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By David Lang

The following stories may fire your imagination, pique your interest. Some say 1MDB is Malaysia's Sovereign Wealth fund; to others they asked what wealth fund when its total capitalization is just One million ringgit? But, then again, if you think you can look down on the pet idea of the Malaysian prime minister, think again. His idea has the potential of turning the now world famous - or shall we say, infamous - 1Malaysia Development Berhad into a giant corporation you can ever imagine - even bigger than Bill Gate's Microsoft! At least, it could be, if the original course is stayed. It was supposed to inspire Malaysians to think big besides advance growth, according to its slogans screaming out of giant bill boards throughout the country. 'Backed' by the finance ministry who owns it - which means money will never be the problem - it can only succeed. But..it didn't. It failed! That's why it may have piqued many people's curiosity. How can a company flush with cash and can borrow any amount (billions) anytime could fail? Well, this may be in line with your thinking. People have seen since its inception - I mean after its name was changed in 1999 from Trengganu Investment Authority (TIA) to the present - it hasn't done any business! I have used present tense deliberately. It hasn't done any business yet. I mean if you are in business you need to make profit or find ways to make profit. Or close shop. Oh, I had heard about their filings of tax returns and hiring of a couple of internationally known auditors to sign off on their balance sheets; but these concerned only the company's borrowings and interests to be paid. Two massive bonds were issued to the tune of $7 billions. To buy up power plants. Again I want to say if you are in business to make money even investing in independent Power Plants, it should be done with the view to making a profit. The decision may be long term or short term, it doesn't matter, it has to make money, or no deal. May be they have done the right thing. Maybe luck was not on their side. Still, the amount is staggering. I didn't know having or managing so much money can be a problem! But many - especially the Malays - have not given up hope yet. Yes, may be the durians are just ripening; may be they need time and may fall soon!




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Malaysia's Vision 2020

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Malaysia is supposed to be on its way to becoming a developed nation, by the year 2020. Will she make it (in less than five years -tick-tuck, tick-tuck)? There is no doubt the year 2020 is coming whether the country is ready or not, and if that will be the only requirement then Malaysia will attain that developed nation status on schedule. There is a question, though, Will Malaysia, or Malaysians, for that matter, be ready for that status as far as their affluence, quality of life's concern? Currently Malaysia's GNI per capita stood at US$10060. According to the World Bank high income economies are those with GNI per capita of US$12,745. And until Malaysians earn much more to be there, the developed nation status may not be achieved even by the year 2020. The futility of declaring a country a high income country when it's not, achieves nothing. May be even counter-productive; it lulls the country into false sense of success and premature celebration. Don't forget China reportedly overtook Japan as the world's second largest economy, but in actual fact China's citizens' ca pita income is a fraction of the incomes of the Japanese who earn $37,000. Chinese incomes range from $13,000. China's gross domestic product, taken as a whole, may beat Japan's, but in term of quality of life, and GNI per capita income, the criteria for a developed nation status, China still has a lot of catching up to do. That's why China still qualifies as recipient of Japan's economic aid meant for developing countries. Comparing with the Chinese per capita domestic product, Malaysia is even worse off. Unless the government bucks up and rushes to create more wealth for its citizens, the Vision 2020 dream may remain just that ..a dream.

Jun 29, 2013

'MCA go home' vs 'Where was DAP 13 years ago?' at Jonker Walk

'MCA go home' vs 'Where was DAP 13 years ago?' at Jonker Walk
What?! Gan qualified his being there as a survey, not to protest? Let alone to lead the protest? Did Mr. Gan Tian Loo realize that the MCA protest carries more weight than DAP protest many times over. The state government, being UMNO-led government, considers the DAP as the opposition working hand-in-hand with PAS and PKR to oust UMNO from power, rescinding the directive on the request from DAP leaders will make the party even more popular. I thought, at first, here come the MCA, finally to do what it's supposed to do. Then the expected  happened. He got cold feet. The reporter who covered the protest reported Gan was suddenly cautious . He was like ..."I'm here to lend my support to..the .. no, wait! I am not here to support the traders - but just to do a quick survey! But I am glad to be standing here with the protesters but reporters, please put it down in black and white I am not, I repeat, am not here as part of the protest. This is the reason the MCA was shunned, I mean has been shunned by the Chinese. They do not represent the Chinese anymore. They cannot get things done anymore unlike in the old days. Gan admitted his meeting with the chief minister was fruitless, but would keep trying. Keep trying for what? He should stop embarrassing the MCA and reducing its credibility further by continuing to beg despite being rebuffed earlier. Again, this proved that the Malaysian Chinese Association has really completely lost its usefulness. If a small matter like Jonker Walk closure was beyond its power then, that 's it.

Jun 22, 2013

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Feb 15, 2013

How To Repair Your Own Refrigerator And Save A Bundle





when I received a call the other day (night) from a Miss Lee complaining about her fridge not working (she noticed the temperature inside the fridge was warm comparable to room temperature), I asked her to check if the fridge's power switch was at on or off?

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When Refrigerators Break down Repairing Them Will Be Very, Very Costly; So The Solution Is To Learn To Do It Yourself!

when I received a call the other day (night) from a Miss Lee complaining about her fridge not working (she noticed the temperature inside the fridge was warm comparable to room temperature), I asked her to check if the fridge's power switch was at on or off? By asking such question or some questions before rushing to a customer's house can make a lot of difference in term of cost. Some customers sometimes fear high power consumption and resort to tempering with the thermostat inside the fridge. While others may turn the knob to 'off' when they decide to take a holiday to outstation or overseas. So when they return and want to use the fridge again they simply plug into the power socket, switch it on and expect it to work - but sometimes it will not work! The refrigerator needs to receive power to run its compressor, and the compressor will not get power if the thermostat is turned to 'off.' So sometimes it is necessary to ask a few questions. But in Miss Lee's case, they insisted both switches were 'on', so I told her I had to check...." Guess what I did before going to Miss Lee's house? Check and gather my tools, of course. Following are what you would require for a normal house call:

  1. A screw driver with a cross on one end and straight on the other (you can carry two screwdrivers if you have both).
  2. A plier
  3. A wire cutter
  4. A test pen (and make sure it can light up when it touches a live wire)
  5. A roll of black tape for joining wires (I mentioned black because it looks neat and professional although you could use any color you wish)
  6. A piece of sandpaper (for cleaning exposed wires if they are rusty)
  7. A damaged screw driver and a small hammer (to be used in case you come a cross a nut that refuses to move - you need to loosen the screw head anti-clock-wise sometimes before it can be unscrewed).
  8. An olmmeter(to test continuity and motor coils)
When I arrived at the house I discovered the fridge was receiving power and, upon opening the door - both top and bottom - detected some cooling; so the fridge did not stop working but it did not work efficiently. It may be short of gas, or gas was laden with oil and the capillary tube could be clogged or gas flow was severely impaired, resulting in what we in the industry call 'oil-lock' or 'choking.' As the capillary tube already has only minute hole in it, any restriction, however minor, will impact the efficiency of the refrigerator. In such a scenario the repair will be costly as the system has to be evacuated and the oil inside the capillary sucked out or flushed out. Then the system will have to be evacuated to minus 30, and recharged with the necessary gas. The cost: more than $300.00! In Miss Lee's case, her fridge was cold but not cold enough to be used. So there definitely was gas. But was it enough? Was it laden with oil as I described earlier? A refrigerator will not work if only half of the evaporator is formed with ice (when shortage of gas) or the whole of the cooling coil (evaporator) is formed with thin or very thin ice which easily melts when heated by the opening and closing of the doors (capillary tube clogged with oil or impurity). If system works perfectly the cooling should also be perfect; and the gas is just one of the components of a fridge or freezer. To be be able to fix the refrigerator a mechanic needs to know what goes wrong. If there is sufficient gas, then what? But first, how to know there is no shortage of gas or any problem related to gas at all? Good question. It is the duty of a fridge repairer to carry out fault- finding to determine the damage and remedy. In my case that day, after noticing that the compressor was running (you can feel the vibration and know if the compressor is running, and the condensation producing heat at the back of a refrigerator), I decided to check the cooling coil first (if enough frost was formed there). I opened up the plastic cover and got to the evaporator and confirmed nothing the matter with ice formation. The frost was normal. So gas was okay - checked. The compressor was running normally - also checked as otherwise there would be no frost in the cooling coil. Next to check was the evaporator fan (motor and blade). Modern refrigerators - most but not all, of them are frost-free or indirect freezing, as they are called - rely on fan to deliver or circulate cool air all over the inner of a fridge - the nearer to the fan the colder it is. The evaporator fan as its name says stays next to the evaporator. When the fan blade spins (and it spins fast) it draws cold air and blows and distribute the cool air throughout your fridge - to eventually return to the compressor through the return pipe and then the compressor compresses it into liquid gas to be transported through piping mostly made of copper to the condensing unit made of iron at the back of the refrigerator or freezer: rejecting heat that was absorbed from your food and drink or heat generated by door openings, to the surrounding air or area. This cycle will continue as long as your refrigerator continues to receive power. Story short, what happened to Miss Lee's fridge was, yes, the fan stopped running. You already know what the fan's for, so I will skip that part and tell you why it stopped and how I fixed it. When I got to the fan, after removing the freezing compartment's floor - I tried turning the blade if it could move, it could not! I had to force turn a bit and it became free. After spinning the plastic blade manually a few times, I decided to test run the fridge. It worked beautifully. As I said, if a repair is done correctly the fridge will come alive immediately in reaction. The challenge is to diagnose properly. I cannot stress this enough. Then I was done. In next article we will talk about what a refrigerator consists of - total parts. And how it works?
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