk?

The above proverb is not a car component, is it?

I hate you sometimes

I don't really get it when Proton management cannot accept the fact that their cars are categorised as 5th choice even when they make a survey to the general mass on preferred cars by the young and elderly people.

Tun M has made it clear in his blog that Proton was his brainchild and he has lost his child. Recently he compared foreign car engines with those found in Japan and Korea. In that blog he says it is better to sell the dignity than to sell Proton (my translation).

Look, even if you have billions of Pound Sterling in your bank account, would you buy a Saga and a Prèvè? For sure your first choice is the Beemers and Ferraris or Lamborghinis and suchlike.

So Proton needs to capture the high-end​ market not so much to compete with the established car brands but to show that their cars are superb in various ways.

I am not going to talk about cars anymore because some people will suffer from migraine for 2 weeks thinking how to adjust salespeople's commission either to be paid by car dealers or by banks.

Now you can see clearly why customers are demanding quality and cheaper cars more than nationalistic pride attached to the cars so to speak. You don't want​ to drive a car and then you are being asked to pay tolls, donation, MLM schemes and worst still, you are being invited to join rich-quick schemes.

Now whose brainchilds are those tolls? Oooppps.

Perigi Mencari Timba

The above proverb has made things gone hay-wire to lives of many people if it is to be pronounced by academicians or professionals even in its literal or face value meanings of the phrase. Care must be taken when non-professionals or people who do not have any qualification in the entire universe to utter the phrase let alone to write it in a piece of paper or typed in a computer screen. 

The Malay proverb is full of deep in meaning phrases and nobody will really understand the reflection of the reality based on the proverb itself, rather elusive than the representation of the reality based on the people who heard or received or even read the phrase uttered upon them (even if the phrase is not meant for them at all).

Foreigners or better known as non-Malay speaking people or people who speak Malay Language as their 2nd.........n-th language or the Malays who speak Malay Language as their mother tongue but do not properly taking care of the above phrase wisely; worse, using it daily as their thinking language : those categories of people should never use the above proverb entirely due to its distrastrous effect(s) should the phrase is to be spoken or dictated to anybody either men or women.

Many people do not really care to speak to the right people when they apply to further their studies in universities or colleges.There are so many advertisements in local and foreign newspapers promoting many universities and colleges in different fields of studies. These learning institutions are making huge investments in marketing their premises to prospective clients and they need instant enrolment from the fresh students after they finished their higher secondary exams (you name them) without regard to their English or Malay Language proficiency levels.

Many of the sponsors (such as banks, NGOs, GLCs etc) are eyeing for the best talents as their reserves (forget about non-appropriated profits or surpluses in their balance sheets) so that 
they are fully secured to have a continuous sources of human banks (resources) to make their organisations or establishments in vivo.

Perfect number of students' enrolments are good money for them. Let's say 500 prospects are to be registered as students for a particular programme or qualification for a period of 5 years. You may use your hunches to see the final percentage of these students who would obtain their scrolls after 5 years. If you are brave enough to be an external auditor for those universities or colleges, you can find a surprising fact that all of them would get their scrolls.

Kindly do not try to analyse what are in their scrolls because if the above Malay proverb is to be uttered to you, disastrous effects might set in. Care must be taken when you are dealing with Doctors or Professors (who are so much avoided due their physical and intellectual well-being) so as to prevent you from being too sarcastic or bombastic in your thesis statements, and hence your persona in their eyes. 

Education is an investment to many developing countries and even to developed countries. One University in recent years, has stated the fact that students are not supposed to be barred in continuing their studies even if they are caught up with financial restraints and situations where they unable to study (in whatever circumstances) surrounding them.

Well, it is a rhetoric as it seems to be because the more you analyse the products (graduates) from many universities and colleges, the more you will find that you need more money for yourself exceeding the money needed by a Senator or President of an NGO (which gives free cookies and cakes for charities or even to the-wives-of nobody-knows-how-to-address-them during festivities). You are not supposed to utter the above Malay proverb if you are to deal with them, indefinitely.

The more scary it will become, when you are to ask the offices of those universities and colleges about your examination results or studentship status. It is a phenomenon of an eclipse of full moon occurring when you are perceived as a nuisance when you are trying to ask about your outstanding balances (owed to the universities) and some of the universities or colleges would bar you from viewing your results and CGPA or even to check your marks if you are indebted to them in the respective semesters of studies.

If you are too demanding, you will always be barred to such an extent that you are deemed as a total nuisance and hindrance due to your status; not a status as a student, but a status referred to as "indebted to the University".

Worse, if you are trying to ask them for extra monetary aids, you might feel as if you are not welcomed at all. A distinct treatment you get from the first time you enrolled for registration. You are perceived as an enemy who needs to be destroyed when you are asking or calling them in the offices.

This is where the phrase "No money no talk" appears to be reflected in our local university systems. The shift from being the prospect for graduation to prospect for holding grudge will make you feel uneasy to study in the universities or colleges even if you have the best high ranking (not rank and file lower subordinates kind of people) chancellors or lecturers presiding therein. Nobody cares about this feeling when you are being treated as a nuisance in those universities or colleges.

I do not need to write further about the above proverb because it will make many people to suffer from sleepless nights for more than 2 months if they take the above proverb seriously.

We live in a situation of uncertainty starting from early tertiary level of education system. For those who find the above as too obscure may always re-read my previous articles about rich and poor universities.

I do not want to be an enemy to the local and international universities and colleges, surpassing the effects of the above Malay proverb subsequently.

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Pathetic Smartphone as it is

• Have you met bunches of people who are so eager to see what kind of smartphone you are using during your meeting with them? Some of them really need to see and touch your smartphone as though the smartphone belongs to them and these species of people are so adamant to have the one that you hold because it is an iPhone 7 or high-end market kind of smartphone as such. 

• What has become an addiction to possess such smartphone(s) is in actual fact that; they want to have the one that you are holding. The very smartphone that you are holding. I don't have to bold the phrase "the very smartphone you are holding" because there are people out there, who are actively searching for those gadgets and they really want to have them with cheap prices or even free. Psychologically speaking, whenever they meet you, they want your smartphone that you are holding. Is it pathetic as it seems to be?

• To make things worse, there are people who sell clone phones in the mainstream market and nobody cares when clients are crying because they are being scammed buying those clone phones and the functions of the smartphones are so pathetic too. Very scary indeed when those smartphones are being sold in developed countries and developing countries hitherto.

• The nightmare sometimes can be revealed via Instagram and FB when people are so obsessed to make their purchase of iPhone 7 or suchlike phones online for public viewing. For those who have experienced being charmed or possessed by those folks who use black magic or psychologically influenced techniques (not a type of influenza of course), they are successful in hijacking those phones from their hands. What kind of degree or PhD fields of study to explain these circumstances? 

• Some people will hold their Iphones and other gadgets so that those are safe in their hands. But in actual fact, those people who are very professional in snatching those gadgets from their hands need those smartphones and gadgets to be close to their hands before they are being snatched away, permanently.

• What a scary and pathetic brand of smartphones are you talking about?

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