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Today, both my food delivery riders are women

GenY — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 23:00:59 +0800

I have been using food delivery services since the start of MCO, never met a rider/driver who is a woman (except for an awek who is helping her bf).

But today, both my food delivery riders are women. The second one is an awek driving a Honda car - I guess her main gig is e-hailing and food delivery is just a side gig.

And today received a call from a person working for my credit card issuer pestering me to donate to charity - i said no, she kept insisting ... never met a telemarketer so insistent.

Maybe I should buy lottery.

Guess times are tough huh?

Do u regret voting for change in 2018?

GenY — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:06:24 +0800

In light of the current economic and Covid crisis and never ending politics.

I have access to the "letters" email a/c of a media organisation and saw a lot of letters complaining about their economic hardship and calling for end to political squabbles.

I wanted to tell them: If u had not voted for change, there will be no never ending political squabble now.

I became a "mod" liao

GenY — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 00:04:25 +0800

No, not in this forum but at a larger platform.

I didn't ask for the job and it takes up too much of my time .... but ayam already reshaping the section I supervise to more closely reflect my beliefs.

For exp ayam anti-foreign manual workers (female GROs and the like excluded), so I just trashed an article by a human rights activist arguing that we should value foreign workers.

As for politics, let just say I cut here, spike that, haha. A 'Dr' fella got upset with me, contacted my boss. My boss let my decision stand.

Ayam a good content moderator.

Company only pay 50% of salary

GenY — Thu, 07 May 2020 23:08:24 +0800

The 50% also only paid after the department head negotiate with the owners.

And my employer is not a SME, but a famous conglomerate headed by a famous tycoon.

50% not enough to cover my monthly expenses.

Other than trying to look for a new job (extremely difficult right now), what should I do?

1. Dip into emergency reserves
2. Resign and go back to parents' house in hometown.

Chop, chop! Barbers back in business

GenY — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:00:08 +0800

My hair is shaggy too!

M'sia's lockdown already very long when many counties are reopening.

When will the sun shine on me again

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Geneva, April 27, 2020 (AFP) - Barbers were doing a roaring trade among shaggy-haired customers on Monday as Switzerland started to ease restrictions imposed to control the coronavirus pandemic.
The Swiss stopped short of full confinement in emergency measures introduced last month to combat the spread of COVID-19.
But on Monday the country started the first of a three-stage lifting of the restrictions, requiring affected businesses to put in place protection plans for their customers and employees.
Doctors' surgeries, dentists, nursery schools, hairdressers and massage and beauty salons were permitted to reopen, along with hardware stores, garden centres and florists.
In Geneva, hairdressers were up early to get started on the long list of clients seeking a welcome trim.
Wearing a fabric mask and a plastic face shield, Anita Ayma, boss at the Anita Coiffure salon, was working through a 12-hour string of bookings.
Just inside the door, a homemade sign next to a dispenser bottle read: "Please disinfect your hands and put on a mask. Thank you."

- Bookings filling up -

"My regulars are very dear to me but we have to keep our distance and can't kiss upon greeting," Ayma told AFP.
"I'm delighted that we're starting up again. If we don't work, things are dead."
Ayma said she was reliant on the state financial support for businesses forced to close.
Customer Sergey Ostrovsky said: "Super! I'm very happy!", as he ran his hands through his newly-cropped hair.
"The last day before the lockdown, I didn't have time to come. A minute after I heard they were reopening, I booked an appointment," the 44-year-old music professor said.
A nearby Mod's hair branch was doing brisk trade, with busy staff, the phone ringing constantly and pencilled-in bookings rapidly filling up the weeks ahead.
"We've got work on," said hairdresser Ines. "It's busier than a normal Monday. Clients were here as we opened.
"We respect all the rules: two metres between customers, disinfectant, we disinfect each chair after each client."
Every second chair in the salon was left empty to ensure physical distancing.

Wah, pretty Vietmoi selling popiah and chicken

GenY — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:20:23 +0800

RM16.

This is educated Vietmoi, ok? She's works for a blue chip construction company and her partner is a handsome indian dude.

Hair is getting longer and longer

GenY — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:25:29 +0800

Actually I think the govt was right when they initially want to allow barbers to reopen.

But cause of pressure from some quarters ....

Now, everytime I wake up, look in the mirror .... really look like a wild man, like a cave man.

PN govt doing a really good job

GenY — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:53:39 +0800

They are handling the virus better than many countries, including 'developed' ones like US and UK.

And the stock market these days go up even when some other regional/Western markets go down - like during the days of BN rule, when our market is regarded as defensive.

Sure, PN is not perfect .... but overall, they are doing a good job. Syabas

The worst might be over ....

GenY — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 23:48:16 +0800

I mean .... the worst probably over for Spain and Italy. Austria and Iran are easing lockdown restrictions. China is restarting.

US, South Korean, indonesian, Filipino stocks enter technical bull markets liao.

“No Chinese allowed” signs. “Chinese! Out!”

GenY — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 17:35:09 +0800

From: https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2020/...-world#cxrecs_s

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LONDON (Bloomberg): Airlines halt flights from China. Schools in Europe uninvite exchange students. Restaurants in South Korea turn away Chinese customers.

As a deadly virus spreads beyond China, governments, businesses and educational institutions are struggling to find the right response.

Safeguarding public health is a priority.

How to do that without stigmatising the entire population of the country where the outbreak began is the challenge.

With the death toll hitting 170 and the roster of cases climbing above 7,700, worries are growing.

Many global companies with operations in China have asked workers to stay home.

Airlines are curtailing flights to the nation.

Several countries have begun evacuating citizens from the most stricken zone around the city of Wuhan.

Though the vast majority of cases involve people from the central Chinese metropolis or nearby cities, or those who have been in contact with them, people of Asian appearance around the world say they’ve been subject to increased wariness since the disease began spreading.

In some cases, baser emotions have come to the fore.

In South Korea, signs have begun popping up on restaurant windows saying, “No Chinese allowed.”

A Korean casino catering to foreign visitors said it’s no longer accepting groups of tourists from China.

More than half a million people signed a petition, submitted to the government, calling for a ban on visitors from the nearby country of 1.4 billion.

A Chinese woman visiting the Japanese city of Ito on a peninsula south of Tokyo said that a server at a restaurant shouted “Chinese! Out!” at her, according to a recording shared on a Weibo account.

The recording, which included a subsequent phone call to the unnamed eatery, was shared by a reporter from Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV.

A woman who answered the phone at the restaurant said it was refusing customers from China and South-East Asia because the owner was worried about the coronavirus, according to the recording.

“If our owner contracts the virus and dies, whose responsibility is it then?” she said.

Health concerns aside, the reaction in South Korea and Japan to the virus reflects longstanding friction with China, as well as resentment over its growing influence in the region.

That’s even as an influx of visitors from China has boosted neighbouring economies, including South Korea, where tourists surged by a quarter to more than 5.5 million through November from the previous year.

Signs of insensitivity aren’t limited to Asia.

French regional newspaper Courrier Picard sparked outrage with its headline “Yellow Alert” on a front-page story about the coronavirus.

The paper apologised to readers who took to Twitter to condemn the allusion to “Yellow Peril, ” a xenophobic term referring to the peoples of East Asia that dates to the 19th century.

In Denmark, the Chinese embassy called on the country’s Jyllands-Posten newspaper to apologise for an editorial cartoon that depicts China’s flag with virus symbols instead of stars on a red background.

“We feel angry and we feel sad because it’s a kind of insult to our people and to our flag, ” John Liu, secretary-general at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Denmark, said in a television interview.

The paper declined to apologise, citing Denmark’s tradition of freedom of speech.

Those of Chinese descent, but not from China, have also been met with harsh reactions.

In Sri Lanka, a group of tourists from Singapore – a South-East Asian country where the majority of people are of Chinese descent – were barred from climbing local attraction Ella Rock because of their appearance, according to Tucker Chang, 66, one of the tourists.

No one in the group had a history of recent travel to China.

Rising sea levels threaten hundreds of millions

GenY — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:20:35 +0800

Hahaha, blardy Hongkey protesters. I wonder if Penang is at risk?

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/30/world/ri...-sci/index.html

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Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are at risk of losing their homes as entire cities sink under rising seas over the next three decades, according to researchers.
A new study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, found that as the climate crisis intensifies, sea levels globally are expected to rise between two to seven feet (0.6 meters to 2.1 meters) -- and possibly more -- over the course of the 21st century.
The findings are based on new artificial intelligence and data, nearly tripling the previously estimated area and populations under threat.
By 2050, land that is currently home to about 300 million people will fall below the elevation of the average annual coastal flood -- meaning they could face severe floods at least once a year. By 2100, land that is home to 200 million people could sit permanently below the high tide line, rendering those coastal areas all but unlivable.
"The results indicate that, yes, a great deal more people are on vulnerable land than we thought," said Benjamin Strauss, one of the study's co-authors and CEO of non-profit organization Climate Central. He added that these affected regions need to take immediate action to avoid the impending "economic and humanitarian catastrophe."
Entire coastal cities could be wiped out if there aren't enough sea defenses in place. Some 70% of the people at risk of yearly floods and permanent inundation are in eight Asian countries: China, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Japan, according to the study.
China's low-lying big cities are particularly vulnerable, according to a Climate Central press release -- think Shanghai, Tianjin, and Hong Kong. Other Asian cities at risk include Vietnamese capital Hanoi, Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, and the eastern Indian city Kolkata.
The entire southern tip of Vietnam could be flooded, according to Climate Central's projections.

Ah Jib Kor bergambar dengan cute amois from Taylor

GenY — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:58:38 +0800

https://ms-my.facebook.com/najibrazak/video...50375692203920/

Job ad: Salary is RM1k-RM1.5k

GenY — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 08:01:28 +0800

The above is for a part-time job at a job website. Not just one, but several applicants did that.

I put my expected salary as RM8.5k-9k for full-time jobs, but I find that almost every other applicant will put lower figure, even those with years of experience.

I remember an interview when I was a just fresh grad. I'm a degree holder and asked for just RM2k .... but a diploma holder asked for RM900!

WTF, desperate ppl spoiling job market. But I guess all is fair in love and war.

National health insurance scheme

GenY — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 01:33:49 +0800

Even though I have insurance, I support.

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“Whether or not you have money is currently the determinant factor for some diseases, especially cancer, on whether you live or die.”

Azrul Mohd Khalib, Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy CEO
“That’s the reality. It should not be that way for an upper middle income country like Malaysia which has universal health coverage,” Azrul told the conference.

He called for a compulsory national health insurance scheme, with workers making a monthly contribution based on a sliding scale linked to individual income and age.

Azrul suggested a contribution rate of between four and six percent of one’s individual income. The government, he said, can subsidise those earning minimum wage or less.

“People can even keep their own insurance, and that could be in competition with the national health insurance. It could lead to premiums decreasing because you have an active system in the free market.”

Source:
https://codeblue.galencentre.org/2019/09/05...ed-study-shows/

China rockets can hit Singapore

GenY — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 21:44:19 +0800

Wow, me so surprising.

On a side note, I chated with a new FB "friend", a PRC girl with excellent England ... but I sked she try to scam me.

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If an armed conflict broke out between Beijing and Washington, China’s hi-tech ballistic missiles would likely cripple the United States’ military bases and naval fleet across the Western Pacific region within hours, a new report by Australia-based researchers has said.

One of the report’s starkest findings was on the prowess of the PLA Rocket Force.
According to the authors’ independent calculations, the force has fielded an estimated 1,500 short-range ballistic missiles, 450 medium-range missiles, 160 intermediate-range missiles and hundreds of long-range ground-launched cruise missiles.
These conventional ballistic missiles are able to make precision strikes on targets as far away from the mainland as Singapore – where the US has a major logistics facility – as well as mammoth American bases in South Korea and Japan.
China is also in possession of so-called “carrier killer” missiles such as the DF-21D, which can hit moving US aircraft carriers at a range of up to 1,500km (932 miles)

Sos:
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/art...us-forces-event

College girl blocked guy she met for a date

GenY — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 00:33:14 +0800

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#B2124
I have been chatting with this man on JustDating App. He has been very friendly and warm and I thought he will be a good guy once….but he is not. After a month of chatting, I decided to meet him for movie and I even chose the horror movie Annabelle because I can let him touch me when I acted scared. The nightmare came when I saw his car, he is only driving Axia (thank god not Kancil anymore) and his car is clean but he is very shy so it feels like I am in GRAB. I had to find some topics to chat even connect his bluetooth radio to put some nice music so we won’t be that awkward!! I was worried I need to pay my own movie ticket but actually he paid for me…

I blocked him after the date, few months later I found out he bought the car by his own money and he stayed in a bungalow around Damansara and he got his own business. I tried to find me on the app again but I cant, later today I saw him on my Facebook, its a picture with my friend and they are together….WTF//// zoubou.

Source: Taylors University Confessions on Facebook
(the bold highlights are mine)

My fren salary around RM5k

GenY — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:09:04 +0800

My fren, already early 40s, salary around RM5k, still only an executive, single child waiting to receive inheritance from parents.

He responded to several SB ads and met them to discuss terms. Several amoi (ask RM4-5k) and one awek (ask rM2.5k).

He: Should I accept their offer?

Me: No. You are not rich enough. At least wait until you receive inheritance.

He: f%*& You also not rich!

(edited RM5 to RM5k)

‘High likelihood of human civilisation

GenY — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 03:25:24 +0800

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Human civilisation as we know it may have already entered its last decades, a worrying new report examining the likely future of our planet’s habitability warns.

The increasingly disastrous impacts of the climate crisis, coupled with inaction to tackle it are sending our planet down a bleak path towards an increasingly chaotic world which could overwhelm societies around the globe, the report’s authors contend.

The paper, produced by the Melbourne-based think tank the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, is presented by the former chief of the Australian Defence Forces and retired Royal Australian Navy Admiral Chris Barrie.

I thought China was smart

GenY — Thu, 09 May 2019 17:54:30 +0800

China overplayed its hand with Trump on trade, and it could cost them dearly
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/09/asia/chi...intl/index.html

I've taken part in a few minor negotiations and nothing angers me more than when the other side tried to change what was already agreed on.

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What exactly inspired Beijing's broadside is unclear -- a constant peril of dealing with such an opaque political system -- but it appears to be based on a misreading of statements and actions by Trump that he was concerned about the state of the US economy and would be willing to make concessions.
Last week, Trump laid into the US Federal Reserve on Twitter, echoing criticism he made of its chairman Jerome Powell last year, while praising Chinese policy.
"China is adding great stimulus to its economy while at the same time keeping interest rates low. Our Federal Reserve has incessantly lifted interest rates, even though inflation is very low, and instituted a very big dose of quantitative tightening. We have the potential to go up like a rocket if we did some lowering of rates, like one point, and some quantitative easing," Trump said in a series of tweets.
"Yes, we are doing very well at 3.2% GDP, but with our wonderfully low inflation, we could be setting major records (and) at the same time, make our National Debt start to look small!"
Beijing's perception of US weakness was likely buoyed by its own improving economic situation, with solid first-quarter growth and renewed commitment to Xi's trademark Belt and Road Initiative, which was feted at a conference in the Chinese capital last month attended by dozens of world leaders.
The assumption that this position of renewed strength would be enough to make Trump blink seems wildly miscalculated, however. Not only is the US economy not nearly as weak as some in Beijing appear to believe, this type of last minute renegotiation seems almost specifically designed to infuriate Trump.
The US President has already shown himself willing to walk away from deals when they don't go his direction -- storming out of his second meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, derailing months of rapprochement between the two nuclear powers.
That he would respond equally poorly to strong arm tactics on trade would have been obvious to any longterm observers of Trump except, it turns out, those in Beijing.

Now it looks like China has to lay back and let the Orange One screw it ...... too bad the shit will hit the rest of us

Donald Trump turns the screw
https://www.ft.com/content/ff22ab50-714e-11...5c-6eeb837566c5

If u are C or I, what's your plan now?

GenY — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 00:35:46 +0800

I'm toying with the idea of getting a job overseas.

Really sked alcohol will be banned one day .... sometimes when I can't sleep, alcohol helps me sleep.

I'm also very liberal and like naughty things, and this country will get more and more conservative.

For members of the minorities who can't leave .... i saw some are reaching out the oppo supporters on social media, and they are welcomed by most with open arms.