RECESSION A TIME TO PONDER

From my last visit to the bank I can scent this air of uncertainty in the monetary institutions, as regards to measures in minimizing their risks against the invasion of the global recession esp. the foreign banks. Some of course had declared their losses and undergoing the process of bailing out by their respective governments and some are still waiting, but for sure there will be no escape from this global financial phenomena.The bulks of problems now would of course be born by the American and western banks as the recession started there,and the impacts on Asian institution will be very much determined by the volume of their business dependence on them.But for sure in the end there will be a scape goat who will take most of these burden.Would it be Asia or Latin America....as it is now there is no certainty.All financial institutions seemed to be looking for avenues of self fending.As everyone knows banking operation is working on trust and confidence, may be all these meetings are behind locked doors . But as logic goes, not all are loosing money...there are opportunists who are making money, lots of money.These money makers should be expected from the very rich.At times like this sentiments will speak louder than fundamentals.

Its also difficult time for the financial analysts.Its difficult either to believe or not to believe the financial charts that go very volatile.The fast appreciating value of certain currency can a manipulation or traps.The currency market remains very much uncertain.


For investors, may be it is wiser to wait and see.

Me...neither economist nor financial analyst. Just observer from a street window.

MONEY GROWS ON TREES

Bird talk:this is about ,birds of same feather flock together.



The sky is dark with birds flocking back to the city for leadership struggle.The battle of the most powerful birds.The competition would be cruel and fierce.A small mistake will end up a bird clawed to death.The killing among them had begun.There is no option for failure.Some of the most aggressive and the blackest been hung to death.The battle of birds goes on.The bird watcher was waiting for an answer ...whats the commotion about....It seems the birds of the darker feather is controlling...most of them...at the end it would be the battle of birds of the same feather.

The bird watcher didn't wait to see the end of the birds drama cause the children are waiting for nasi lemak.He knows the winners would be birds of same feather too and for sure would flock back together...and he remembers some people says.... money grows on trees,may be the struggle of these birds is to control this money trees.


Back home there is this kampong bird ...flying 500 trees a day looking for this fluid(called latex)....just to feed his hungry chicks at home...life is hard sometimes..


As always the winner takes all. There is no big deal....after all its just birds story from the imagination of a bird watcher.

DAH JUMPA HARRIMAU KE!!!

harimau talk:harimau dah mula makan manusia kerana makanan dihutan berkurangan.

jaga kamu manusia

Orang tua kata kalau selalu masuk hutan satu hari jumpa harimau.Inilah apa yang berlaku dalam kemelut politik sekarang...biasa saja kuasa dan hadiah tak bolih dipisahkan..tapi bolih dikurangkan.
Orang muda kata kuasa itu wang dan wang itu kuasa.Patut lah semua nak cari kuasa dan menggunakan wang utk carinya.Yang menjadi maklumatnya orang malaysia sekarang ada yang dah jadi kaya raya(ada perniagaan import/export kut) hingga membolihkan membeli kuasa.Kalau setakat gaji dan elaun ...hanya cukup beri wang kpd anak isteri saja....tapi kalau gaya hidup yg stylo memang tak cukup...kadang2 ada pelihara ayam lagi.Ayam2 dikota tak makan dedak...ayam2 ni semua makan duit.

Memang sah juga ejen2 digunakan dlm politik hadiah...bukan senang nak buktikan...tapi mungkin yg dipakai ini double ejen...ejen2 pun nak cari wang lebih juga...apa salahnya kalau jadi tripple ejen pun.

Dah sampai masa MR. BOND 007...Dipanggil utk tangkap ejen2 ini.Ejen2 manusia memang tak bolih harap kalau melibatkan wang.....saya cadangkan lebih selamat guna perkhidmatan toyol saja.


Kita jangan risau sangat...perkara biasa saja dinegara2 membangun.Ia sementara saja hingga kita mencapai taraf negara maju.Ia akan berakhir sendirinya...Tapi kita mestilah kerja kuat utk kearah itu.Pada masa itu kita pun hara kiri juga utk menebus malu dan masa itu maruah diri menjadi lebih penting drp segalanya....minum kopi o cecawan dan nasi lemak sebunkus ..dah ok....jom kita p kerja....nun anak2 nak makan apa....

Bawa bertenang lah .Betul.... wang yang bayak bolih beli kebahgian tapi kadang2 membawa keaiban juga.Kadang2 keadilan(bukan PKR) itu muncul juga sekali sekala.Wang yang sikit pun bahagia juga...maruah diri terjaga juga.Janganlah kira duit saja.

KITA SAMA2 BERDOA AGAR GEJALA NEGETIF INI BERKURANGAN...DAN MALAYSIA LEBIH AMAN DAN SELESA....UTK KITA MENCARI REZKI...ORG. BIASA.

KITA BOLIH!!!! inshALLAH...tak pa.

KENDURI KENDURI MALAYSIA

Khenduri talk:orang jemput kenduri kenala pi...hulur sikit...dua tiga ringgit pun tak pa...jangan kedekut sangat...kalau tokoh2 tu spt menteri 2 tu hulur la 50 RM. ke..

mangsa

Saya baru balik makan khenduri...khendurinya ok...macam2 ada...orang pencen pun ada...kesian tengok dia, dh berkedut semuanya..makan pun nampak macam lahap juga.Saya tanya brapa lama dah pencen dia tak jawab....dia dok cerita legacy zaman dia masih berkhidmat...biasalah org pencen memang perangai mcm tu.Yg. sedih juga bila dengar dia merungut selama dia bersara jarang dia terima undangan.

mangsa

Tuan kenduri kawan baik juga...dia pun merungut juga...blanja kenduri hampir puluhan ribu...saya pun tau dia pun org biasa saja...mungkin hutang sana sini..tapi kenduri kena buat juga.Hulur2 lah setakat kemampuan..tak elok tangan kosong saja.Walaupun khenduri.... tuan khenduri berharap juga.Ada kawan saya dia sedekah RM150...ha puas hati.Kalau saya kenduri nanti siap dia...


Pengantin dh pergi bulan madu...tuan kenduri dok tongkat dagu.TAPI DALAM HATINYA TETAP BAHAGIA.

SURAT UTK. NUR NADIHAH

Tahniah kpd Nurdihah diatas kejayaan anda...dan shabbas juga kpd kerajaan negeri Kaelantan kerana berjanjikan rumah 100000 RM kpd nya...harap ini bukan janji politik....
Sekian lama kita menunggu sumbangan saperti ini yg secara jelas menunjukkan pengiktirafan yg patut kpd pencapaian akademik.Kita turut berbangga dgn pengiktirafan spt ini.Sebagai contoh kpd kerajaan lain dan juga pehak2 yg. berada.Ini pun dikira tak seberapa dibandingkan dgn pengiktirafan kpd. juara hiburan yg mendapat hadiah berlipat ganda lebih lumaian hanya sekadar tiga bulan menhadhiri kursus menyanyi.


Rasa terkilan dan simpati menyayat dihati bila melihat para cerdik pandai graduan universiti terumbang ambing kesana kemari mencari pekerjaan saolah2 tiada siapa yg. peduli.Mengenangkan mereka ini berusaha keras mengejar peluang utk menyambong rezeki ibu bapa dikampong...ibu bapa dirumah yang sentiasa terbayang dihati.

Kpd. Nur Nadihah...simpang hidup anda bermula disini...orang besar2 pun datangnya dari tempat2 yang kecil juga.Hanya satu..kpd org tua jangan lupa, sayangilah mereka selalu, itulah asas kebahgiaan hidup anda.Semoga maju jaya, doa saya bersama dgn. anda.Assalammualaikum.

Saya juga berdoa kpd. semua graduan yang sedang mencari pekerjaan agar berjaya... hidup anda lebih terbela dan lebih bermakna Aminyarobbulalamin.

A.F DAN MAKCIK MALAYSIA

Makcik Malaysia dan Akademi Fantasia ibarat irama dan lagu tak dapat dipisahkan ..andainya dipisahkan maka pincanglah negara.

Memang semua org tahu, makciklah penentu juara.Mari2 makcik kita undi budak ni...nampaknya chome juga..kita tau.makcik memang suka yg macho2 tu...jangan kisah sal suara dia, makcik bukan tau sangat..Tapi undi sajalah...jangan pulak cita2 nak buat suami...macam celebriti tua2 tu...dok cari budak2 buat suami...kesianla...biarla mereka tu dapat jodoh sama2 muda remaja.

Pakcik2 kata "mai kopi secawan"

ULAR DANU (rainbow,a photo taken at highway)

In Kedah we call this rainbow ular danu.Folk tale is this danu snake came down to drink water at the well at the other side of the hill.What was told in school its form when sun shines on the rain falling on other side.Its very COLOURFUL.Thinking of it ,life sometimes like ular danu too.

Like today am yellow,feeling SICKLY, I would 2 go 2 pharmacy 2 buy some vitamin e, because am having gout...if you got same problem u can try vit. e.

If u r blue...may be u can take r partner out 2 night.

If u r red ..may be u can go 2 Genting u can get lucky...who knows.

But PLEASE dont let your ular danu be BLACK....thats the end of u

Chou...take care of your danu. WHATS YOUR COLOUR TO DAY HA...

MAMAK POWER

Recession takes centre stage of discussion everywhere accros the nation...you try nasi kandar restoren...I don't think there is recession ,....recession is at astandstil there.Its mamak power.

Mamak..teh tarik satu.

A friend a cartonist in the photo....does he care that much?

ORANG KITA.

Muka2 org yg ikuti demonstrasi jalanan rata2 nampaknya org. kita...berimosi sekali memperjuangkan bahasa...kita pun kurang yakin apakah mereka ini erti bahasa.Tapi kita cukup yakin ada orang yang baling batu sembungi tangan dan orang itu sedang tersenyum lebar melihat kejayaannya sebagai penghasut yang pandai.Sedih melihat gelagat orang kita yg. begitu mudah diperalatkan.Yang tersenyum lebar itu pun org. kita juga dan kita pun sedih juga melihat dia yg. menghalalkan semua cara semata2 nak jadi ketua...saolah2 lupa kpd. Tuhan.(AstafirrulALLAHhalazim.)

Sampai bilakah bilakah mentallity orang kita akan berubah...adakah salepas 2020 satelah kita mencapai taraf negara maju...atau pun 500 tahun lagi .Adakah ini menjadi satu "faktor?"

Bagi kita orang biasa yang penting ialah grade anak2...bahasa pengantar apa pun bolih diterima mithalnya bahasa pelajaran sains dan mathematics.Tak payah turut pening kepala dgn. pakar2 bahasa yang mencari milage mereka sendiri.

Jiran kita score juga biar dlm apa bahasa pun, padahal itu bukan bahasa ibunda mereka pun.Persoalannya bahasa lebih penting atau usaha kuat itu lebih penting?.

BAHASA MELAYU KA....BAHASA KEBANGSAAN KE...itu pun sampai sekarang belum selesai.

FINANCIAL WARFAIR

kopi talk..politicion n statemen are busy attending meetings..fighting the financial crisis.Are they busy meeting or busy fending the crisis. Down here we the commoners may be doesn't have the time 2 think about it...whats on our mind is what our children will eat tomorrow.Life s always hard whether there be crisis or not...financial crisis is lifelong.

Among investers n bussiness men...they r the first to feel the crisis n busy finding ways n means 2 protect their investments..selling out as fast as they could at the expense of huge incentives n discounts.Time like this cash in hand is the best n there s gold rush too.

Modus operandy is quite the same...we heard british banks start to sell their braches globally..esp. asian region..reducing their operations worldwide..to call back cash.Britsh gov. has taken over bussiness...British gov. is a business men now(how far bussiness can grow if such)

May be what choice we developing countries have when such a massive crisis happen in the forefront....the storm is heading towards us, like it or not.Strong alarm it will hit us alort worse than the crisis before.How worst...its not us to tell cause we are just people "cari makan"busy all the time.

May be now is the beginning of global financial warfair n we are just a bystander watching n waiting...nothing much we can do of significance...may be meeting n forums just"batuk di tangga"may be just another "kopitalk."

KIRA CINTA SAJA

morning talk...on the way trafic light for sch boy crossing turns red..I stoped..2 sch. boys crossed to sch...there one car the opposite..the rd. was deserted..no more sch boys crossing.The light still red....at a glance of the rear mirror I saw the other car s still waiting...Iwas wondering why he waits when theres nothing except 4 the trafic light...well u had come accross situation like this too.(.rules vs common sense..how?)

From Bangsar 2 KL I got 2 take taxi (no..am not staying in Bangsar,got some work there).A taxi at the gas station willing 2 go 2 K.L.Indian driver.As usual taxi driver heard most hot gossip in KL.may it be politics or whatever..this is TAXI TALK, he went on talking about his family n children...may be its ok 2 release family disappointment 2 a complete stanger.

"Sekarang mau jaga anak banyak susah..pompuan lagi susah. u tau saya hari2 kerja bawa taxi cari duit kasi diaorg sekolah..sekarang sudah pandai apa cakap pun x mau dengar.Itu anak saya pompuan punya..sekolah sudah banyak tinggi tapi sekarang tak buat kerja..hari2 kira cinta saja.Saya pun pening oo tak tau apa mau buat.Saya cakap kalau mau cinta pun x pa tapi carila laki yang pandai..ada kerja.Itu hari dia bawa balik itu budak,saya tengok pun tarak suka la..apa pun x tau,mau spelling apa pun x tau."

To seperate them he send his daughter 2 unties house but doesnt solf the problem but create more problem quarreling with the aunty.........it seems his problem does not end easy.

He droped me at Jln. Embi...n ask how much..he said RM50,I told him from Shah Alam to KL only RM30...the end I got to pay all the same.

In my mind I said you KIRA DUIT SAJA....

Taxi in KL I would always prefer chinese taxi driver..less hassle, cheaper as they always use meter nusully more honest.

SUCCESS OF A PELIKAT MAN

Wayback..many years a hause mate got an invitation from his cewek 2 attn open house at kolej tunku kursiah...need no imtro. i think.its where brain n beauty merge.We ...8 of us take opportunity 2 tag along...wow what a day to b...must be a happy...there were flashes of colors aa over...music playing loud, party,carnival,hapening habis..(those days of kos when LULU reigned the chart)

Like allways what goes up must come down...fun s over n back to routin...the lectures of course...those girls we visited came 4a retun visit ...our house in jln gasing pj.

Can imagine house with 12 bechlrs staying...what a mess...while they wer in, this happy g lucky guy came out from his room clad in KAIN PELIKAT n without shirt too...n join in.Well what to do... Msia is a democratic country with parliament.

One week later we received a p card from Seremban asking"....by the way how is our PELIKAT MAN?

Today he attends internationl seminars n speaks n share opinions in high level forums...entrusted by many in respectble coporation n organisation...the same friendly old friend but already carrying title Dato'.Tahniah Yg. Berbahgia Dato' Mat..THE PELIKAT MAN may ALLAH bless u always

Kain pelikat remains popular among us...am wearing it all the time..esp. made in India,its cotton n confertable.Keep wearing who knows u can be the 2nd succesful PELIKAT MAN.

PANTUN EKONOMI GAWAT

You know well the word recession got us all taken aback..".takut takut"..on a spree to save as much as possible..how much can you save when all the way you never been able to, cause theres nothing left.

PISANG EMAS BAWA BELAYAR
MASAK SEBIJI DIATAS PETI
HUTANG EMAS ORANG TAK BAYAR
HUTANG BUDI ORANG LARI

Sorry baba n nyonya malacca...doesn't mean to spoil yr pantun..for time of recession only..quite wise to be xtra careful with your money...esp.to lending out...

DUA POKOK DURIAN

1.Semasa saya tiba dipabat tanah saya terserempak dengan empat orang kampong.Dua orang lelaki dan dua orang perempuan.Mungkin suami isteri dan bersaudara semuanya.Nada suara mereka tinggi dan jelas mereka ini bergaduh.Tanpa hirau orang sekeliling.

2."Lani pokok durin tu hampa tak bolih makan dah..dah pindah milik kat kami dah..kami makan pulak."Loghat kedah dalam.

3."Tak kan kami tak bolih tumpang makan sikit2 kot."Suara sedih perempuan diselah pehak yg telah lucut kuasa diatas dua pokok durian itu melalui bicara kuasa harta pesaka.

4."Tak bolih!"terdengar suara yang tegas.

5.Drama merebut dua pokok durian.Pendengar rasa amat sedih mengenang kedaifan orang kampung yg miskin.Drp penampilan dan wajah mereka yg lusuh itu terbayang kehidupan mereka yg dihimpit penderitaan susah payah kehidupani. Pendengar diam.....dan didalam hati berdoa agar pergaduhan mereka ini tidak panjang dan dapat menyambong kembali siratulrahim...kerana yg direbut itu dua pokok durian sahaja.

6.Tapi pendengar mengerti...pandangan org. tidak sama.Perkara yg kecil bagi saorang besar bagi org lain.Alah malu diatasi kemiskinan hidup.Biar orang seribu mereka tetap bergaduh juga.

7.Kpd. yg belum miskin...cubalah sedaya mungkin jauhkan diri dari keazaban ini inshALLAH.kerana kemiskinan itu menyakitkan.Sama2 kita doakan.

SALAM UNTUK TOK WAN

1.Dua loving couple yang telah lama bersara...sudah melewati umur tujuh puluhan...sedang berehat diverendah rumah...menghabiskan sisa2 hidup mereka. Semasa mereka masih bekerja masing2 sibuk dan jarang2 ada kesempatan begini.

2.Suami break the silence dan memandang kearah isterinya yg kelihatan sangat tua lalu secara gurauan bertanya"darling bolih aku bertanya satu perkara...selama ini aku tak pernah berkesempatan dan hampir lupa".

3."Ok lah bang apa itu...apakah perkara yg lama terpendam itu".Dalam hatinya terasa sangat ingin tahu.

4."Aku hanya ingin bertanya...selama kita berkahwin ni adakah kamu pernah berlaku curang pada ku" sambil memandang kearah isteri tua itu dgn penuh mesra.

5.Isteri tua itu berasa masa terhenti seketika...keindahan petang itu menjadi hening.

6."Apa merepek org tua ni"suara isteri tua itu terlepas sepontan.


7."Tak pa la....kita sudah tua".pujuk sisuami.

8."Seingat aku adalah tiga kali kut."Sisuami cepat2 bertanya."Kali pertama tu bila?"

9."Abang ingat dak masa rumah kita kena lelong...kita amat tertekan masa itu..kita amat susah masa tu...dan aku pergi berjumpa dgn pegawai bank minta tolong...dan lepas tu lelong di tarik balik."

10."Oo macam tu...tak pa lah...sayang telah membantu abang menyelamatkan rumah kita...kalau tidak entah dimana kita tinggal sekarang."..."Kedua kalinya bila pula." Tak sabar hendak tahu.

11."Kali keduanya...abang ingat dak semasa abang masuk hospital cek sakit jantung dan dr. mengesahkan abang perlu buat bypass dgn. segera dan kita memerlukan perbelanjaan yg. banyak sedangkan kita tidak mampu.Semasa itu pun sangat buntu dan tidak ada jln. lain.Saya merayu pertongan dr. itu....dan abang berjaya menjalani pembedahan itu tanpa bayaran satu sen pun"

12."Thank you my darling...yau save my life."Dan kali ketiganya bila pula.

13."You remember when you are running for president of the club....abang kekurangan 150 undi at last you won the president."

14.Orang tua itu diam.....bangun dan jalan masuk kedalam rumah'