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Charged 20 sen by mamak shop for one-piece chicken plastic bag
Yup. The mamak shop worker had asked me if I wanted a plastic bag for my purchase of one piece fried chicken. Of course lah. Takkan saya nak bawa balik seketul ayam itu dalam tapak tangan.
I was charged RM4.20 for that little chicken in the small plastic bag. They’re passing on the costs to consumers.
It was actually an impulse buy. I’d quickly dropped in at the outlet as an afterthought in passing by. In future if I want to tapau food, I might consider bringing along a Tupperware or tiffin carrier.
I know another mamak place that’s added on 50 sen for the transparent plastic box in which you take away your meal — this is ever since styrofoam boxes were banned beginning Jan 1 this year.
Some people might say “hanya dua kupang pe”. But it all does add up as you spend in the day. You just don’t know which trader/retailer will be applying the charge on what kind of product or service.
Multiply the plus +20 sen cost here and plus +50 sen there across the span of a month (x 30 days) and it will make a small dent on the spending of our population segment whose main expenditure is on groceries.
Moreover we now have to buy brand new plastic bags to throw away our rubbish in instead of recycling the ones we used to get free from the supermarket.
Bet you can still remember how the introduction of GST sent prices everywhere spiraling even though the government assured us that they have things under control.
BELOW: Najib scowling at a packet of cooking oil in the Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia
Photo published two days ago in Najib’s Facebook
BELOW: From the same visit to the Kelana Jaya LRT store on 2 Sept 2016
Najib was not visibly upset at the poor cooking oil packet back then
BELOW: Scenes from the supermarket in early Novermber 2016
Chariot race and the Daptizing of Penang
In Ben Hur the movie, the battle of the chariots is a race to kill.
In Betelham (sister city to Jerusubang), it’s a matter of the DAP state government racing its RM3 million prosperity chariot against the 120-year old Lord Muruga chariot that has traditionally made its way from Little India to the waterfall Hindu temple on Thaipusam.
Yup, the ultrakiasu DAP state is pitting its 1.6-tonne, golden chariot against the old silver one of the Nagarattaar Chettiyaars that has faithfully trundled along over the last century to mark the festival in Penang. (more…)
No hope, no cure
The Pakatun target audience of Life of Annie gutter blog.
PAN walking into a mousetrap
My kittens have been catching mice.
S’gor exco must explain Christian presence in mosques
Only religious programmes are allowed in Selangor mosques. Even PAS cannot stage its political programmes at the mosque and surau, state exco Iskandar Abdul Samad told Malay Mail Online.
What kind of “religious programmes” are the evangelical Christian Hannah Yeoh – pix below – and her horde staging in the mosques? (more…)
Shahrizat is wrong
She thinks Kit Siang and Tun “cium mulut”. Actually Kit Siang is leaning over to nibble Tun’s ear.
Dogs and cats think differently and head in opposite directions — as illustrated by my cat and dog below.
Throughout GE12 and GE13, DAP herded its sheeple in the direction of “PAS for All’. But now that DAP and PAS have fallen out, the flip-flop party is redirecting its lobotomized flock to Tun — a bunga mas tribute tied with yellow ribbon and gift card bearing the legend “I’m yours”.
(Listen to the song in the music video below; its lyrics are very appropriate of the DAP’s free and easy love-love-love behaviour.)
What a shocking day!
Never thought I’d live to see this kind of story headline getting top thumbs in Malaysiakini.
‘Mahahtir deserves the best of seats’ – the Most Read article today in Malaysiakini – is written by strident evangelista Stephen Ng.
The evangelical embrace of the man they used to call The Father of Racism is now complete. (more…)
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