Lensazum visits to the Golden Age of Islamic Civilization

It was history. From as far west as Cordoba to the far East into the Orient, this was a long-long time ago.

My visit to the exhibition was kind of in a rush hour morning traffic, too many people made me feel claustrophobic.

To bad Chomsky only talk about the last three decade of power, not the last three dominant power of the world

Monsoon Season gone crazy

An extraordinary monsoon season currently affecting my area with extraordinary rainfall and flood. By the look of the satellite image above, is is terrible. Being in the Crisis Management Center of a district is totally overwhelming experience. One thing for sure. There's always flood victims and there's always opportunist, trying to seek profit out of all this natural disaster by trying to be in the list of the flood victims and receiving helps from the government and the private sector.

Then came the Bumiputra Economic Hit Man

John Perkins' book entitle "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" struck me by the ideas of doing the same in my line of work of giving loans to businesses. In his version of EHM, he brought down a country into an enslavement by giving out loans worth billions of dollar. Well, me? I can bring down people into bankruptcy with loans worth more than 30k or more. Out of my portfolio, it is a scary thought, imagine out of 50 loans, 40 fail miserably in paying back. That;s 80% failure. To understand more about EHM, please visit the link at the side.

Low on working capital, perhaps?

Funny thing about RM 50 notes. Every time I withdraw money from ATM machines, I always get RM 50 notes. It is rare for me to get RM 10 notes. And RM50 notes a prone to rejections by small businesess. There have been a few rejections recently, by shopkeepers, restaurants, and even a petrol station. As if the RM50 note is worthless.

The first incident happens 3 days ago when I want to make a payment for the meal I had with a few friends. The restaurant’s cash register attentdent refused to accept my RM50 and I was forced to use all my coins and borrow from my friends. The dinner was supposed to be on me, but it didn’t go through well.

And I thought that was it, until I went to JB today. I woke up early today and immediately packed up and ride my bike to KL to catch a bus to JB. On my way, I withdrawn a few hundreds ringgit for my expenses. The crisis was triggered when I want to pay for my parking. The Puduraya parking attendence didn’t have enough small change for my RM 50 note. I’m not paying like a small amount of RM1, 2 or 3 ringgit. The amount was RM 7.50 and how come they are running a business without small change and it was 8.30am in the morning?

And so, I made a U-turn at the parking lot and went to the nearest petrol station. Then, the same thing happen again. The pump attendence and the whole workers at that station didn’t have small change. Time almost runing out because the bus will be leaving puduraya at 9.00am. Next, I ride my bike to Jln Loke Yu, almost 3 km away and pump a little bit petrol into my bike and got some small change.

After that, I paid for my parking and left my bike at Puduraya to board a bus to JB. After this, I plan to use RM50 notes only at Petrol Stations where they have more smaller denominatios of RM notes to give to there customers since I only fill up my bike’s petrol tank around RM4 to RM 6. It should give me enough smaller denominations to pay to other businesses who don’t have enough money to change for RM50 notes.

The PM and Ex-PM Feuds

A new movie in Malaysia. Just watch it in the TV3 news. By the way, coming soon, a story of a Samseng from port Klang is also hot. Native of Melaka, he's building is the highest in the kampung.