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HARD DISK DRIVE COMES WITH TERRABIT STORAGE

Seagate unveils 1.5TB drive. WOW! Fantastic! More storage means more documents and files can be store in hard disk. I hope the hard disk won't turn ugly when accidentally dropped. What will happen if the information can’t be recover? More IT people will end up in ‘Hospital Bahagia’. I will be the first one to sign the registration form. HA! HA!

PROTON STILL GOING STRONG

It’s been 23 years since Proton Saga introduced to Malaysian and the world early 80’s. Now new Proton Gen2 is coming to UK. Actually is Proton Gen2 new facelift. I am proud of Proton’s achievement although not owning it before because I can’t endure with the lack of reliability of the accessories such as failure of power window, battery problem or even a minor sound when driving the car. The technology Proton cars developed still can compete to foreign cars. Hopefully Proton can survive another decade and will not need the support from the government. Be competitive by introducing more models and venture into hybrid cars or smaller compact cars. To cut cost, give tender to vendor who is more reliable and offer cheap materials compare to current ones.









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Now,

posted by rocky bru :

Proton is 23 on Wednesday. Once the pride of Malaysians, especially those in the lower income bracket, our national car has today become an embarrassment and, to some, an obstacle.But in the 90s, Sagas were hitting foreign streets from Singapore to London, and there was even a time when left-hand drive Malaysian-made cars were being considered for the US.My first Proton was a brand new Saga hatchback. I traded in my 7th-hand RX-7 for the brand new Proton. Sold it off for the more spacious and sporty Aeroback in 93. When NST, in a bid to tighten its belt, offered to sell its company cars to the senior executives driving them, I decided to buy the Perdana. The Aeroback and the Perdana are still serving us faithfully to this day.Proton's charge on the world auto arena peaked when it bought MV Agusta, the Italian bike maker (after having acquired the Lotus earlier). It was planning to manufacture one of the cheapest cars in the world using bike engines.And then Mr Badawi took over as Prime Minister ....Anyway, Happy Birthday Proton. The company's pioneers are celebrating at Kelab Shah Alam at 8.30 Wednesday night.

MALAYSIA REPEATING HISTORY

I agree the thoughts and future views from Datuk Seri Dr. Chua Soi Lek. Especially sentences in red written below. Can the government see what is going to happen?

Posted by Datuk Seri Dr. Chua Soi Lek

Fuel Hike and Inflation

We are now facing an economic crisis as bad as the 1997 financial crisis, maybe not as dramatic as the depreciation of currency as in 1997. However, impact of the fuel rise and increase in prices in almost all essential goods, creeping inflation, political uncertainty, the US slowdown, all these will definitely affect export sector and will put the Malaysia economy under great stress. The fuel hike will definitely cause the increase in the cost of production and this will definitely eat into the profit margin of the various economic sectors, ultimately, the erosion of their profit margin. This may cause an economic contraction and this will lead to a chain effect, both up streams and down streams. The various industries and services will definitely put expansion on hold. There may be retrenchment, hence unemployment may grow up. Creation of new jobs may come down. Under the RMK9, the yearly creation of new jobs should be 200, 000 per year. I doubt that we can achieve this figure this year. For next year, it could be anybody’s guess for what the employment rate would be, but one thing for sure is that the creation of new work will be much less. Government’s revenue will definitely be affected because corporate tax, individual tax and entertainment tax will be down. Bank will also be confronted with non-performing loans, both from corporate and household loans. Less people will be traveling; both within the country and outside the country and this will affect the whole service sector of hotels, public transportation and entertainment. One area of the service sector which I find illogical is the Ministry of Cooperative and Entrepreneur’s consistent refusal for the taxi fare and transportation fare to be readjusted to cope up with the fuel hike. While they may be provided with subsidized fuel, fuel is only one of the components involved in the public transportation system since many other factors are involved from spare parts, wages of drivers and etc. Hence, it makes no sense that they are not allowed to readjust their fare and transportation changes. Therefore, we can understand why we have dishonest and not so friendly taxi and bus drivers. Hence, we may be facing economic slowdown, rising unemployment, inflation going up, government revenue going down and consumer confidence badly affected and I am sure street demonstration will not resolve these issues.