Ah, Zahrain!

Cynical reaction: Not everyone has faith in the MACC

WAR ON CORRUPTION WINS KONSENSUS SUPPORT. Finally, a Member of Parliament brave enough to give praise to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commisison (MACC) for its untiring efforts to fight corruption. Read Tahniah, SPRM the blog post by Zahrain Mohd Hashim, the MP for Bayan Baru. Zahrain represents neither the government coalition (BN) nor the Opposition coalition (PR). He is Konsensus Bebas.

 I agree with Zahrain absolutely. The MACC needs our support to fight corruption.  Take the move to arrest and charge former Selangor MB Khir Toyo yesterday. Some people on twitter were quick to say that this was an election ploy by the Barisan Nasional government. They have their own reasons to be cynical but let's give credit where it's due.

On a different note, apologies for not updating my blog since last week. And a belated Maal Hijrah. Due to some connectivity problems in the boondocks where I live, my cyber activities have been limited to the Twitter. One of my tweets last week ...

My tweet last week

20 million registered vehicles in Malaysia

Unbelievable. The Audi Q5 ... There's a one-year queue for this baby in Malaysia

Despite extortionate prices, unreasonably high import taxes, killer duties, and after all that talk about how unattractive the national cars are, and that the used car market sucks, and APs are making a few rich at the expense of the masses, and all that whining and bitching .... WE will have more than 20 million registered vehicles by the end of this year. 

2009 alone, more than ONE MILLION new vehicles were registered in Malaysia!

So our cars are still too cheap?

Rocky's latest Bru in The Malay Mail

The PM's 700 Mhz Bolt. Only a few people weren't grinning as they came out of last Monday's meeting between the PM and the telco bosses ... CLICK TO READ MORE

The article looks into what happened at Monday's closed-door meeting and why the telco bosses shouldn't be grinning to widely. The consumers are paying too much, sometimes for bad service, and we haven't been smiling for a while now ..