Tahukah anda berapa 'ringgit' Kerajaan dapat dari Petronas setiap tahun?

Salam to all

Laporan kewangan Petronas yg baru sahaja dipublish mendedahkan bahawa Profit/keuntungan depa MENINGKAT dari RM45.5 billion kepada RM63 Billion (ya, billion cheq....bukannya milion) - sumber: TheStar.com.my. Daripada laporan ini juga menyatakan bahawa Petronas dikehendaki memberikan kerajaan RM30 billion setiap tahun (Oh ye ke !!). RM30 billlion bukannya sedikit, bersamaan dgn RM30,000 JUTA.

Alhamdulillah, duit ini sangat penting utk kerajaan kita gunakan bagi tujuan pembangunan negara dan juga kebajikan rakyat marhaen seperti kita ini. Ini juga merupakan salah satu punca pendapatan utama negara. Persoalannya di sini adalah bagaimana kita nak tahu sejauhmana dan ke manakah perginya duit RM30 billion? bagaimanakah kerajaan membelanjakan setiap SEN duit RM30 billion ini? adakah semua RM30 billion (setiap sen) ini betul2 disalurkan untuk pembangunan negara dan rakyat? bagaimana kita nak check semua ini?

Menurut laporan kewangan Petronas juga, ada disebut bahawa SETIAP TAHUN (annually) mereka salurkan RM30 billion kepada kerajaan (dipanggil Government dividen). Kalau tahun lepas kerajaan kata depa terpaksa menanggung RM8 Billion Subsidi Minyak, maknanya secara simple mathematics, kerajaan masih memperolehi (RM30 - 8 bilion) RM22 billion dividen dari Petronas. Disebabkan KENAIKAN HARGA MINYAK dunia juga, keuntungan Petronas telah meningkat sebanyak RM18 billion !!. Maklumle, kita kan negara pengeluar minyak....so kalau harga minyak dunia naik, maka lagi banyakle keuntungan Petronas, dan makin banyakla dividen kpd kerajaan (dan makin suffer le kita kan). Tetapi disebabkan SUBSIDI, kerajaan kata kalau harga minyak tak dinaikkan, maka kerajaan akan terpaksa menanggung subsidi sebanyak RM18 billion !!....wow, banyak tu (source: http://paultan.org/topics/special/malaysian-fuel-prices/).

Menurut Petronas juga, selepas ini dividen kpd kerajaan akan ditetapkan pada kadar 30% daripada setiap keuntungan Petronas. Kalau ikut pada kadar dividen semasa (yang sehingga kini kerajaan kita terima), maka RM30 billion itu bersamaan dgn 47.6%. Dengan erti kata lain, kalau guna kadar 30% yg akan dilaksanakan, maka kerajaan akan hanya dapat RM18.9 billion sahaja. Banyak tu TURUN!!.....itu belum tolak SUBSIDI lagi !!

Aku tak mau bersangka buruk dan tidak mahu menuduh sesiapa....TAPI, kalau ada pihak2 berkepentingan yang turut sama mengaut keuntungan petronas atas nama kerajaan (tapi masuk poket sendiri via syarikat proksi depa), maka penurunan dari RM30 bilion kpd 18.9 billion adalah sgt byk!!...takkan nak tolak SUBSIDI lagi??...habislah side income aku lagu ni!

Satu lagi persoalan yg aku nak timbulkan di sini adalah, kalau harga minyak dunia terus MENINGKAT selepas ini, dan subsidi pulak dikurangkan sehinggalah takde langsung, maka impaknya akan terbahagi kepada TIGA:

1. Dividen kerajaan akan NAIK (semoga faedahnya sampai kpd rakyat)
2. Harga petrol/diesel pengguna NAIK, harga BARANGAN NAIK, KOS Sara Hidup Naik, INFLASI naik
3. GAJI kita NAIK..ehem.....aku NAIK Hairan !! :-)

adios!

Siapa ASTRO untuk menindas kita ?!!

Salam to all,

After Electricity & sugar's price hikes, now it's ASTRO turn to 'pick up' the momentum. What momentum? well, momentum untuk menaikkan harga bagi pakej2 nya. maklumla, kehidupan kita skrg ni kalau takde ASTRO, macam makan nasi takde kuah!.

Masalahnya, baru je hari tu ASTRO transfer the burden of paying 'service tax' to all their customers. tengok bil kalau tak caye....dulu takde, sekarang dah ada service tax. La ni pulak start 11 julai ni depa buat 'pelarasan harga' pulak dah....(aku suka sgt terms 'pelarasan' ni....macam lemah lembut je bunyinye). Cuba check balik pakej anda semua.....kalau selain pakej family (basic) anda ada 1 mini + 1 sport, confirm naik RM8.50 (more or less). Jadi persoalannya di sini, apakah ASAS dan SEBAB astro naikkan harga ni?

biasalakan, depa kan org bisnes....contents price naik, operating cost naik, satellite fees naik, subscriptions fee to content provider naik dan bla bla bla.....itu hak diaorang la kan nak naikkan byk manapun, janji kita 'TAK KISAH' ....bayar je kan....


Tapi dalam era 'under-pressured consumerisation' ni...kita perlulah juga tau serba sedikit perkara2 yg berlaku 'behind the scene'. Kalau korang tak tau lagi, ASTRO ni bukan lagi public listed company...sejak jun 2010, ia telahpun di takeover sepenuhnya oleh ASTRO Holdings sdn bhd....sebuah syarikat yg ditubuhkan khas utk mengambil alih ASTRO. Siapakah disebalik ASTRO HOldings? Usaha Teguh (syarikat ANANDA Krishnan) yg memegang lebih kurang 50% syer, diikuti oleh KHAZANAH nasional (hampir 20% - ini kan milik kerajaan) dan Bumiputra Foundations (Linked to Tun Haniff Omar). Siapakah penasihat rasmi (advisor) disebalik proses pengambil-alihan ASTRO ini....CIMB berhad (siapa CEO...ntah). Bila ASTRO dah jadi 'SDN BHD', maka mereka tidak wajib utk mendedahkan semua aktiviti business dan juga operating expenditure/profit to the public. no more transparency la kan.

Dari segi Tan Sri ANANDA Krishnan pula, beliau bukan sahaja memprivatise kan ASTRO, malah beliau sudahpun berbuat perkara yg sama ke atas MAXIS (kini dah jadi Sdn Bhd juga). Beliau juga pemilik POWERTEK, salah satu IPP yg menawarkan sumber tenaga kepada TNB. Siapa lagi IPP yg lain....antaranya Genting Sanyen, Malakoff, YTL Power.....siapakan antara director and pemegang2 saham di syarikat2 gergasi semua ini?....korang carilah sendiri...malas dah aku nak cari.

kita sebagai pengguna ni dah dijadikan 'pawn' ataupun lebih sesuai digelar pencacai yg mudah diperkotak-katikkan oleh orang2 korporat ini demi utk meningkatkan lagi kekayaan mereka yg sudahpun terlalu kaya. As for our ministers and politicians? well......NO COMMENTS!! what can we do now? cancel our astro and go to 'kedai mamak' to watch football? hehehe then kedai mamak will increase the price to bear the 'crowded costs'....

adios

The By-election

It's about time to 'dispose-off' the by-election in our country. Not only that it wasting 'people's money', but it also diverts our attention from the real issues, the hardships of our economy and the reality of our welfare. The best thing when the state reps/parliamentary reps dies, their party would select someone else from within to replace him/her. The only time we need a by-election is when the constituency is represented by a non-party reps, neither the BN nor the Pakatan. The most important thing is people have spoken during the general election, so keep the status quo on until the next election.

Use people's money wisely, to us and for us. We don't need 'by-election'!!.

hbl.

Feels like election day is EVERYDAY!!

Just wondering why do feel like living in an "election country". Flipping thru' newspapers and blimey most of the headlines are all about the upcoming by-election (s). I remember when we recently had two by-elections at the same time (Batu Sapi & Galas) and all the mainstream media (TV & papers) had succesfully ran detail coverage on both by-elections. What saddened me was that not very far from Malaysia, a small state named KEDAH was badly hit by flood and seems that NO ONE CARE. What was even amusing was when one senior minister from the federal govt. stated that the flood victims should be under the "jurisdiction" of the state government and argued why federal govt should be there first to help?!

Due to the limited media coverage, some of my friends from KL even asked me how bad was the flood. HOW BAD? It seems that elections is far more important than urgently helping the flood victims. The funny thing was by the time the by-elections finish, all Malaysian have finally shifted their attention towards Kedah. Finally.

I think it's about time that we change our paradigm, shifting our 'obsession' from daily political nuisance to far more critical issues such as how to halt the price increment of the fuel, how to minimize the inflation rate, how to maintain (if not reducing) current househod groceries costs, and how to help the needy.

IMPROVE OUR ECONOMY, NOT POLITICING OUR ECONOMY :-)

Only a smile that lasted more than 3 seconds is a sincere smile..:-)

Smile is not something that you have to pay, but it pays you handsomely if you keep on smiling!

Some people need to learn how to smile...i mean seriously some of us don't know how! I firmly believe that a sincere smile should last at least 3 seconds. No, you don't have to count it, but you can do an experiment to prove it. If you don't like someone and you come across him/her, then try smile at him/her...you should ask someone else to snap your photo during this 'memorable' moment..hahaha. On the other hand, what happen if you meet someone that you like/love, then surely your smile lasted more than 3 seconds (unless if you are trying to 'ass-kissing' someone very important to your career...then it may last more than 10 seconds!!).

Our Society, our beloved Malaysian people also need to be more generous. Why so afraid or hesitate to smile back if someone else smile at you. Those who work at the service counter (govt sector or private) dealing directly with the customers are the real heroes for their respective organizations if you are generous enough in giving away your precious smile. Unfortunately, there are countless of culprits sitting comfortably at the service counter without knowing anything about the word "customer". There is absolutely no need for the government to kick start a special campaign trail to promote this nor asking all their manpower to 'learn' how to smile or even ask them to wear a special smiley batch...hehehe.

People need to understand the important of smile, not only that it may help launching (or perhaps re-launching) your career (or your faltering career), but smile may also take you to a different territories, a new possibilities in your life. Trust me, smile keep you younger, depicting your self-esteem and help reducing other people's misery. According to a research (sorry folks, don't remember exactly who's the author), your high blood pressure, stress, tension and other related illness (including ageing problem) could easily been reduced by always giving away a sincere smile every single day. It is not a myth nor a liar.

One thing to be sure, "Smile is not something that you have to pay, but it pays you handsomely if you keep on smiling". adios.

Siapa kata orang malaysia ni lemah lembut dan bersopan santun? "People Characters & Driving behaviours"

Dulu kita sering dijamukan dengan pendapat bahawa orang kita ni, yakni orang Malaysia ni merupakan orang yang lemah lembut dan bersopan santun, pendek kata penuh dengan budi bahasa. Adakah ini masih lagi fakta atau hanya tinggal mitos semata-mata?

Cuba perhatikan orang kita kalau mereka sedang memandu kereta atau motorsikal? di mana budi bahasa mereka? kalau terlihat someone cuba keluar dari simpang ke jalan besar (main road), adakah kita 'bagi chance' ataupun pada  kadar segera kita memecut untuk menutup laluannya? hehehe...tepuk dada tanya selera. Kalau kita sedang beratur di suatu junction, ada tak mana2 pemandu yang dengan selambanya 'potong line'? atau adakah anda pernah 'dibuntuti' dengan begitu rapat oleh 'michael schumacher' malaysia dari belakang? tepuk dada tanya selera. Kadang-kadang tu, tengah kita berhenti di simpang yang ada traffic light, and ampu bertukar ke hijau...anda lambat jalan je dalam 5 saat, pernah tak kena hon dari belakang?...tepuk dada tanya selera.

Bukan setakat itu sahaja, berapa ramai daripada kita yang benar2 mematuhi lampu isyarat? hijau bermaksud jalan, kuning bermaksud tekan minyak boleh jalan lagi, dan merah maksudnya ada lagi 5-6 saat boleh lagi jalan....:-)....bab pecut memecut ni pulak, masalahnya ada juga rakan2 kita ni yang bawa kereta macam kura2....terlalu slow-mo, pun menyusahkan orang lain juga. Dia relaks, habis tu kalau ada orang lain yang sedang bergelut dengan masa macam mana? selfish i guess....itu belum kira lagi 'kehebatan' pemandu2 bas dan teksi yang boleh kata sebahagian daripada mereka ini dikira layak masuk Formula One...

Itu belum kira lagi rakan2 kita yang mempunyai skill tahap dewa iaitu memandu atau menunggang motorsikal sambil berSMS!!!.....terer tu...tangan kanan pegang handle motorsikal, tangan kira tekan SMS...anak kat belakang tak pakai helmet...perrghhhh tulang besi urat dawai punya orang ni!! salute...memang salute....

Pendek kata, kalau nak tahu karakter sebenar orang Malaysia, bagi kat dia stereng kereta atau motorsikal, tengok macam mana perangai sebenar dia...hehehe....dah tak larat dah nak tepuk dada tanya selera....asyik kena tepuk je sakit dah....hbl#