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Didnt know rosmah is on vice documentary

mooney — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 11:44:09 +0800

Implantable collamer lens

mooney — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 12:29:15 +0800

Anyone do this procedure before?

Can share your surgery experience and where you did it? Thanks

I sleep early tonight. Goodnight guys

mooney — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 23:48:36 +0800

Yes I'm that bored

Which one is better?

mooney — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 19:53:59 +0800

Korean
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Cantonese
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Tukar IC baru

mooney — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 14:33:24 +0800

There's a thread that mentions changing to new IC with 2 photos.

I just learnt that Msian ICs now have 2 photos

I also read that there is a fine for not changing to new ICs

Are we now required to change our IC?

Goodnight everybody

mooney — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 23:04:03 +0800

Sleep tight and wake up bright in the morning light

Why BN macai still so angry?

mooney — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 22:13:12 +0800

So I was browsing around looking at some BN macai's FB...

I don't know what's more ironic, the comment or the poster.

[FB]https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10160635823905296&set=a.10150648380190296.690989.517650295&type=3[/FB]

Why are you not smoking?

mooney — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:16:38 +0800

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CHINA A PILLAR OF STRENGTH IN QATAR’S FIGHTBACK

mooney — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 18:02:28 +0800

Its Middle Eastern neighbours tried to choke the small Gulf state, but in effect forced Qatar to find creative solutions, new trade routes, and push reforms at a faster pace

There aren’t that many visitors at the “Breath and Life” exhibition on ancient traditional Chinese medicine at Doha’s sprawling Katara Cultural Village. It’s Ramadan, the middle of the day and 44 degrees outside – there aren’t that many visitors anywhere in the Qatari capital. It will pick up later in the day, says an attendant, as many are drawn especially by the free diagnosis offered by Chinese practitioners at the show.

China is just what the doctor ordered for Qatar after its neighbours turned the heat up on the small Persian Gulf emirate a year ago for its alleged support of Islamist groups and ties with Iran. From snapping up Qatar’s energy supplies and filling in with the merchandise that used to come from its neighbours, to building the country’s main football stadium for the 2022 World Cup, the Asian giant has been a pillar of strength in Qatar’s fightback.

A land, air and sea blockade by immediate neighbours Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, along with Egypt, threw the gas-rich economy into a tailspin last June. Real estate prices plunged and supermarket shelves emptied out in anticipation of a food shortage. Non-oil economic growth rate slowed to about 4 per cent last year from 5.6 per cent in 2016, while central bank reserves fell from US$31 billion to US$15 billion.

“The sole land border on the south was completely blocked off by Saudi Arabia. Some 90 per cent of our goods, including food, water and medicine came from that side,” said Sheikh Saif bin Ahmed Al Thani, director of the government communications office.

Spunky Qatar refused to give in to the demands of the Arab blockaders, which included shutting down its Al Jazeera television channel and scaling down ties with Iran. Instead, the peninsular country with 2.5 million people led by a 38-year-old emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, rose to the challenge. It opened new trade routes and found new suppliers, upped its exports, drew on its formidable cash reserves to ease the crisis, and started to change investment and labour laws to rev up the economy. It also kick-started a US$200 billion infrastructure binge, and innovatively diversified into new fields to meet import needs, including airlifting 10,000 cows from the US and starting an ultra-modern dairy business in the middle of a desert to reach self-sufficiency in milk.

The results are showing. According to the International Monetary Fund, Qatar’s economy is expected to grow 2.6 per cent this year, compared to 2.1 per cent last year. International credit rating agency Fitch this week revised Qatar’s outlook to “stable” from “negative”. The country’s foreign reserves have now climbed to US$17.7 billion, says HSBC, as a result of improvements in trade balance. Its trade surplus has risen 50 per cent over last year.

China, whose trade with Qatar rose 36 per cent last year, has played a stellar role in this turnaround. While Qatar’s exports to China jumped over 60 per cent last year compared to 2016, the Asian giant has now replaced the US as the top source of Qatar’s imports, accounting for nearly 15 per cent.

“Gas imports by China last year rose 46 per cent. Qatar contributed much of that extra supply,” said the Minister of Energy and Industry, Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada. “This year China will increase gas imports by another 25 per cent or so, and Qatar is ready to meet the additional demand.”
Already the world’s biggest importer of crude oil and coal, China is on track this year to overtake Japan as the top importer of natural gas. Being the largest producer of liquefied natural gas makes Qatar an extremely important country for energy-hungry China.

Qatar opened an offshore yuan centre in Doha in 2015. Its stock exchange is planning a roadshow in China this year to attract investors. And for the last three years, it has been holding a “Made in China Exhibition” in the capital. The two countries have also exempted pre-entry visa requirements for each other’s citizens.

“China is one of our biggest trading partners. We are part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and we are a founder of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. In 2015, we raised our relationship to strategic levels,” said the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.

Defence experts detected the presence of a Chinese-made short-range ballistic missile system at a military parade in December. There has been no official announcement of the sale. Asked for confirmation on the Chinese missile system, the minister merely said: “We have an ongoing defence agreement with China.”

Newly built Hamad container port 40km south of Doha, 14 times the size of the Doha port it is to replace, is driving much of Qatar’s increasing trade with China and the rest of the world as it goes about breaking its dependence on its neighbours. The US$7.4 billion port, partly built by China Harbour Engineering Company, recently started two routes from China, said port company Mwani Qatar’s CEO Captain Abdulla Al Khanji. Bringing in machines, boilers and electrical equipment, these new trading lines are helping Qatar diversify its economy by boosting its own manufacturing capacity.

But rather than alternative trading routes and self-sufficiency in goods supplies, the beleaguered Middle Eastern nation’s biggest transformation as a result of the blockade go much deeper, bringing about sweeping changes in the way it works. Just last week, Qatar approved a draft law to give foreigners permanent residency status, in a major labour reform. Qatar has a migrant labour force of nearly 2 million.

The latest IMF “mission” report notes: “The authorities are advancing a structural reform agenda to improve the business environment, with the diplomatic rift having provided impetus to speed up such reforms.”

“We are the first country to get 5G,” said bin Saleh Al Sada, the energy minister, proudly flashing his mobile from across the table.”

“The blockade has forced us to change many laws and regulations to help attract not just capital, but also talent and technology. When we started diversifying years ago, hydrocarbon represented 60 per cent of the economy and the rest 40 per cent. Now they have swapped roles as the rest – construction, tourism, services and financial – now account for 60 per cent.”

The blockade that was meant to kill Qatar could well have been the shot in the arm it needed.

http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/...t-arab-blockade

What happened to /k fight?

mooney — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:41:29 +0800

What happened to [@JIUHWEI] and [@wild_card_my] match yesterday?

I prepare popcorn, ready to watch them slug it out already le. Jangan ini macam bagi saya blue balls bro

Budak raver dipukul

mooney — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 07:36:59 +0800

[fb]https://m.facebook.com/306762846180461/posts/801146793408728/[/fb]

Kadir Jasin to be investigated for sedition

mooney — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 14:12:08 +0800

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KUALA LUMPUR: Police are investigating veteran newsman Datuk A. Kadir Jasin for sedition and defamation, says Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun.

The Inspector-General of Police said that three police reports have been lodged against Kadir after he had posted on his personal blog that some RM257mil was spent for the upkeep and personal expenditure of Sultan Muhammad V in the 16 months since he became the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

“So far, three reports have been lodged against him, in Selangor, the Klang Valley and Kelantan.

“Along with sedition and defamation, he is also being investigated under Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 for improper use of network facilities or network service,” Fuzi told a press conference at Menara TM here Thursday after launching the Op Selamat 13/2018 campaign for the upcoming Hari Raya celebrations.

Kadir, who is the spokesman for the Council of Eminent Persons (CEP) looking into economic and other reforms formed by Pakatan Harapan after it took over Putrajaya in GE14, is also a Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia supreme council member.

His blog post was also criticised by PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who said, “While I support democracy and freedom of expression, what was said was inappropriate.”

Anwar said that there should be some decorum when expressing views as those singled out for criticism were unable to clarify such opinions.

“We have worked very hard to get the Malay Rulers to appreciate this new administration” and this was “unhealthy,” he told reporters after a closed-door meeting with PKR assemblymen and MPs on Wednesday (May 6).

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018...d-for-sedition/

Malaysia ke arah kuasa besar dunia

mooney — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 12:15:02 +0800

https://twitter.com/ladymissazira/status/10...8587982848?s=21

https://twitter.com/cwkc93/status/1003938702354026497?s=21

#NotMyPM

mooney — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 20:40:53 +0800

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Although I do not have any Twitter or Facebook, the hashtag #NotMyPM resonates deeply with me. I find the newly installed administration just as repulsive as how the ‘popular vote’, i.e. Dapsters and Pakatuns, had found the old regime similarly despicable.

And athough I accept the legitimacy of the May 10 vote as “the verdict of the people”, I nonetheless consider a tyranny of the majority has spoken, given the mob behaviour of Harapan supporters.

#NotMyPM Tun Mahathir Mohamad is the legitimately appointed prime minister — I acknowledge this fact. But at the same time, I still view him to be just as objectionable as the previously opposition (but today ruling party) supporters viewed Najib Razak.

…

It’s still very early and sentiments raw following the tsunami. Its seismic force of hate that unleashed and swept away BN has yet to abate but Harapan deserves no honeymoon, nonetheless. After all, they’ve been agitating against the deposed BN government 24/7 for years and years.

Time now for Harapan to prove how they will perform better than BN from the get-go. I urge dissenters – the millions of us who pangkah Dacing (or PAS) two days ago – to closely observe the perangai of these Great Hopers who have just gotten their first taste of power after six decades of uninterrupted Alliance-BN rule.

…

Yup, the tables are turned now. Those who called themselves “second class citizens” have become the mightly rulers who can’t wait to move into Putrajaya.

From yesterday onwards, Dapsters and Pakatuns are the new establishment. You’re no longer the opposition, so stop with the endless criticisms and condemnations, and move on please. Start governing pronto. There are 10 lofty Harapan promises to be fulfilled within the next 100 days.

In a nutshell, move on, will ya. The levers of power have fallen unequivocally into Harapan hands. The first thing Big Chief Kerala has promised to do is secure Anwar Ibrahim’s royal pardon. Over the years, Dr M has insisted that jailing Anwar (sodomy1 under the Mahathir watch) was the correct and moral thing to do.

Then when Tun M allied himself with PKR and DAP, he recanted. He made a U-turn and said that his earlier judgment of Anwar’s unfitness for office was an error.

…

Harapan is a trifecta of parties that have distrusted each other for ages and which have stabbed their partners in the back as happened with the thwarted Kajang Move.

These parties have also flip-flopped shamelessly — was it a mistake or not a mistake to have jailed Anwar? Was it a mistake or not a mistake to have crowned Mahathir as the Father of Racism? Was it a mistake or not a mistake to have claimed that Umno (then led by Mahathir) was the fount of all evil? Was it a mistake or not a mistake to accuse DAP as being anti-Islam?

The above are allegations which Kit Siang/DAP and Mahathir and his Umno remnants have hurled at each other various times. On the other hand, BN components have never displayed such strong animus against each other.

…

Everybody seems to agree that Malaysia is extremely polarized. There is one side, and there is the side opposing. We all have to select our side.

I have no regrets whatsover about picking BN — the losing side, temporarily, of our political divide. I exercised my judicious judgment as a member of the public on my choice of a government which is not and never will be DAP.

Those Dapsters embracing Mahathirism for the sake of “Ini kali lah” had instead suspended their judgment – their longstanding, all-encompassing hatred of ‘Mahafiraun’ – because they’re power crazed. They would stop at nothing and are willing to do anything to acquire power.

Now that they’ve successfully gained power, it’s only a matter of time (and sooner rather than later) that daggers will be drawn among the DAP, PKR and PBBM Machiavellites. What a spectacle to behold.

#NotMyPM

source: https://helenang.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/n...ypm/#more-72519

TLDR:
- PH won by being voted in by tyranny of majority
- BN voters must observe the attitude of PH
- Those who called themselves “second class citizens” have become the mightly rulers who can’t wait to move into Putrajaya.
- PH should stop criticising and move on.
- PH party components is a group of enemies coming together in an alliance, unlike BN
- Author is BN supporter and will never vote DAP.
- DAP supporter compromised by forming alliance with mahathir because DAP supporter gila kuasa
- Author says 100% the 3 parties in PH will infighting gao gao, and she got popcorn ready

For the sake of ease I will quote below the meaning of tyranny of majority for those who don't know

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tyranny-of-the-majority : (politics) A situation in which a government or other authority democratically supported by a majority of its subjects makes policies or takes actions benefiting that majority, without regard for the rights or welfare of the rest of its subjects.

Recently /k rise in racial tension due to politics

mooney — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:01:57 +0800

So for the few minutes you read this thread, let us forget about our differences and thank our parents for their countless sacrifice in their struggle to provide us with the best they think we deserve.

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Kenot sleep

mooney — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 01:10:21 +0800

Send help

WHAT WILL YOU DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY?

mooney — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:24:26 +0800

Hypothetical situation if your countrymen is split into two factions vying for power over a nation. As a Malaysian, what is the most you would do for the side you believe in?

I'm just asking because I'm curious what the mindset of the people in this forum are about this topic.

where is kiwi?

mooney — Tue, 17 May 2016 18:58:53 +0800

mana kiwi?

What genre is this?

mooney — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 10:03:21 +0800

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Come share nice songs

How fast can you type?

mooney — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:07:17 +0800

http://10fastfingers.com/typing-test/english

come post your results guys. lets see who is the real keyboard warrior in /k

MINE!