Rocelyn Deserve Her Salary

Rocelyn Tubal Reneses is fighting for her right to against her former employee Port View Seafood Village Sdn Bhd of wages/salary amounting RM4,232.70. This cases have been in Labour court and move on to High Court, still Port View Seafood Village Sdn Bhd still disputing the wages/salary claim by Rocelyn.
I think, I'm agree that the overtime rate is based on the basic salary but unnecessary deduction for work pass, hair clip, walkie talkie and uniforms is too way far. Even if they are contract staff the company should provided those item. What a stingy restaurant.
Besides that, the restaurant also dragging this issue for quite sometimes by not attending court hearing as they know her visa expires on 16 Nov 2010.
We hope the court ruling is in favor to Rocelyn. As a human, she deserve what she had work for. And as for the restaurant, don't just making money out of others misery and taking advantage of poor uneducated people.
People should boycott this restaurant for treating their employer badly. Shame on you Port View Seafood Village Sdn Bhd. Shame on you.

Sabah Still The Poorest State

Referring to Online Daily Express report on 11 Nov 2010, World Bank reported that Sabah still the poorest state in Malaysia. Many Malaysian know this as well as Sabahan themselves.

It sad to see Sabah is still rated one of the poorest state. In my opinion, the reports correctly said that majority of the poor family are located in rural area. Most of them are working on their own to support their family. If they are working for somebody, the pay is not enough to support their family. One example, when i was working in Keninagu, the security guard pay to for a month to look after our office is only RM400. What you can buy with RM400 now days? If you have kids and it definitely not enough.

Our government have a long way to increase standard of living for this rural area as majority Sabahan still staying in rural area. There is a lot of infrastructure need to be build before we can achieve this. We hope the government really look at this issue.

No comment or suggestion from me as this is a very broad topic.

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Heavy chargers for baby dumpers

The media had reported many baby dumping cases recently. Body in dustbin, body found by scavenger and baby girl found in factory dustbin. This show we human had become so evil due to pressure of having baby outside the wedding wedlock. Sure enough, the women who in stress can only thinking of dumping their child.
The government had create a baby hatch set up by ORPHANCare on 29 May 2010. This is a good decision. On 13 August, the cabinet decided that baby dumpers will be charger with murder (www.thestar.com.my). Both is a good decision to reduce the baby dumping by the mother/parents. Definitely, if this decision is not make, more and more baby dump by the irresponsible mother/parents. I'm happy that we have this to reduce the baby dumping. But, bare in mind this is a short term solution. If we want to reduce pregnancies, sex education is must put in place. To do this is a gargantuan task and school curriculum have to be change.
Sex education should not only limited to school, the Churches also play and important role to educate its followers about this. In Sunday School, there should be some time allocated for sex education and it consequences.
It's sad to see in the news everyday about baby dumping. The parents also have the responsibility to play when educating their children. As Jackie Chan said in the movie The Karate Kid, 'There is no bad student, only bad teachers'. I am a parent myself, let us educate our children about this problem. Not to encourage them to have sex but to educate them the consequences.

Subsidy cutting by Malaysia Government

Starting today, RON 95 is RM1.85 (RON 97 is RM2.10, diesel is RM1.75), sugar is at RM1.90 per kg and LPG is at RM1.85 per kg.
Once again we have to live with higher living cost as this subsidy cut will affect prices of other product and services. Drinking at mamak stall will be more expensive and also travelling will be more costly. The government have all the right to cut this subsidy since it involve a lot sum of money and it cost the country dearly.
The government should look at the affected people such as low income people who depend on public transport to move around. I agree with FOMCA secretary-general Muhd Sha’ani Abdullah to review the bus fare to ensure those low income people are not badly affected with this hike. With this, many people will chose to travel with public transport.
Whatever the cut it, it definelty going to affect those low income citizen as they depend much on public transport. With the hike in petrol and diesel price, supplier will always use this excuse to increase their goods price. The government also have to control some of the product such as fish, meet and also vegetable because the price surely going up after this. Those responsible people have to go down to market frequently to check on irresponsible supplier or seller.

Bogus buyer at Mudah.com.my

I had add my Frico Induction Cooker recently at www.mudah.com.my. Within 1 day after the add had been approved by mudah.com.my, one buyer claiming to be Mrs. Janet Stone from USA want to buy the product. She said it will be delivered to her boss daugter in West Africa. I dont think this buyer is serious enough in this transaction. The freight to send the item to Africa is RM1,500 and the product is RM1,700. She can buy brand new induction cooker in the State and deliver it to her boss daugher in West Africa. Not logical for a buyer to spend USD820 just to buy a induction cooker here in Malaysia as she can source it at her country. The payment according to her is via bank to bank transfer. I plan not to go futher with this deal as i also have been coned in mudah.com.my in 2008.
In 2008 i lost RM300 to a seller by the name of abigailteh89@yahoo.com (Hp:013-3318843)who sell PS 2. She claim she from Sarawak she ask to bank in the money to her boyfrined by the name of LEE CHEE KEONG (Maybank account # : 1101150072345). The item never sent to me. Polica report have been made but so far no news from them. I browse through the net and found not only me have been conned by seller in mudah.com.my. So have to be extra careful next time.

Congratulation Spain

All hail the new World Cup Champion Spain. Andres Iniesta goal make it happen when he score the only goal in the match between Spain and Netherlands.
Also, all hail Paul the Octopus for make 100% wright prediction. Truly unbelievable as Paul correctly predict all the match winner including match between Germany and Uruguay.

As the world cup ended, there is some tears and joy to those had participate in the game. And we will have to wait for another 4 years for the world cup in Brazil 2014.

Congratulations once again to Spain.

The Germans and Paul the Phycic Octopus

Until to this stage (World Cup 2010 Semifinal), there is 2 major issue which mostly discussed by football fan.

1. Who will be the World Cup 2010 winner? Could it be Netherlands, Germany or Spain.
2. AND Paul the phycic Octopus prediction

Today, in the news, its have been reveald that Paul had choose Spain to win the match between Germany vs Spain. Its surely heartbroken those Germans since Paul had the tendecy to pick Germany in his previous pick (expect for match between Germany and Serbia).

Its will be insteresting to see how Paul prediction become reality tomorrow (9 July 2010) when the match ended. Hopefully the Germans dont kill Paul if their team lose to Spain tomorrow. Or, if ther Germans wins, they shoudl release him back to the place where he belong.

I will be beating on Spain to win the 2010 World Cup and if they does win, i plan stop eating octopus/squids for 4 years (until to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil).

Go Spain, beat those Germans.

Sugar Refinery in Sabah

Reading the Daily Express newspaper today, the government is proposing sugar refinery in Sabah. Thats a good news for us in Sabah or Sarawak i believe as we facing a lot of sugar shortage as well as price difference with peninsular Malaysia.
This was announce by Domestic Trade, Co-operatives, and Consumerism minister Datuk Ismail Sabri. Sabah in the past also have their own sugarcane plantation and sugar refinery manage by Gula Sabah Sdn Bhd. It was a history now.
Lets hope the government is sincerely enough with the projects this time. I believe it bring more good than harm if they build the sugar refinery plus the sugarcane plantation.
If the government want to built a sugar refinery, please look at Pitas area or Kimanis/Bongawan area. This should help those people stay there by providing them job opportunity.
With the sugar refinery build in Sabah, this should lower the sugar price as by now mostly sugar were imported from peninsular especially Perlis.

Company responsibility - Maternity Leave

I found one interesting opinion from The Star online by Marisa Demori of Ipoh on the Maternity Leave (Ridiculously generous benefit will bankrupt many firms – 24 May 2010). Marisa is responding on Rueben Dudley article on Star as well (Stay in step with the ILO on maternity leave – 21 May 2010).

According to Marisa, pregnant woman should resign or take unpaid leave and back to work when the child is big enough. I’m agree with Marisa on the lost of time and production during the absence of female employee due to maternity leave. But I disagree with Marisa on asking them to resign or taking unpaid leave.

My reason is:
1.It’s a woman right to entitle for a leave during confinement (Marisa should know about the after giving birth pantang and breastfeeding the child).
2.Is a woman duty to give birth to our future generation.
3.There is a society issue involve. What happen if the woman is sole breadwinner or single mother. If she resigns, does Marisa think she can easily find a job as Marisa said there is other people out there also needed the job. I think the family will face more problems after that.
4.I never heard of a company in Malaysia or others country that bankrupt because to many female employees on maternity leave (many factories in Malaysia employ woman).

In my opinion, a company should look at their staff welfare and not focus on making big bucks only. Bear in mind that a company success is not achieve by one person only. Not just because a woman taking maternity leave for 2 months, a company disregard her contribution to the company in the past and ask her to take unpaid leave or resign.

"BIN" and "BINTI" In Sabah, Malaysia

Every year in local newspaper we see issue on 'Bin' and "Binti'. This words are meant for Muslim which referring to 'son of' or 'daughter of'. But in Sabah, this words have been using for sometimes and also used by non Muslim. Even my parents have this words on their identification cards.

I have two reason why this issue happen:
1. Back in earlier 1900, many Sabah resident are not educated and when they register their son/daughter birth, they relay on other people to do it. If the registration department put it 'bin' or 'binti', the parents wont know. Back then, the usage of 'bin' and 'binti' is not big issue. Others can use it can nobody care.
2. There is no guidelines on the usage of 'bin' and 'binti' given by authorities. The registration personnel or the hospital just put it in and parents also don't double check.

My suggestion to this problem is:
1. Registration department should came out with memo the front people at registration department or hospital to restricted this 'bin' or 'binti' for Muslims only.
2. When registering their son/daughter birth with Registration department, parents should check also if the words 'bin' or 'binti' it not used if they are non Muslim. The front office personnel also have the responsibility to correct this problem. If we do it right at the first time, then this issue wont arise.

Tagal System

Im one of the participating Tagal member in Kg. Timpoluon, Penampang, Sabah. This is my view on this system;

First of all, we need to know the word ‘Tagal’ means. In Dusun language, “Tagal’ mean “No Need” or “Don’t”. In Sabah, Tagal system is widely use by villagers to protect the fresh water fish stock. Many districts had implemented this likes Penampang, Kota Belud, Papar and Tuaran.

Reasons for this system to be implemented are:
i. Make sure stock of fresh water fish not affected + fresh water fish existence
ii. Reduce over harvesting of fish using poison or electric current

In order to implement the system, a committee needs to be set up to run the Tagal system.
The committee tasks are:
i. Setting the Tagal boundary (staring point and end point).
ii. Set up a penalty for those who caught catching fish in the Tagal area. Penalty usually as monetary, animals (buffalo or pig) or both. Each member will be given the law (book).
iii. Setting a red zone (cannot catch fish in this area) and green zone (section of the river who member can catch fish one the river is open up).
iv. Setting up team to patrol the Tagal area.

The system only working if the participating member honor the Tagal law which they cannot catch fish unless is open. Besides that, they have to report to the Tagal committee if somebody is caught fishing in the Tagal area.