This is due to an accident that involved an oil palm tanker and a lorry that killed 3. When I first heard it on the radio, they opened up with news of a disrupted water supply and THEN that 3 people died in the accident.

It makes you wonder which is more important – the fact that water supply is disrupted or the fact that 3 people died.

In a classic D’oh incident, foreign minister Rais Yatim has gone and stuck his foot right into his mouth in typical Malaysian BN knee jerk reaction. I got the jerk part right!

Apparently, Rais Yatim wants young women travelling alone to get parental consent before leaving the country. This is to prevent them from being use as drug mules. Erm yes… and? I mean come on. If the women allow themselves to be used because they are promised thousands of RM so they can buy that latest LV bag, why bother? Let them get thrown into prison for their stupidity and greed.

The rest of us good girls aren’t likely to want to carry drugs any time soon and I don’t see what’s wrong with women going off on a holiday by themselves. What if they are orphans. Does it mean they can’t leave the country? Come on, young women above 21 are adults. The Federal Constitution allows us the basic freedom to do as you wish so long as we don’t flout the law.

Traveling alone isn’t flouting any law. What if I have to leave the country for a business trip? Next thing you know, they’ll ban us from carrying bic pens because we will poke someone’s eyes out.

Rais, if you want to closet all women and lock them up at home so they don’t go galliavanting around the world getting ideas about how women’s right should be in this country, and how a country ought to be run, just try to pass that bloody law and watch while the men of the country get torn from limb to limb. Women will not tolerate such nonsense!

Argh! the stupidity!!!

Can someone tell me why a National airline like MAS would want to  get onto the low fareor budget airlines system of offering free air fares?

This is the story on the news and what I saw on tv yesterday.  Seriously, MAS should just stop competing with AirAsia. AirAsia is a low budget carrier. Of course fares are lower but they still charge administration fees and taxes and they don’t give food or drink and they are now charging to check in bags too.

MAS should hold its head up and behave as a commercial national carrier should – aloof and above gimmicks like these. A commercial airline carrier is pricey. We all know that. But people still fly them. I would and I did because I feel more comfortable not having to fight for my seats, I like having orange juice on board and I like going to a proper airport, not some low budget hangar.

So, grow up, MAS and stop playing with the kids and start bucking up and playing with the big boys. You don’t see SIA or Cathay Pacific stooping so low do you?!