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TNG Changing Login ID

SpiderMon68 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:01:16 +0800

Has any /ktards experience this b4? TNG Web Portal - not mobile app

I requested for a refund and immediately after that I could not login with my usual login ID (email).

I called up the call centre and the agent said my login was changed - without my authorization.

This is damn dangerous because any of the staff could change and transfer funds without your knowledge.

What the Asean Summit’s road closures

SpiderMon68 — Thu, 29 May 2025 08:50:02 +0800

https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/other/what-t...f3d5d47ca&ei=39

From Boo Jia Cher

The past several days, something remarkable has happened in Kuala Lumpur. As dignitaries descended on the city for the Asean Summit, major roads were closed. Public servants were told to work from home. People were urged to use public transport, shift their travel schedules, or avoid unnecessary driving. Many predicted chaos and gridlock.

Yet, a viral video told a different story: the Federal Highway, usually a choked artery of the Klang Valley, was smooth and clear.

What we witnessed was not a miracle. It was a phenomenon known to transport planners around the world: reduced demand.

Just as building more roads encourages more people to drive—a concept called “induced demand”—limiting road availability can lead people to adapt, by changing travel times, routes, or even choosing not to drive at all. And the result? Less traffic.

This is the traffic solution Klang Valley has been skirting around for years.

Instead, we’ve gone down the exact opposite path. We’ve allowed our cities to sprawl around the car: endless expressways, flyovers and road widenings. And every time traffic gets worse, our answer has been to build more roads. Meanwhile, gridlock remains a daily reality.

And somehow, officials from the works ministry continue to approve more highways as the cure. Seriously?

The Asean Summit gave us a live demo of what actually works: reduce the need and attractiveness of driving, and traffic goes down. So why aren’t we doing this every day?

Here’s what we should be doing:

Tear down highways, especially those slicing through our urban fabric.
Narrow wide arterial roads in city centres to prioritise walkability and public life.
Implement congestion pricing for motor vehicles entering key areas during peak hours.
Raise parking fees and limit parking availability in dense areas.
Phase out fuel subsidies, which artificially lower the cost of driving.
At the same time, we must seriously boost public transport. During the summit, RapidKL increased train frequencies during peak hours. So, they can do it! What’s stopping them from doing it year-round?

We should be pouring funds into buying more buses, enforcing bus lanes, upgrading train infrastructure, and ensuring high-quality maintenance.

And let’s not forget the first and last mile: we need shaded walkways, safe pedestrian crossings, and dedicated cycling paths in every neighbourhood and around every station.

Yes, it’s politically unpopular—but it works.

Many Malaysians, understandably, are deeply attached to their cars. Decades of car-centric urban planning, and a lack of real alternatives, have left us little choice and motivation to try alternatives.

Changing this will be hard. But other cities have done it, and they’re reaping the benefits:

Paris removed space for cars, expanded bike lanes, and banned vehicles in parts of the city. Now, air quality and public life have drastically improved.

London introduced congestion pricing and invested in cycling and transit. Traffic dropped and public transport usage soared.
Seoul tore down a highway to revive the Cheonggyecheon stream and in the process, improved local climate and reduced car usage. Traffic improved as well, contrary to what everyone predicted.

New York converted entire streets like Times Square into pedestrian plazas, which boosted local businesses and made the city more liveable.
These weren’t easy decisions. They faced backlash. But in the long run, they transformed

Malays in S'pore trying to speak [fixed]

SpiderMon68 — Fri, 23 May 2025 10:27:51 +0800

Amazing to see a few of them struggle to speak Malay

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Jessie Mei Li

SpiderMon68 — Sun, 11 May 2025 12:17:32 +0800

[YOUTUBE]PGyS7DB5OFw[/YOUTUBE]

Just watched her movie in Netflix Havoc. Can speak canto, looks wife material. Ape lagi mau wei

Young Malays Reject Equal Rights

SpiderMon68 — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:23:53 +0800

Young Malays Reject Equal Rights: “We Need Our Privileges

Story by Fernando Fong

In a revealing snapshot of Malaysia’s racial divide, 73% of young Malays have voted to maintain their special privileges – effectively endorsing unequal treatment of their fellow citizens in a country where they form 60% of the 32 million population.

The Merdeka Center’s recent survey of 1,605 young people aged 18 to 30 lays bare an uncomfortable truth.

While respondents across all ethnicities were evenly split on equal rights, with 48% supporting equality and 49% favouring special privileges, the breakdown among Malay respondents tells a different story.

An overwhelming 73% backed continuing bumiputera privileges, with only 24% supporting equal rights for all Malaysians.

Defending Inequality
“I wouldn’t be where I am without bumiputera rights,” says Aidil Azmady, 23, an engineering student at Universiti Kuala Lumpur Malaysia France Institute (UniKL MFI).

Living in Bangi, Selangor, a Malay-majority enclave near Kuala Lumpur, Aidil has few friends from other races and views these special privileges as “citizen’s rights” that should be maintained.

“I studied in a private college before – the fees are not affordable for Malay students,” he said.

In the northern state of Kedah, 30-year-old padi farmer Syakir Hamzah offers another perspective from rural Malaysia.

Working his family’s one-hectare rice field on Malay reserve land, he earns barely RM950 monthly.

For him, these privileges aren’t about advantage but survival.

His land, protected by affirmative action policies, has been in his family for generations.

Privilege By Design
This stance effectively endorses a system where university admissions, housing rates, government positions, and business opportunities are allocated based on ethnicity rather than merit.

While defenders frame it as protection for disadvantaged communities, critics see it as institutionalized inequality that divides modern Malaysia.

The survey findings appear to reflect deeper concerns about economic security and cultural heritage rather than racial prejudice.

Young Malays consistently express concern about maintaining Bumiputera representation and protecting disadvantaged members of their community.

However, after over half a century of affirmative action, the policy’s effectiveness remains questionable.

Nationwide Sentiment
From Melaka, where over 70% of the population is Malay/Muslim, to the bustling streets of Kuala Lumpur, where diverse communities intersect, the sentiment remains surprisingly consistent among young Malays.

Their strong support for continued privileges suggests Malaysia’s racial divide may persist well into the future, even as the country aspires to compete in an increasingly merit-based global economy.

The findings present a challenging paradox for Malaysia’s future: how can a nation progress while its majority youth population actively supports unequal treatment based on ethnicity?

As one young respondent put it, these privileges are seen as “birthright” – a perspective that raises serious questions about Malaysia’s path toward true economic competitiveness and social cohesion.

Is Tues pubic holiday?

SpiderMon68 — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:01:00 +0800

Just nak tanya for planning purposes.

Death on train tracks Sydney (no vids)

SpiderMon68 — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 15:09:46 +0800

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-21/nsw-...ities/104123800

A father and toddler have died after a pram rolled onto train tracks in Sydney's south on Sunday.

Emergency services were called to Carlton Railway Station at about 12.25pm after reports the pram, carrying two twin girls, had rolled from the platform onto the path of an oncoming train.

Police officers were on the scene two-to-three minutes after witnesses called triple-0 and were able to grab one of the twins.

However, a two-year-old girl and a 40-year-old man trying to rescue his daughters died at the scene.

"Emergency services responded quickly and saw the pram under the train and could hear crying coming from underneath the train," said Superintendent Paul Dunstan from the St George Police Area Command.

Superintendent Dunstan described the father's acts of trying to save his children's lives as "incredibly brave and heroic".

"He's just gone into parent mode and tried to save his two young daughters … and in doing so, it's cost his life."

He said the mother was "obviously very traumatised" but was being supported by the local Indian community.

RIP

CrowdStrike - worldwide IT outage

SpiderMon68 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:26:43 +0800

We are seeing reports of nationwide Windows outages, with users reporting seeing the Blue Screen of Death error messages across banking institutions, supermarkets and media companies including the ABC.

An email sent around the ABC, seen by Guardian Australia, says Windows terminals across the country are experiencing blue screens of death, causing issues with some TV studios, and some radio studios are offline.

It appears to be larger than just Australia and is affecting Windows PCs globally.

The cause is currently unconfirmed, but cybersecurity software firm Crowdstrike has reported blue screens of death and says the cause is currently under investigation.

Guardian Australia has heard that it may have been a software update issue with Crowdstrike but is seeking to confirm with the company directly and also seeking comment from Microsoft.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/...-cost-of-living

Does December feel like a long ass Friday

SpiderMon68 — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 17:14:51 +0800

Every time start of December, customers go on leave, school holidays and work slow down for me. 1-24 Dec feels like a Friday, kerja sikit, main sikit, lepak sikit.

25-Dec to 1-Jan is super long weekend

Poor retail fellas will be busy lah, all the way till CNY non stop

Dr drugs patients, molest (NZ)

SpiderMon68 — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 08:58:31 +0800

SOS

KUALA LUMPUR – A Malaysian doctor who was convicted of drugging patients before abusing them in New Zealand has been deported from the country after being released from serving five years in prison.

David Kang Huat Lim who served at a Hastings clinic sedated four men before sexually assaulting them by rubbing their genitals.

According to a report by The New Zealand Herald, the 46-year-old Malaysian, who now identifies as a female, serves a deportation order at the end of a five-year sentence on June 1.

David received medical training in Scotland before arriving in Hawke’s Bay, Napier in 2006 to begin medical practice.

Following sentencing, David had been declined parole on four occasions since 2019.

The disbarred doctor was sentenced to five years’ jail in August 2017 after a jury found her guilty of five charges of disabling or stupefying and five charges of indecent assault on a male over 16.

In 2018, the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal stripped Lim of a licence to practice in New Zealand, censuring and ordering her to pay NZ$4,380 (RM12,212) in costs.

David is also barred from returning to New Zealand following a decision by a parole board. – The Vibes, August 3, 2022.

Shocks - Teins vs Bilsteins pls comment

SpiderMon68 — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:58:21 +0800

Any specific experience selecting between the 2 brands for replacement shocks?

Use case: daily driver
Urban traffic: 90%
Hway: 10%
Looking for : stability and safety, improved handling to replace original shocks which are dead
Lowering: No, not required
Adjustable: not required
Tyres: R18/225/40

I tried looking up comparisons between the 2 and cant find. Happy to hear any experience if you have compared between the 2 brands.

WTS High End Macbook Pro RM8,000

SpiderMon68 — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 09:23:14 +0800

Item(s):

Package includes: 14-inch MacBook Pro, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, boxing, accessories. Purchased at RM8,799.

Price: RM8,000 (!!!NOTICE!!!: Sellers are required to display the exact selling prices of their products. Failure to do so will result in the deletion of the topic)

Warranty:Apple Warranty, unit is only 1 week old

Dealing method:COD, meet up

Location:KL, Glenmarie

Contact method/details: ‭+60 12 389 8833‬, Mr Tan - whatsApp, call, SMS
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Item(s) conditions:Excellent, brand new 1 week old. Paperwork, receipts all available

Picture: See below

Reason for sale:Company does not support MacBooks (sux), only Windows based machines

Hujan KL

SpiderMon68 — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 15:50:57 +0800

Sure jam like sheit one

Someone reported to me Jln Tun Razak 1 lane closed near Jln Ampang underpass

22 Jan: KL Lockdown #TangkapAzamBaki Rally

SpiderMon68 — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 08:28:28 +0800

Media release by @TangkapAzamBaki organizers

Stay away from KL, if true. Dah bagi warning, dont complain jgn persoal

Help/advice needed: Someone else is using my plate

SpiderMon68 — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:26:41 +0800

Any advice greatly appreciated how, where to report someone else dup my car plate.

I'm living in KL, but camera caught a Mercedes E Klass using my same number plate in JB.

Where do I report this?

3G shutdown failed

SpiderMon68 — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:57:06 +0800

Anyone experiencing the same? Frustrating as I'm working from home, being reachable is essential for me.

I'm on Maxis network but I'm sure every other users are affected as well. Bad bad planning

Bye bye FDI

SpiderMon68 — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 10:09:45 +0800

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/...bout-joe-biden/

PETALING JAYA: A former deputy foreign affairs minister has criticised PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang over his comments on the new administration in the United States.

Marzuki Yahya, who served as deputy foreign minister in the previous Pakatan Harapan government, said Hadi’s remarks were “improper” more so when he was a member of a government that was not chosen by the people.

Hadi, who is Malaysia’s special envoy to the Middle East, had said having a new president in the White House was meaningless for Muslim countries as President Joe Biden will continue with Zionist-influenced policies.

He had also said the only difference between Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump was Biden’s softer and more diplomatic approach.

Denzel Washington vs Zakir Nair

SpiderMon68 — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 14:39:40 +0800

Movie trailer here

[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/4iqjwoRHAV8[/YOUTUBE]

Cant wait to see BN/UMNO press conference

SpiderMon68 — Thu, 10 May 2018 10:27:48 +0800

Show show show

Anyone got statement from DSAI?

SpiderMon68 — Thu, 10 May 2018 09:14:04 +0800

He must be very very happy man