Year end

It feels like it was just yesterday that we've celebrated the New Year for 2008 and we're almost at  the end of it today. When I was studying, I felt that time almost stood still. To wait for 1 minute to pass by was so slow and now when we are much older, the days and months seems to fly by at the speed of light.

I was actually wondering what happened to all the days, weeks and months that just flew by me and thinking where is my progress in life. I'm still in the same situation that I was last year. Feels like nothing much has changed throughout this year as compared to last year.

Now with BN getting a simple majority this time around, it has definitely created more havoc instead of good for the country. Lets take Penang for an example. The State Government is run by the then Opposition while the local council is being run by the then state government.

New laws and by-laws is being churned out by the local council without getting any consent from the State Government. The business operators who are trying to make their ends meet are facing more trouble from the local council now as compared to previously. 

My question here is, why can't both parties work hand in hand to make the environment better to live in? Why can't both parties make it easier for business operators to obtain their licenses? Why can they hunt down those irresponsible people who try to cheat or outsmart the innocent people?

I guess that is simply out of their scope of work as to them, money in their pocket is better then helping out the poor people. I' was wondering, if one day, during the general elections, all voters refuse to cast their votes for anybody at all. This would mean that 26 million people refusing o vote as we don't see the point of voting when all it does is bring us more pain and agony after voting for the party that we thought was good enough to serve us.

I find it totally a waste of time these days to vote for somebody or even a party and in return you don't get a single thing done. The amount of potholes on the roads has not decreased. Even at USD45 per barrel of oil, we are still being charged RM 1.80/lit at our pumps when it was USD 87/barrel and we were being charged RM 1.92/lit.

The reduction of 3% from your EPF will ultimately increase your income tax. So on the pretext of boosting the spending power, the government is looking for ways and means to make you contribute more money to them. 

I hope that all our grievances would be looked into instead of putting up a monkey show that we read about daily in the newspaper. 

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year.

Cheers