When People Do Not Know What Is Bad For Them By OutSyed The Box

OutSyed The Box

Monday, February 11, 2019

There is so much crap in this world. There is crap everywhere.
There are many kinds of crap. Two examples are permanent crap and temporary crap.

Temporary crap could be a situation that you got yourself into (a career choice, wrong employer, bad business decision, weak economic condition, wrong choice of life partner, wrong choice of friends, trouble causing family / relatives etc). These things are all 'temporary' in nature - or should be temporary in nature - provided you know how to work your way out. Or you know how to find a solution. In other words solutions exist. That is what I call 'temporary crap'. There is a way out.

My first business venture started 30 years ago. It took off with a bang. Then an anchor tenant where I was located went bust and the business died in that area. I could not move location because I was short of capital. I was also alone - my wife was attending university and was also busy taking care of our young family at that time.

No big deal. Youth was still on my side and I saw what I had to do. I simply plotted my way out. There was a solution and I could see the solution. So I went back to work in banking and stuck with a banking career. But I always had my eye on business. It took us 10 years to reorganise our capital and resources and get into business again. We started our gold jewellery business in 1998 and this time my wife was fully involved. From there we went on to do property plus I also continued with my own corporate career. Then writing books also was an added bonus - which I did not expect. Now youth is not on my side but there are still plenty of things to do. Plus you can be Prime Minister at age 93.

Ok lets get back to talking about crap again. Permanent crap is also about the same as that list of temporary crap I have mentioned above. However you must add religion to permanent crap. In my personal view religion is satanic. Ajaran syaitan par excellence. But permanent crap becomes permanent crap ONLY when YOU (yes I am referring to you) do not know HOW to get yourself out of the permanent crap.

Your situation (yes I am referring to you again) becomes worse - becomes entombed in crap as hard as concrete - when

a. you do NOT KNOW that you are stuck in permanent crap
b. when you think that the permanent crap that you are stuck in is your god's gift to you.

You are actually in very deep shit. That is being stuck in real permanent crap with no way of you being able to crawl out of this crappy situation.

It is conventional wisdom that 'the customer knows best'. I do not agree with this at all. The customer rarely knows what is best or even what is good for them. If you do not believe me just count ALL THOSE things that you bought that :

1. you really do not need, they are just lying around your house
2. do not work or do not produce the results that you thought they would. (I bought a motorised tiller - to break up the soil in our garden, but our soil is clay soil and hard as concrete. The motorised tiller just bounces off the hard clay. Never mind we can use it on our compost heap - to toss it over.)

So the customer (or consumer) rarely knows best. This is my view. A good product becomes successful because the inventor, manufacturer or engineer just happened to hit on the right design or right recipe and taste.

In the same way, to justify a democracy the saying goes that 'the voters always know best'. This is a highly disputable statement. What the voter thinks is best for them may not even be good at all for humanity. It could even be evil (meaning really bad).

The voter will only know best if

1. the voter is sufficiently educated to think critically and logically
2. is not frightened by 'negative repercussions'
3. does not believe in black magic
4. does not believe in hocus pocus religion
5. does not believe in satanic religion
6. is not swayed too much by racial and religious prejudices

Can you find such a voter in Malaysia ? There are not enough of such voters. So the voters actually do not know what is best for them.

This is where we need absolutely good and capable leadership. Those with fake degrees and others who support or defend people with fake degrees are just not leaders. They are just fools.

We need leadership that has good principles and good moral values that are universal. One example of a good moral value is to know that faking a university degree or defending a fake university degree is an immoral thing to do.

If you are still confused about this very simple point, on top of your beliefs in superstition, blackmagic and satanic religion - then you are just a vampire that has escaped from hell. Sadly there are many of you in this country and in this world.

While poor Buffy is just one person.





This walkabout was triggered by a comment in the earlier post :

Anonymous said...

"With a systematic agenda that is pro-rakyat" ... “reform”?

Let's not talk about "reform" to gain rural Malay votes. It won’t work. They don't understand what reform is all about. They will vote for you if they are fed with money. The super moron was doing this. It’s still “money talks” to many of these folks.

Umno and PAS can forget Sabah and Sarawak.

Be smart in politics. For PH to win big, re-delineate the electoral boundaries. This must be done before the next GE. MUST. Many of the constituencies are presently disproportionately represented. Tony Pua has over 150 000 voters in his constituency (split into 3 or 4). There are constituencies having less than 30 000 voters to favour BN before the GE14. This is just absurd.

Monday, February 11, 2019 12:17:00 PM

Note this point : They don't understand what reform is all about.

I think this is a prime example of being in a "permanent crap" situation. They do not even know they are stuck in the crap.

In an earlier post where I complained (again and again as I have been doing since 1995 or earlier) that we are paying three or four times the world market prices for cars. Meaning that is NOT A GOOD thing to do.

One commenter said that lowering the prices of cars would only increase the number of cars on the roads. The commenter was obviously happy or not concerned that Malaysians are paying three or four times the world market prices for their cars and vehicles. These are the people in that permanent crap situation. They cannot even begin to understand that they are in permanent crap.

Paying market prices for cars and vehicles will NOT increase the number of cars on the roads. A husband and wife living in an apartment with just one parking spot are not going to buy a second or third or fourth car just because car prices are more realistic and reasonable. They will have to pay extra road tax, pay extra for service, maintenance, car wash etc for the extra cars. They will still make do with just one car. The difference is that for the same amount of money they have been forced to pay they will now own a bigger, better quality and safer car. Instead of paying RM1000 per month for a tin can, they can now own an Accord or a lower end Mercedes Benz. That is the difference.

Cik Minah who runs her nasi lemak stall from the back of her Nissan Vanette is not going to buy TWO or THREE more Nissan Vanettes just because the prices of Nissan Vanettes have come down. She still needs only ONE Nissan Vanette to run her nasi lemak business. But a cheaper Nissan Vanette means that Cik Minah pays less monthly instalment and therefore she can now save more money and use the extra savings to put down a deposit for that medium cost apartment that is now only affordable to many Chinese and other non Malays.

Boleh faham ke brader? Why are you folks so dumb?

The other example is the Bernas monopoly on rice. This has caused the price of rice to be so high in Malaysia. As I said before even that poor quality 20% or so broken rice is selling for almost RM3.00 per kilo. As I have said I have seen Chinese people buy this low quality rice and cook it (with pet food) and feed it to dogs. (This was at an animal shelter where we went to tolong sikit.)

But this is the same low quality rice that is being bought and eaten by the Malay people.

Now if you remove the Bernas monopoly on rice and open up the rice market to full competition, then it is most likely that the poor people, including many Malay people (who can still only afford to pay about RM3 per kilo for rice) will suddenly discover that now their RM3.00 can buy beras wangi Vietnam or beras panjang Thailand !! Or better - who knows.

So even though their income remains the same - meaning they still only have RM3.00 to buy rice - but the difference is that now with the same RM3.00 they do not have to eat "beras kualiti anjing". They can eat a better quality rice. Faham tak brader?

Or, if they still want to buy that low quality 20% broken rice, then they will discover that the price of that low quality 20% broken rice has fallen to reflect its real market value. Maybe that low quality 20% broken rice will now sell at only RM2.00 per kilo. No more RM3.00 per kilo.

So even there the consumer saves money. The money they save can be used to buy other things that they could not buy before - for example a medium cost apartment that previously was only affordable to Chinese and other non Malays.

To make a long story short what I am saying is that YOU (yes you brader) are poor because you are stupid. You do not seem to understand what is good for you.

When you cannot think logically and critically you will not know that you are in a situation of permanent crap.
Syed Akbar Ali at 2:20:00 PM
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AnonymousMonday, February 11, 2019 2:42:00 PM
U fail to mention, other countries can survive with their public transport unlike malaysia everyone needs a car/bike to move around

i think im dumb - nirvana-

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AnonymousMonday, February 11, 2019 3:26:00 PM
Another permanent crap is bahasa melayu mampu jadi bahasa antarabangsa. Because of this crap, generations after generations of anak melayu cannot speak orang putih. Then tokay cina in private sector kena blame for not employing malays. Then gomen gotta take in malays in perkhidmatan awam, now abt 1.6mil orang.

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AnonymousMonday, February 11, 2019 9:50:00 PM
Chinese also terok. Born and raised in Malaysia still cannot speak Melayu ... This is equally bad.

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AnonymousMonday, February 11, 2019 4:44:00 PM
Truthfully we got CRAPPED now that PH turns out to be BN 2.0. PH better clean up its mess or else you will be destined to be a 1 term ruling party. Not voting for BN either but hope other political parties will surface to do the fighting for Malaysians. It's refreshing to see PSM leading the way in filing police report against those who blatantly stripped out Kledang Hill in Ipoh till BOTAK. RULE OF LAW prevails and heads must roll for those found guilty (send them to jail, no ifs or buts). This Malaysia Baru will not tolerate those nonsense that was rampant under BN or PH. Enuf said!!!

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AnonymousMonday, February 11, 2019 4:55:00 PM
Dengan senario politik malaysia hari ni aku pening nak pilih menatang mana satu, satu bekas geng penyamun, satu geng kuat tunggang agama dan satu lagi kuat kencing... Poning den dibuatnyoo...hahahaa...

Apasal pemimpin Islam yang sgt tawaduk duk duk yg tiap hari kutuk Sang Kapir Laknat ..Kapir Harbi ..tapi bermegah dgn kereta buatan kapir spt BMW, Audi, Porshe. Ikut cara X-Agong yang hanya nonggang LADA tangan kedua je .. Jiwa rakyat betul.

MADEY MATI CEPAT BILA MAHATHIR DAH MATI -
SEMUA LANUN SEMUA PEROMPAK SEMUA KAKI RASUAH AKAN BEBAS
pbkg Makin ganas main agama kaum, apa lagi modal, semua penyamun tarbus ulat mau atok mampoih cepat,anak ikan masuk line, semua sandiwara beb, kalau atok lama, semua masuk Kira besi, kah kah kah, Ulat lagi mak darul ular...mesti pakai bmw baru khusyuk, bunyi luar tak masuk, setakat pakai proton hampeh...cermin Tak katup rapat kah kah kag...melayu islang

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sickputMonday, February 11, 2019 5:16:00 PM
I cannot see any reform with dr m in charge. Or say under LGE.the last thing i would do is cancel the gst after najib's extravagance, but that was the first thing they did.so now, finance minister working doubly hard trying to cover the shortfall by introduving msny other taxes .
They shoukd have reduced car taxes instead of gst if pump priming the evonomy is what they wanted.

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AnonymousMonday, February 11, 2019 5:25:00 PM
I agree with you on the beras monopoly. That should be dismantled yesterday. On the car prices, I agree that we should not pay overinflated price. All the crazy excise duties should be abolished yesterday. We Malaysians have suffered long enough just so a few AP Kings can accumulate easy money and become super rich at our expense.

Having said that I disagree that cheaper car price will not result in more cars on the road. Even that Chinese minister said that reduction in the excise/duty rates will not cause Government to lose income bcoz it will be covered by higher volume of car sales. Unless people buy cars just for show and just keep them in the house, higher sales volume means more cars on the road.

Syed, you think like rich people. Of course the rich who already own one car or more will not buy another one just becoz it is cheap (or maybe they will just to show off). Cheaper cars will encourage people who are currently using public transportation or motorbikes to buy cars (new or second hand).

Cheaper cars WILL increase traffic congestion. So my question is what is your solution to that? Build more roads? Improve PT so that people prefers to take PT than driving cars? Introduce petrol tax? Or just wait and see? What?

Let me reiterate just incase you think I disagree with your opinion re prices of cars in Malaysia. I agree that we should pay market prices. Our car prices are ridiculous. Would love to buy a brand new Merc for RM140k.

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Lim Ann Wei PatrickMonday, February 11, 2019 5:30:00 PM
Agreed with Syed 100%.

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AnonymousMonday, February 11, 2019 7:07:00 PM
Ratio Melayu kampung bahlol lebeh ramai lagi dari Melayu bijak pandai. Content suka hati asalkan ada nasi dan ikan kering, TV 3 utk melopong dengar ostat bercelak, surau mesjid dekat,sekolah cekai free, sekolah latihan mintak-sedekah lagi free, motorbike daredevil pillion-rider bersama 8 anak + bini(2). Sat lagi di campakkan BRIM1 kjaan maha murah hati. Beres!! Malaysia syurga ku. Ekonomi negara, keselamatan, masa depan anak cucu bkan masalah aku! Ignorance is bliss. Reti pancut dan rokok antara dua jari 24 jam je.

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AnonymousMonday, February 11, 2019 7:43:00 PM
If you are a big housing developer, building condominiums in Malay areas and not getting other Malaysians wanting to buy in the area like Kerinchi, developers may not get good profit for the their projects. My take as non Malay population keep falling, developers will not build and sell condominiums of RM500,000+ because there is not enough non Malays buying these properties. Building in Malay areas may not generate enough profits to sustain their development projects. We are talking about 10 years from now which is pretty short time.
No developer wants to build and sell cheap properties and to people without purchasing power.
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS SCENARIO.

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AnonymousMonday, February 11, 2019 8:19:00 PM
You have to put your weight/push downwards on the handlebar to enable the tiller to dig in (wet the soil first) n start tilling. If u dont, it wont work on any soil xcept sand but who would want to till sand! This is becoz the tiller has less weight compared to power. Something like power to weight ratio in car, bikes etc. Have been farming at the base of Gunung Datuk 4 a few yrs now. Tanah sawah has clay in it.

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AnonymousMonday, February 11, 2019 9:15:00 PM
Build tall poshy apartments with shitty infrastructure to support it. Roads below and leading into it are narrow and always cramped up with stalls or cars parking like they own the place- some more got samseng indian jaga charging??? Many buildings are just so close to one another you can see whats going on in the bedrooms across!! Haphazard planning and for sure some people in certain sector making big time money out of it. Lost cause!

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AnonymousMonday, February 11, 2019 9:42:00 PM
kita pun sama jugak bahlaol penakut
cakap macam pandai tapi tak mau jadi pemimpin
tm ni dah hilang semangat jati diri tuannya
semua mau cipat tak reti sobar
nak jadi maju konon

pi mPAUIH LA ngAN AMNO BERSATU PKR

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AnonymousMonday, February 11, 2019 9:43:00 PM
"Can you find such a voter in Malaysia ? There are not enough of such voters. "

They were all gerrymandered into ridiculous 6-figure constituencies like Tony Pua's.


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AnonymousMonday, February 11, 2019 10:59:00 PM
i'd rather the govt reduce car price than subsidise fuel.

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parameswaraTuesday, February 12, 2019 1:47:00 AM
Baru dengar berita (ada saya yang baru tau)

Si Adnan Mansor (tada tengku) hantar anak 13 tahun belajar kat Ostrolia. Mak ai. terpekik melolong Bahasa, Jiwa, Bangsa. Kononnye budak budak di malaysia harus belajar semua mata pelajaran dalam Bahasa Malaysia - tapi anak sendiri pergi ostrlai baca dalam bahasa inggeris. Sama seperti geng2 dia kesemua anak2 di hnatar overseas. Pasal nak membodohkan orang sendiri tak mau ajar dalam bahasa inggeris. Poodah Adnan Mansor (tada tengku).

Salam

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