Commercial Ah Longs

With more and more parents all the more concerned about finding 'good' institutions to provide their child with the 'best education', tertiary institutions haven't wasted any time taking advantage of this lucrative money making opportunity.

Their already obscene fees increase year to year, around a 3 to 5% increase, on the basis of 'inflation'. Inflation my arse.

And these commercial Ah Longs don't mind spending that extra amount to 'remind' their customers to pay up. A quick calculation reveals that

Estimated students = 4000
Estimated cost/invoice = RM 0.50
Estimated postage cost/student = RM 0.30
Total cost = RM0.80*4000 = RM3200 <--that is no small amount

They go through the trouble of sending out Invoices, which contain all the necessary payment details.

And, not unlike any other Ah Longs, these commercial Ah Longs charge an 'interest fee' as well.

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That is RM100(A fricken hundred) once I fail to pay up before the 6th of May, and a further RM100 for every subsequent month I don't pay.

What makes these commercial Ah Longs different from their ghetto counterparts is that they have more Marketing sense. There is no mention about the probability of pig heads and red paint appearing on the walls of my house suppose I fail to pay up. This gives a faux(pronounced "foe") feeling of security for the consumers.


Heck, they even have detailed Powerpoint slides, explaining each and every step, so you obviously can't use that but-my-mum-cant-read shit on them.

Rakyat yang Berpatriotik

A few months back I posted something on the Police Force in my post ISA Trend Terbaru!

Nao I'm back with more incriminating, albeit unnecessary evidence of their ineptness.

I was delivering some documents to a particular university's office this afternoon, and I passed by Taylor's University College's newly constructed Police Beat Base, or Pondok Bit. My my was I in for a surprise. What was normally as empty as Jesus' real tomb,
was out-of-the-worldly abuzz with activity.

I took the picture from the first floor behind a glass door so they couldn't see me and 'escort' me away under the Internal Security Act.

There, I have even labelled out in bright red, SIX! officers lepaking around the beat base. And for all we know there could be a further seven, eight, nine and ten officers inside the base playing craps together with their chief OCPD_resized.

Tuan OCPD_resized

There is TWO! policepeople standing beside each stationary motorcycle, presumably 'checking their licenses'. Policeperson number 1 would probably ask for the motorcyclist's license and hand it over to Policeperson number 2 and Policeperson #2 will then hand the license over to Policeperson #3 who is standing beside Policeperson #4 whom I have no focken idea what they're doing standing there for.

So there, I've done justice to the Police Diraja Malaysia! I have helped Syed Hamid Albar justify why Tan Sri Musa Hassan needed SIX! officers handling the beat base. See? I am a good and patriotic rakyat after all....

Tolong jangan ISA saya, Tuan =(