- The Tarik starmag-feedback subsidies are OK

- This was a counter article to one which surprisingly appeared 2 weeks ago in this Newspaper which criticised government policy of subsidising petrol and of opposition policy to subsidise it more. The Newspaper is effectively owned by one of the governing parties.

- The article has a poor argument technique throughout e.g. - 1. Well if the government has the money it wastes it. I say - Two wrongs don't make a right -the issue of the government wasting money is a different issue and is not really solved by denying it money

- 2. subsidies help the poor.
- If we gave each poor person 100Rm that helps them, but if at the same time we give rich people 2000Rm then that's unfair. But that's what a fuel subsidy does it benefits the big gas guzzlers and big consumer. The farmer walking to his field gains nothing. It's a very inefficient way of transferring money to the poor.

- What wooly thinking !

- I stopped off on the way back at Chow Kit Market and bought tapei, tapei ubi and Lemang and got caught in the heavy heavy rain.

- I flicked through a book about "the culture of Malaysia"
- it said "Chinese restaurants don't usually bother to translate the menu, often it only written in Chinese characters. Even when a stranger arrives Chinese people will usually continue a conversation in their own language so the visitor doesn't know what they are talking about. Malaysian's find this very rude. "

- Outrageous racism in a book.. aren't ethnic Chinese Malaysians ?

- Also surely since most ethnic Indians and Chinese speak good English it's less likely than with ethnic Malays who rarely can converse in English.

- There was also a new probably illegal rightwing newspaper "the Criteria" full of nutcase ideas. It's not worth talking about as I guess like any nutcase rightwing publication it's full of factual errors, ranting and a poor understanding of logic just like the UK Sun. Like it's editorial all Dutch and Danish companies should be boycotted :

- oh well that'll help reconciliation and bring about more peace in the world.. NOT.
- For a start what about Dutch/DanishMuslim owned businesses or Muslim employees.

- I had passed the UE3 Mall many times, but no one ever talks about it and the bus never stops nearby cos it's a highway. So it was a bit difficult to walk to. Actually if you walk from Jalan Pudu it's 1Km.

- Wow it's weird it's like a mall after the end of a nuclear war. It's a perfectly good building with a great view of the city, but no normal shops any more just lots of Chinese discount emporiums and speciality T-shops. The cinemas closed down, but the bowling alley was very popular with Malays. There was a large second hand furniture shop as well.

- They said a Malay business owns it, but hasn't done anything for 10 years. It's like someone, built it then died just before completion. It could be a very good mall. It wouldn't take much to fix up the transport connections; it's 200m in a straight line from Milijara LRT, but no bridge or pathway has been built, the only way to cross the highway is a muddy tunnel. The other side of the building it's less than 1Km from Maluri LRT. Traffic leaving town can drive in, but traffic coming the other way can? until the muddy tunnel is completed. So I guess the 11 bus could bring you from town, but couldn't take you back. It's as if the mall owner fell out with the city government, there are no bus connections at all. It would have been a good place for a hypermarket, but now there are ones on nearby highways.- Other blogs said it used to have a supermarket called Xtra, but this closed 3 years ago.

- Somebody innovative could turn it into something good like an exhibition venue and Night Mall or the Chinese focused Mall for KL.

sorry guys we wee a little unlucky while were talking at the caf?talking the Indonesian Performer had finished the show the audience did their clap clap clap. And they had opened the reception room so after you left and I went upstairs there was free veggie nasi/mee goreng and free Anchor Beer so ..I drank some on your behalf ..hee hee