Bernie Madoff: Scammer and Ponzi Schemer!

Gawd! After reading more about this Bernie Madoff creep low class ass human and his stupid little classless act Ponzi scheme. I might just wanna roll over and die. Pity those who make the decision to invest with him. GREED it seems has a huge fucking influence on everyday little people. It makes you go wild flushes with adrenaline. Makes you pathetic poor little investors felt better right?!?!?

Wrong!!!!!!!! The world are driven by people like him. Greed, fear and i might add ego. Invest in some instruments that is SO unbelievable solid with nice returns and i will tell you, its all fake. All of those are just instruments and tools to manipulate you to make you feel better and feel more confident. At least, they uses this to convince you to invest, for you to make that decisions. To lose your hard earned penny. To invest with them.

So that low-class act f____rs like him will be able to live a life that is fake and comtemporary. USD50 billion worth of funds are actually worthless. Yes! Of course, unless someone in US will be able to recover some of these funds. Which of course, will be given to corporate account 1st such as HSBC, which seems to be one of the biggest loser as according to here.

OMG OMG OMG! How can anyone be so stupid?!?!?!?!?!? (see the lists below copied from clusterstock) Don't they do checks and balances? Banks wor! I can smell it better than those add together 100 years of experience bankers. Perhaps, Madoff promise returns are too tempting. GREED.


HSBC "has emerged as one the largest victims of Bernard Madoff’s alleged fraud with potential exposure of about $1bn...HSBC’s exposure stemmed from loans it provided to institutional clients, mainly hedge funds of funds, that wanted to invest with Mr Madoff. HSBC’s direct exposure is believed to be about $1bn in loans provided to clients who invested some $500m of their own funds in Mr Madoff’s venture. Under the typical terms of these deals, if the US authorities recover any funds from Mr Madoff, HSBC will be paid first, with its clients suffering the first tranche of losses."

Access International. $1.4 billion

Fortis Bank. $1.4 billion

Man Group’s RMF division has about $350m invested in funds which outsourced their management to Madoff securities, although this is a tiny fraction of the division’s $25bn of assets.

Tremont Capital. Fund of funds. $3.3 billion invested.

Pioneer Investments, an arm of Italy’s UniCredit, had “substantially all” of $835m invested with Madoff.

Union Bancaire Privet: $1.1 billion

Benbasset & Cie: $935 million

BBVA: $404 million

Maxam Capital Management LLC. Combined loss of $280 million. "I'm wiped out," said Sandra Manzke, Maxam's founder and chairman. The Darien, Conn., fund of hedge funds will have to close as a result of the losses, she said.

Fairfield Greenwich Group. Bloomberg: The biggest loser may be Walter Noel’s Fairfield Greenwich Group, whose $7.3 billion Fairfield Sentry Ltd. invested with Madoff’s eponymous firm, three people familiar with the matter said... Fairfield Sentry has a record of more than 15 years with an annual return of 4 to 6 percentage points above benchmark interest rates, according to a marketing document dated this month that was prepared by Zurich-based NPB New Private Bank Ltd. On an absolute basis, returns exceeded 10 percent every year from 1991 through 2000. Since then, they ranged from 6.4 percent to 9.8 percent...The strategy is a “split-strike conversion,” where the investment manager buys shares of large U.S. companies and enters into options contracts to limit the risk, the document says.

Fix Asset Management. Bloomberg: Fix Asset Management, which had an account worth at least $400 million with Madoff Investments. The firm said it’s checking with lawyers about the holdings. “We are very shocked,” John Fix, the son of founder Charles Fix, said by phone from Greece. “We put in redemptions in the past few months and got our money back no problem. We are just so surprised about all this.”

Kingate Management Ltd. Bloomberg says $2.8 billion Kingate Global Fund Ltd. invested with Madoff.

Santander. WSJ: The eurozone's largest bank by market value, said its clients had an exposure of €2.33 billion ($3.1 billion) to Madoff's investment funds, mainly through its Optimal Strategic US Equity fund. More than €2 billion belongs to institutional investors and international clients of its private-banking business, which provides services to wealthy individuals, it said. The remaining €320 million belongs to private-banking customers in Spain, where Santander is based.

Thyssen Family. Source sends the following: Thybo Investments grew out of a family office for Thyssen. They have been in fund of funds it seems since 1989. Thybo International is a "proper" fund of fund but it's newer share class G invests only in one manager - and i'm 99% sure it's Madoff as the returns are almost the same. Some more info. The fund started in Jan 2007. Ernst & Young. Luxembourg are the auditors. UBS Luxembourg is the administrator. Thybo states on their webpage: "Our track record incorporates audited financial statements at both a composite firm-wide and individual portfolios level."

Ira Roth's family. WSJ: Ira Roth, a New Jersey resident, who says his family has about $1 million invested through Mr. Madoff's firm, is "in a state of panic." He said his 86-year-old mother-in-law has been living on the investments' returns, and he has been using the funds to pay college tuition.

Sterling Equities. Fund controlled by Fred Wilpon, co-owner of the NY Mets, confirms it had money with Madoff.

Stephen Abbott, a San Francisco lawyer. WSJ: [Abbott] and two siblings had several hundred thousand dollars invested with Mr. Madoff. They inherited the trust from their father, who had befriended Mr. Madoff years ago. Performance remained steady through the current bear market, he said. "People were floored," he says. "We were making money in this lousy market." He says he is concerned about recovering the money but "you have to get philosophical about this stuff. It could be worse; we still have our health."

Palm Beach Country Club. Source: CNBC's David Faber

Lawrence Velvel, "69, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law, said he and a friend may have lost millions of dollars between them (AP). "This is a major disaster for a lot of people," Velvel said in a telephone interview from his Andover, Mass., office. "You work all your life, you finally manage to save up something, and somebody who's entrusted with it, it turns out suddenly he's a crook. Lots of people are getting fully or partially wiped out." Velvel said he wants to know where government regulators, as well as accountants and others at Madoff's company, were when the money was being lost."

Loeb Family. Source: CNBC's David Faber

J. Ezra Merkin. GMAC LLC Chairman. WSJ: Mr. Merkin, the chairman of former General Motors Corp. financing arm GMAC, is also a money manager at Ascot Partners LLC in New York. Ascot, which had $1.8 billion under management as of Sept. 30, had substantially all of its assets invested with Mr. Madoff, according to a letter to Mr. Merkin sent to clients Thursday night. Mr. Merkin said as one of the largest investors in Ascot, he believed he had personally "suffered major losses from this catastrophe."

Norman Braman. Former Philadelphia Eagles owner

Leonard Feinstein, co-founder of retailer Bed Bath & Beyond.

Mort Zuckerman. Mr. Zuckerman, the chairman of real-estate firm Boston Properties and owner of the New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report, had significant exposure through a fund that invested substantially all of its assets with Mr. Madoff

Richard Spring. WSJ: A Boca Raton resident and former securities analyst, says he had about $11 million -- or 95% of his net worth -- invested with Mr. Madoff. "That's how much I believed in him," Mr. Spring said.

Elie Wiesel's Foundation For Humanity. Lost $37 million.

Members of half-a-dozen country clubs: WSJ: "Mr. Madoff tapped social networks in Dallas, Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis. In Minnesota, he attracted investors from Hillcrest Golf Club of St. Paul and Oak Ridge Country Club in Hopkins, investors say. One of them estimated that investors from the two clubs may have invested more than $100 million combined. One of the largest clusters of Madoff investors was in Florida, where losses could be substantial. Mr. Madoff relied on a network of friends, family and business colleagues to attract investors. According to investors and agents, some of these agents were paid commissions for harvesting investors. Others had separate, lucrative business relationships with Mr. Madoff. "If you were eating lunch at the club or golfing, everyone was always talking about how Madoff was making them all this money," one investor says. "Everyone wanted to sign up." Jeff Fischer, a top divorce attorney in Palm Beach, says many of his clients were also Mr. Madoff's clients. "Every big divorce that came through my office had portfolio positions with Madoff," he says. Two of his investors said that among his clients, Mr. Madoff was considered a money-management legend; they would joke that if Mr. Madoff was a fraud, he'd take down half the world with him."

Bramdean Alternatives in the U.K. 9% of portfolio.

Banque Benedict Hentsch, Geneva-based private bank, $47.5 million.

Nomura and Neue Privat Bank. "Marketed access to Fairfield Sentry Ltd., a fund overseen by Mr. Madoff and sold through Fairfield Greenwich. The shares offered by Neue Privat and Nomura were leveraged three times -- meaning $3 of borrowed money was added to every $1 of capital invested in order to magnify returns, greatly increasing the potential losses for those investors."

Unicredit. The Italian firm had unspecified amount with Madoff via its Dublin-based Pioneer alt-asset group.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg. Unspecified

Robert Lappin Foundation in Massachusetts closed its doors today and is citing relationship to Maddoff fund. $8MM foundation plus personal holdings. Foundation supported Jewish organizations throughout North Shore of Massachusetts. (source: Jewish Journal)

Wunderkinder Foundation, a Steven Spielberg charity. In the past the foundation "appears to have invested a significant portion of its assets with Mr. Madoff, based on regulatory filings. In 2006, the Madoff firm accounted for roughly 70% of the foundation's interest and dividend income, according to regulatory filings. A representative of Mr. Spielberg confirmed that the foundation has suffered losses on its investments with the Madoff firm. He said he didn't know the size of the losses and couldn't comment further, including on whether Mr. Spielberg had any of his own money invested with the Madoff firm."

BNP Paribas. "BNP Paribas's exposure, the extent of which is not clear, may stem from BNP's lending relationship with a fund of funds that was a big Madoff client, said people familiar with the matter. A BNP spokeswoman declined to comment." WSJ: BNP, France's largest bank by market value, said it could lose as much as 350 million euros as a result of the alleged fraud. The bank said it has no investment of its own in the hedge funds managed by Bernard Madoff Investment Services. BNP Paribas, however, said it is exposed to these funds through its trading business and lending to hedge funds that had invested in Madoff's funds.

Ira Rennert. Vicky Ward of Vanity Fair, said on CNBC."Heavily, heavily invested."

Englebardt family of Los Angeles. (Reader)

Swiss private bank Reichmuth & Co. "said its clients had an exposure of some 385 million Swiss francs to Madoff funds. The bank said Reichmuth Matterhorn, a fund that invests in other hedge funds, faced a potential loss of about 8.6% on its exposure to Madoff. That amount represented about 3.5% of the 11 billion Swiss Francs Reichmuth & Co. has under management, the bank said."

Union Bancaire Privee. UBP spokesman said the bank's clients have "limited" losses related to Madoff, but wouldn't be more specific or comment further.

EIM Group, the European investment manager with about $11 billion in assets, had a number of non-U.S. investors into funds overseen by Mr. Madoff, according to people familiar with the matter. Overall, EIM assets at risk are less than 2% of what it manages, which means losses could top $200 million.

UBS: ""Very limited" direct exposure to the Madoff funds...But the Zurich-based bank's wealth-management arm helped clients in Europe and possibly elsewhere invest with Mr. Madoff, according to investment professionals in Europe who spoke with some of these clients. UBS is currently reviewing its clients' exposure to Mr. Madoff's funds, according to the person familiar with the matter. The person said the funds weren't on UBS's list of "recommended" investments for its U.S. clients, but that they may have been among the firm's suggested investments for overseas clients."

Stephen A. Fine, president of Biltrite Corp.

Avram and Carol Goldberg, former owners of the Stop & Shop supermarket chain

Helfman family of Miami.

Saul Katz, co-owner of the New York Mets.

Irwin Kellner, of Port Washington.

Carl and Ruth Shapiro, donors to Brandeis University, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The Boston Globe reported on Saturday that the Shapiro family foundation lost almost half its money, or about $145 million.

Fairfield County, Connecticut. Bloomberg: First Selectman Ken Flatto and other elected officials in Fairfield, Connecticut, thought the 58,000- person town’s pension fund was holding up well amid the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The 18 percent decline in total assets since the end of June looked smart compared with the 31 percent plunge in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, and total assets of $286 million left a cushion over the $270 million of estimated liabilities. Flatto’s mood darkened yesterday when he heard Bernard Madoff, a Wall Street executive who oversaw $42 million of the assets, had been arrested and charged with fraud. “We classified this on our portfolio as one of the more conservative investments,” Flatto said in an interview. “You rely on your experts and your managers to be honest.”

Royal Bank of Scotland: $330 million

Nomura: $302 million

Aozora Bank: $137 million

Various Boston families: The Boston Globe.

Jeff Katzenberg. Dreamworks CEO has "millions" in Madoff losses.

Gerald Breslauer. Jeff Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg's financial advisor. WSJ: According to people familiar with the matter, Mr. Breslauer himself has likely sustained heavy losses in the Madoff affair. He customarily invests alongside his clients, say these people, and has sometimes been a larger investor than the people he represented. People familiar with the matter said Mr. Breslauer was known to be a Madoff investor.

Yeshiva University lost $100 million to $110 million.

Jewish Federation of Greater Washington said it had $10 million invested with Mr. Madoff, about 8 percent of its endowment as of Nov. 30. The organization said it would work to recover the money.

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System: $5.7 million exposure to Madoff Securities in the form of a gift from a donor who insisted that it be invested that way. “The donor who contributed the funds has graciously agreed to reimburse the health system for any financial loss,” the organization said in a statement.

Ramaz School lost some $6 million invested with Mr. Madoff, according to a letter sent to board members and two parents whose children attend the school.

SAR Academy, a Jewish school in the Bronx, had roughly a third of its $3.7 million in assets invested with Mr. Madoff, according to an e-mail message it sent to donors and parents.

Chais Family Foundation in Encino, Calif., announced over the weekend that its losses had forced it to stop operating, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The foundation had $178 million in assets in May 2007, according to its tax form.

JEHT Foundation. May have lost hundreds of millions. Will cease operations.

Arpad Busson. Uma Thurman's billionaire fiance runs hedge fund, EIM, which was reportedly exposed to roughly $270 million of products sold by Madoff

Accountants Scott Sosnik & Larry Bell. Accountants who worked for many of Madoff victims claim that they too lost money.

Swiss insurer Baloise. $13 million. (Reuters)

Swiss Re: Less than $3 million (Reuters)

Burt Ross. Former Ft. Lee, NJ mayor lost $5 million.

Maimonides School. Boston school lost $3 million. (Boston.com)

Charles & Cindi Nadler Foundation. $10 million.

Tufts University $20 million (Boston.com)

Alexandra Penney. Artist and author lost bulk of her life savings. (Daily Beast)

Robert Chew. Colorado-based investor. (TIME)

Fair Food Foundation. Detroit-based urban farming group. (NYMag)

Pasha S. Anwar and Julia Anwar. Investors first to sue Fairfield Greenwich. (DealBook)

Pedro Almodovar. Famed Spanish film director has $240,000 "at risk" (Bloomberg)

More as we get them...


Can you imagine these lists of people are going to get longer?!?!?!?!?! WTF WTF?!?!?!? Banks, financial institutions, hedge funds, foundations, charitable funds, trusts funds and etc etc did not due their due diligence. In rechecking and rechecking all your money.

OoooOOOoopssss! I forgot. Its not their MONEY! Worst case scenario, they still fight for their year end bonus. FUCK! Maggots.

Read this too. He too lost a fortune and lost hopes in these international investments.

At the end, i believe this. Simplicity has its virtue. Forget the numbers and all those fancy fancy paperworks and numbers. It boils down to the bottomline and the most simplest things of all. The most important thing, "If it is too good to be true, most probably it is!"

Last but not least, i heed this advice from which i hold on to (which is in my heart guiding me all along, in regardless of the world turmoil, the world's multi-religion and beliefs) CHARACTER OVER CONTEMPORARY STUFFS.

The world need more charismatic individuals like Muhammad Yunus or Steve Jobs, to change the world to a better place. Fuck the rest. People like Madoff, in spite of his fame, fortune, ego and reputation, which IMHO, all contemporary stuffs, fucking around the world and with peoples sweat and money.

Gawd! I hate people like them. What about you?

Mundane Day: No Armin!

I was feeling a little mundane recently. Remember i was so so so so eagerly wanted to go and hit the club Muse 2 for Armin Van Buuren and shitty things to happen. It does not comes cheap though at RMB250 for a piece of pre-door entry ticket that does not include drinks.

I practically wrote an email to the ticketing guy and wanted to get an advance ticket but i was unable to get one due to my poor time management. But, i got an advice to get it at the door and it should be of no harm although rather expensive! Ticket at the door should costs me RMB350 a piece.

I make my way to the club, Muse 2 located in the Plaza 66 in Nanjing Xi Lu at around 11++ on Saturday night. To my horror, when i reached that entrance and i was superly astonished that i was people was flocking at the Plaza 66 door entrance rather than the club entrance. I was DOOM.....

Its true. RMB400 for a piece of ticket (after an increase of another RMB50) and people are still rushing in. But the door was closed and was hold up by several guards stopping clubbers to even get to the lift to 5th floor! OMFG! There i was, standing in the cold winter, wishing i have bought the ticket earlier. And i was stucked there without a ticket and feeling stupid.

The club was packed like sardines by 11.45pm on a Saturday night?!?!?!? WTF? Shanghai cub scene is like only starts at 11pm?!?!?!?!? And there i was, feeling helpless standing there for over 30 minutes hoping to be able to slot in between the doors when the crowd disperse.

1am!

The guard is there and so is the crowd.

Fuck! Enough is enough! RMB400 can get me a decent alcohol at Shelter or even other clubs. I can perhaps ride to Muse 1 for some old school hip hop and be able to drink till i vomit for RMB400 bucks. Schlong! Plus the review of the Armin event was like at the tops and super superly nice! He played till 4am, someone said! OMFG! And there i was heading back to hotel at 2.30am feeling suck!

I was disappointed.

I will make up to it. I must go to Sasha at Club JJ2 next month.

Out!

Pissed Off!

I am rather busy at recent times. But, i want to S.C.R.E.A.M. this! I hate China web filtering system!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I can't go to Facebook nor Blogspot anymore!

*only by using web proxy and something else apart from IE (i am using Firefox + Web Proxy)

F.U.C.K.!

Integrity + Harmony = Success?

Reading this post from Lee Kuan Yew makes me feels a hundred times better than to read our dear thestar.com.my

At least it offers something more educational and more inspiring for readers.

I agree wholeheartedly regarding about the content of the statement given by the MM of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, about the key to Singapore success. Its the integrity that makes the country a success. Its from the top management. Its about the racial integration, chinese, malays, indians and others staying and working together achieving greatness and harmony.

I mean, those who have been to Singapore, in general, will know that Singaporeans do Works together and Talks to each other (maybe for the exception of the overcrowding of foreign migrates from Bangladeshs and Indians) But generally, Singaporeans do work together without stabbing each other using races as a barrier, unlike our dear Malaysians who categorize themselves as malay, orang asli, orang asal, bumiputera and etc etc. While calling Chinese and Indians pigs and "go back to your homeland la! You Pigs!"

To further understand of the behavioural and the mindset of the orang asli, ooooooppps!, orang asal, we need to understand their upbringing and their family influences, especially from their peers and parents.

In general, majority and a lot of these "kampung" peoples that comprises of malays, chinese and indians, are from a poor and village background. Their main objectives in lifes are generally categorize into:

1. Bred the next generation aka have sex nightly,
2. Make little money for food aka daily pay,
3. Rare cows and chickens (to save costs),
4. Plant some vegetables (to save costs as well),
5. Clean the lands behind the kampung house (to eliminate Aedes mosquitoes),
6. Have teh tarik with useless friends at Mamak under the tree every evening,
7. Talk about the "pretty young" girl that passes by wearing her tudung and have a nice smile,
8. Gossiping about the political parties; without doing anything at all,
9. Eat, sleep and do nothing again,
10. Have sex with the 4 wifes nightly.

You see. Sure la they are busy. Their mindset is of pea size brain. How to educate their children to run the country in the near future? No wonder Malaysian politics is at its mess. No wonder citizens are very easy to be coaxed to have demonstrasi and reformasi. How not? Just buy them a glass of teh tarik and shout some slogan about the ineffectiveness of our country leadership, and the whole kampung will wear Malaysia flag as their bandana carrying the flag while riding their kap-chais (motorcycles in local slang) to the parliament.

The little red dot, refered in the article by Lee Kuan Yew, is now bigger, better and more marvelous than our dear Malaysia. Such a pathetic place, name Malaysia, run by even more pathetic people. Calling themselves as leaders. *fainting*

To change the country future, unless these current bred of leaders and ministers are willing to massive resign, over the failure of jobs and performance, we need massive downsizing when recession is here. Just read those ministers in South Korea resign over some shambles. We need to copy over Chua Soi Lek, who resigns himself after his sex scandal is leaked out. At least, he has integrity and admits to his mistakes. At least, he is better than some Indian guy, who says, "that guys looks like me, but maybe thats not me", when he was shown the tape in the court. WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?

We need to run like a big corporation. We, Malaysians, pays taxes for the government to run the country afterall. We need a organization that is effective and acts with integrity. Its exactly the same concept as a multinational corporation heading by a CEO, top management and middle management down to labours and workers. What we need right now is a change in the management. A management with integrity.

Of course, the overall direction made by these leaders also plays a massive role, such as investing in a world class education system that TEACHES the correct moral value to the students. These are some of the examples, IMHO, that i suggests:

1. Races are to be united and SHOWN by examples of lecturers that comprises of malay, chinese and indians.
2. An art student studying in university to be given a related field of studies, NOT, in a CHEMICAL ENGINEERING field?!?!?!?!?
3. Less political base parties and events in universities. More and more solid quality lecturers to be hired.
4. Changing the mentality and fundamentals of students, workout + smart + integrity = success!

What do you think?

Malaysia Fiasco!

I am rather busy nowadays trying to absorb all the freaking latest most electrifying news all over the net ranging from everything to anything. I like those news and updates especially the news of our current political scene back home in Malaysia. In short, we have summarized that our political parties and individuals back home is funnier and more interesting than TVB Hong Kong and the much awaiting for The Hulk.

Anwar sodomising again?!?!?!?!?!? I have lost faith in the system and i bear it no longer. C'Mon man. I dunno which is real anymore and what is the truth behind all these pieces of action. Someone with quite an importance in the opposition party, jailed several years back on the ground of sodomy, resurfaces again. I mean the bigger picture would be, is it really true that someone really wanted to assassin him, until he seeks refuge in Turkish Embassy in Malaysia?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Is it true that he is a freak within, that he can hardly control his own devil in sodomizing man?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Or is it true that because of the news and the hypes that is upcoming and rising, that the other political parties, decided to hire someone to get rid of him?!?!?!? Or even simpler in political sense, he created the story and news himself to make the government look bad. You tell me?!?!?!?!?!?

Headache la!

MCA president and vice president goes public with their pre-announcement NOT to challenge for their seats anymore in the next MCA election?!?!?!?!?!? WTF is happening man? I mean, if you are a man and a pure man, that fights adversaries and stand on your ground, chances are that you will fight for your seats and make things better. Look at Hillary Clinton vs Obama, fighting neck to neck, not admitting defeat, even with chances look slim and sort-of-destined to lose, fighting to the very end.

No. Our MCA president, Mr Ong and vice president, Mr Chan, decided to announce earlier that they are not contesting for their SUPPOSED seats that they ARE CURRENTLY seating. The whole scenario looks bullshit to me. Its like you are the GM of this company, running the show, fighting to uphold and carrying the company vision and mission, and out of the sudden, before, they are fired and conducted for mismanagement of something else of worthing crimes, these GM decided to stand up and announce that they are leaving their seats in a couple of months time and they no longer interested to hold to the position of GM anymore.

OMG! If they are to work in corporate world, they must be the stupidiest GM ever. I mean, if you are not interested to be GM, why in the 1st place, offer yourself to be the president of MCA? Fight for a couple of years, hitching a ride in the party and post and now decided its no longer worth fighting for whatever reasons, then announces retiring from the seat, EVEN before the reelection of party. OMG! WTFSH?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I can't sum it up ....... ....... .......

Perhaps the old man have his own version of his story. Or maybe i should be more compassionate towards these old man.

>_<

Another issue that i thought worthy of mention, if i am a Penangites, what do i think and feel now? .... .... .... .... .... ....

Central government decided to halt back on the development of the states, both mega projects of Penang Outer Ring Road and Penang Monorail for the exception of 2nd Link Bridge. Is the government stupid or just too blind? It is ego and revenge that the management wanted? Or are they planning and thinking for the long term big picture?!?!?!?!? I doubt so!

C'Mon. Its simple politics and its simple math. Penang is a growing economy and its huge investment for foreign companies invested in there. AMD, Intel and DELL all have invested their long term planning and $$$$ there in hoping for more stability and more government support and long term business. Penang are well known outside of Malaysia, both tourist destination, foods and its namesake, PENANG! At least, its a known island with friendly people and nice beach.

WTF happened?!?!?!?!?!? The central decided to hold back the funds to develop that particular island. NOT 1 but 2?!?!?!?!? Both monorail and PORR project. Luckily, the 2nd Link Penang Bridge is still going on. WTF is those monkeys thinking? Revenge and ego, to lost out that island control to the opposition. The current minister, Mr Lim decided not to follow NEP rather follow a multi racial system, thus, the central government decided to teach Penangites a lesson in politics, "I DARE YOU TO VOTE FOR OPPOSITION AGAIN!" Hahahahahahaha!

Penang is one of the more developed places in peninsular Malaysia after KL. They have sort of international airport and huge multinational corporation invested there. It is also a hub for tourists with its gem of beaches and good food. But WTF happen? The government decided to channel all the funds and $$$$ to "supposed" more needed places for "poors" such as Sabah and Sarawak, which, IMHO, all bullshit and crap that makes Anwar and Dr M looks like angel to me now.

IMHO, they are just pure stupid. ARE they treating Malaysians like a child of 12 years old, stupid and silly, or perhaps they think,"WTF can you average Malaysians do?" Majority of the citizens in the west coasts of peninsular Malaysia has already support the opposition, 5 states in fact, why bother to win back your votes? You west Malaysians are harder to control and hard to influenced, monkey bloggers and et cetera, why bother to win you back?

AHHA! Instead, why not we give benefits to SABAHans and SARAWAKIANans? They have been much neglected by us for a long long time. All their resources from the Borneo, timber and oil profits have been channeled to us in the peninsular for a long time. Why not help them this time? (You think so?!?!?!?!?)

I tell you. The real decision is this, Sabahans and S'wakans is THE ONLY chances BN left to secure their parties control over the central government. Since now, that the fiasco in Sabah occurs, if BN do not do anything about it now, if it really breaks up, BN will lose Sabah to opposition as well. Simple maths. Lose SABAH = Lose Government and CONTROL.

Plus, its cheapers, simpler and easier to influences SABAHans to swing and vote for BN. They are much simpler people there, just hoping for a better future; having more lands, oils, timber, gas and fish for them. You know how simple can a village person is? What is more important for them? Fish, land, timber, KK or KL? Screw KL if i am them. Hahahaha.

Hence, its simple politics for BN aka central government. Screw the Penangites and support the Borneo's. I rest my case. I felt disturb even though i am not a Penangites. But a Malaysian who felt very disturbed mentally by the actions of the government. Its like working for a company, whose management fucks with the direction and long term benefits for the company for the sake of their own control and pocket.

Would you work for these kind of company? I doubt so. Unless, you are a simple and care-not-much bumiputera in Malaysia working just to pass the time in the office, hopings for more holidays and a fatter bonus. I am very sad to see this happen to my home country now.

Perhaps, maybe the only way for Malaysia to grow, is to remove all these crap management and replace them with professionals, who really have the expertise and experience to run the country like a corporation, somehow similiar with Singapore.

>_<

My Luck My Moment!

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Thats the face reaction i am gonna show today. What the hell?!?!? Is the freaking god of luck trying to test my luck or test my higher will in patience?!?!? KNNCCBSHLCHML!1!1!1! *grrrrrrrrrrr........!!!!!!*


You see, i thought i saw one special number last friday. Suddenly i draws to me that this number has some special meaning or special feelings to it. You know la. Those time that you feel like the number is a little special than normal and you feel like going to buy a lottery with it.


Well, i saw mine. The number is 7278. You know what happen?



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Non-Malay Should Shutup?

*Update: This article is by a Professor Azmi Sharom, which entirely expresses what is wrong with our government right now back home.*

I have so many things in the back of my head right now and i have so much things that i want to write now. Feels like exploding in the back of my freaking little un'multitasking head. Luckily, blogging is really what i love to do now and i do not mind writing posts and creating photos and snapping pictures while doing research about it in the net. :)

I am feeling dreadful now *Please refer to the title!* Actually feeling fucking pissed off yet can't do anything about it for the reasons of:

1. Nothing much to do with me as i am at overseas working.
2. I did not vote at election this year. (they should at least create online vote la!, 21st century with Cyberjaya wor? Niama, like 1980 technology voting system like that!)
3. All of the above.

But, still fucking hell. Whattafuck is happening to my country man! Disgraceful and back to stone age perhaps?

Referring to the posts and stories we read from "open" blog such as Malaysiakini, Malaysiatoday or Patrick Teoh's Niamah, read on the story about the Kelantan crown prince of my beloved homeland, Malaysia outrageously stupiditily idiotic KNNCCBHKLLCSHB comment and speech! Be prepare to cry and fuck relentlessly at your computer, at your friend, at your neighbour or even at the local mamak store about this fucking comment that he says.

Extracted from Patrick's Niamah *respect that man* post: Tengku Faris: Non-Malays should not seek equality

I was like whatthefuck! Is he from outer space or something? Has he been to Pluto for the last 2 decades and left his freaking brains there? Or is he the freaking frog who lives in his small little Kelantan palace/mansion/istana that he has no fucking idea what-is-fucking-happening-to-the-fucking-21st-century?

We were like OMG! watthefuck is he blaberring about? No 1 can believe someone can actually say something out like that! "Its like we are citizens of the world, get the fuck back to pluto man!" or "Its like saying that we, men have a dick while you girls have a pussy, so shut up!"

OMG! Now i do seriously fuckingly believe that we, Malaysians, do not wish to come back to Malaysia for this particular fucking reason. What are the reasons, if you were to ask me, these group of expats Malaysians overseas NOT coming back? Hundreds of reasons not to (we were discussing the benefits of working/living overseas ie Australia, Singapore, China, Canada, America and Europe)

These are the reasons:

1. We are respected when we are overseas more than we get at home, particularly more for non-malays.

2. We are paid more and get back more when we are working our ass off overseas, even as a dish-washer at the back lane of a chinese restaurant? Ask around to get better accurate information.

3. We are being treat equally if not better overseas, which reminds me, no differences or WORST when we are back home. 2nd class citizen even in Malaysia? *Ptui*

4. We have much more security and peace of mind when living overseas, less petty crimes such as snatch thief and break-ins (with exception of Guangzhou / Shenzhen)

5. We, Malaysians (Asians), are more hardworking generally, which makes us even more outstanding in working environment. Ask any business owners, if there is a choice to hire a malay or vietnamese, what do you think the answer is?

6. We secure our future by working hard overseas. Our children, our future retirement, our medical benefits is at the power of our palm. Its within our grasp.

7. (add further comment, please!)

Now tell me, why would anyone wanna be back home? With exception of 3F, family, friends and food!

I am seriously feeling devastated when i get to know this piece of crap. What do you do? -_-

2008

I am lost for words right now. I felt fucked up.


What a nice day! ~~~Fucked Up~~~



What BANGING START to my new year in 2008.


My boss screwed me up. "You are NOT DOING YOUR JOB CORRECTLY, ain't ya?"

My personal life is at a peak. *Fucked Up*



Someone once quoted to me before, "A MAN GOTTA PUT HIS FAMILY IN FRONT 1ST BEFORE HIMSELF"


~~~~ I am pretty fucked up for the rest of the week ~~~~





Adios!





P.S. I am really screwed up emotionally and mentally right now. HarHarHar......

Boiling Pressure!

Today is really the worst day and the day that i can make myself to forget about. So many things happen, really stressful and funny stuff happens in my life in one fucking funny day. After thinking back of what that actually happen in the last 24 hours, i can giggle and laugh back at myself for what i've written in my blog. Its true and its the truth. I do felt like shit this afternoon. One comes after another shit. Now even at night i've step into more shit. Really. I felt funny.

My sister, my friend, my darling msn me and ask what happen until i am so fucking stress up today in the afternoon. Yes, they do concern about me. I'm happy about their concern showing them that i'm not alone and not that lonely in this lonely planet. As for my darling, i've read her message and felt very concern after reading it. She is very lonely right now with Romeo. She suffers alone, all alone without me being there to help and console her. She crys and weeps thinking about me and what did actually went wrong in our life. I am and was thinking that all the time as well. I sometimes, even as a man and the pillar of the family also can't take that heavy stress and the pressure of love and emotions. We are really a creature of habits and emotions. It is hard to control your emotions and it takes a great deal of courage and iron-willed actually to do that. Its the sheer determination and the iron heart to be able to overcome emotional stress. I do hope that my darling will be able to withstand the pressure and the stress currently.

I do have my own set of problems as well. Pressure from work, pressure from monetary issue, pressure of responsibility as a family man, fatherly pressure, as an eldest son pressure and etc. Pressure to succeed in the real life in terms of career, as a person both emotionally and physically, financially pressure to escape from rat race and hope that i can actually escape from it. So fucking many pressure and stress to take in at all times. All responsible man will have that pressure from these environment as well. How do they actually take it all in at the same time? Really wish i can as strong as them.

At the same time today during eve of midnight, received some sms's from my darling back from home in home country. I felt disturb and felt a great deal of compassion, sympathy, empathy, love and responsibility for my own family, Romeo and myself as well. How does it come to this event that is happening in my life right now? I am confused and lost my direction in searching and working for money, the M word that is used to solve gazilions of problems that i'm facing right now.

I have seen a feng shui master before during end of last year. Went together with my wife in hoping to search for an answer that can gives us enlightment and clues that can make my future looks brighter. She went on and told me that the current situation that i'm facing right now is a rough patch in my life right now. She went on and says that i'm just like a Mercedes Benz S class series going through a rocky road right now. I believe that my life will be better very soon. I believe in that, and at least i have a hope that can gives me some shining enlightment when the times goes dark.

I am hoping for the best and i will work for it, being a proactive and a doer, i believe that times ahead of me will be better if i keep on focusing on my dreams and goals. I can make it happen and i believe in myself that i can do it!

Freaking Fucking Pissed Off

Even until now, i am still feeling fucked up, the feeling of being played in multi directions with no ending and end in sight. I do not know how to end this fucking feeling. Perhaps, i am lost and i do not know what is the next step to do. Just confuse and is freaking confusing. Still have this damn feeling of shit in me. Dunno why. Maybe i'll proceed again to this cafe and eat the shit whole lot of ice-cream to cool myself down and smoke like chimney again. Feeling of eating ice-cream to cure this soreness in my heart and just let the ice melt in my mouth and have the brain freezing sensation.

Fucker! Hate the fucking feeling. Now is just hoping that this funny freaking feeling of fucked up will fade away soon. Hopefully when i finish my ice-cream later, everything will be better. With all the stress at office to out performed the expectation, responsibilities and duties to be done, added on summore with the fucking manager and the shitty liar whom we thought we could trust, with my family small little problems, missing my family and Romeo as well, time shortage when i go back to Malaysia next week for all the things to do and all the time allocated to do all these things in the time frame that is so tight, hell no wonder i'm so fucking stress up this freaking fucking week. My schedule for the next month is solid book with works and activities, even with no time for any error or mistakes. Shit! Can even have some time to relax or let go some stress except on weekend.

I'm really looking forward to this weekend and have a enjoyable and relaxing time. Time whereby stress is less and i am able to let go of work, except i have to work this Saturday for replacement day. Shit less 1 day to rest and straight to work next Monday. And i have to arrange all my schedules to fit into the already super tight week. Money is not a pleasure for me also for now. Financial is very tight with no rooms for extra expenditure nor i am be able to do anything or buy anything expensive for the next 3 months. This is how tight my situation is.

Really looking forward to let go and relax and just cool down. Imagining sitting on a lazy chair by the beachside, during sunset, with winds chilling blowing at your body and face, listening to the sound of waves rocking against the rock and sands giving me ultimate pleasure to relax and chill out. Holding at my hand is a cuppa of ice latte, wet and cool. I can really imagine the scenario and the cooling effect on me right now.

Really hoping that this freaking fucking shitty shit feeling will flame off soon enough. Fuck those fuckers!

Ciao...

Bad Week Bad Day

I am so fucking piss off right now. Really fucking piss off and fucking day. Fucking week and fucking day! Really a bad week for me this fucking whole week especially today. Fucking stupid! All came out to my shockingly disturbing mind just jolted me to wake up and make me piss off after that. One lead after another and all wham to me by noon. Sometimes, when things does get tough, it really does. I believe i'll be allright soon enough. Its just that i wanted to vent my anger out. I am a person who do not like to keep the fucking frustration and fucking stress in my heart and my mind.

Firstly, 1 stupid manager from my company, which does not have any nice image in my company, do something stupid and make a lot of out staff angry. He is in charge now for being all the other top guys is not in, some went back to Singapore and some went to outstation for work. This stupid manager makes us guys to move steel metal cupboard by carrying from 3rd floor to the ground floor. Enough said, why can't he engaged the logistics company employee to move it since they will be coming to pick up the cupboard. Approximately 8 cupboard were carried down from 3rd floor to the ground floor. We are professionals and as an employee as well, we have not much other choices but to listen to him. The fucker does the worst. We carried all and at the end, what did i saw? He is just standing there ordering people doing it and he just chat happily with some girls while we are moving the fucking heavy steel metal cupboard. He smiles and not even say a word of thank you to all of us. It was me, who actually thank the guys who help us both to move the cupboard. Those volunteers when i called them to help. It was me, not the fucking manager who says thank you and give an appreciation sign to my fellow colleagues. Btw, he is just a manager, not even the VP, CEO, country manager or even the boss of the company. Enough said. Fuck it!

Then, after lunch, he call us again to move the cupboard from ground floor back up to 3rd floor again saying that after a discussion with out VP, they come to agreement to keep the cupboard back to its original position. The 3rd floor. WTF! Fucking hell, why don't he discuss with the VP 1st before ordering us to move the cupboard. 2 times work and sweating hell. And we are forced to move back the cupboard back to 3rd floor. I can just ignored it. Its not my job anyway, but if i were not to help, my colleagues will be doing it also for him. I can't be just sitting there and watch my colleague do the job while i am sitting there, right? So, out of frustration, i help to carry at well. Making me drench in my own sweat with my working suit. Fucker! I cursed him in Cantonese while i am carrying the cupboard. Fucking shit Fucking hell manager!

Then the 2nd fucking thing, an associate whom i consider friend to me lied to me so smoothly and even show no regrets nor any signs of feeling bad. I got to know this when one of my friend told me the whole story just to inform me of what actually did happen. I got the extra news and extra information from my friend contradicts of what did i hear. After of hearing what did actually happens versus what of what the fucking liar told me, i was shock but i was cool at the beginning. Not feeling too good at that particular time and only after when the whole news sank into my mind, i did only piss off with the whole fucking behaviour thing with this particular person. Fucking liar lies behind my back and lies so smoothly that i might be cheated until my friend told me about it. Fucking shit and fucking person.CB!

Really do not know what this fucking person is up to. Messing around with us and twisting the whole fucking story and lies lies and nothing but a bunch of lies. Fucking fedup with all the fucking hell lying at behind my back. CB! Really making me piss off right now! Only Paul Oakenfold now is chilling me out with his techno and bass pumping at both of my ears. Really feeling like taking revenge but i know it does not going to bring any good if i move and take that step. Nothing good except making me feeling better, which is momentarily only. Rather i prefer just keep quiet and see whats the next step from this fucking hell liar. Just see what is the next fucking step from this fucker. Anything more, i will fuck this fucker upside down and making sure that this fucker will not have a good time. Shitty fucker.

Enough fucking shit for the day. Plus, i hate it when i really spoiled my mood for the weekend, which is tomorrow. Thinking of wanting to relax and go with the flow, chilling out. Until all these fucking events happens on Friday. Let my pressure to go 1st by today before i goes back home later. At least i hope that later and tomorrow will be a better day.

Internet Ineffectiveness

For the whole weekend, i wasn't able to access to internet from my home. Dunno for whatever damn reasons, i thought the connection is bad and something is wrong with the network. But, apparently what i figure out is that we might have miss out in paying the monthly telecom payment for the internet broadband connection. Maybe that is the reason why in the 1st place i can't log into the net.

Same thing happen today, Monday, in the office. OMG! What the shit happen? Still can't access to the internet. We called into the IT administrator in our office to solve it out. They managed to get us online so that we can get all our emails and tons of others by lunch time. Phew! Finally, at least i can surf the net and download emails from our webmails server. At least, i can also do some blogging :P

What did you do in the last weekend? My schedule is pretty tight and have a lot of activities going on on Saturday and Sunday as well. Was pretty exhausted and not having enough rest for the last 2 days. Weekend is supposed to be a chill out day for me. At least after a whole damn week of heavy workload and works needed to be done. I thought that i can at least a have decent rest in home on Sunday before proceeding to work on Monday. I was wrong. Apparently i need to come back to office on Sunday for the reason of Feng Shui.

A feng shui master calculated that we should be starting to work on this particulat Sunday rather than Monday due to some chinese calender calculation. It is better for our Chi or Qi. Some i have to drag myself back to the office, not to mention that i'm sleepy, to go back to office. Not that bad in the beginning, just the 4 of us at the office hanging around and open our notebook and do something. We left at 5pm and go back straight to home. Internet is down the that time, Sunday, and we weren;t able to do much in the office. Just do some cleaning up and "pretends" that we start works on the Sunday itself.

I think i'll make my time useful in the office now. I'm drowzy and feeling damn sleepy to be exact. Eyes closing and hands typing. Maybe i'll go for a smoke and makes my blood move faster with the nicotine and adrenalin. Need that.

Thats all for now. Wish me luck not to sleep and move my head up and down in the office.

Ciao!