“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.”
- Vince Lombardi, a famous American football coach -
Running out of time in a football game is one thing.
Running out of time in the game of life is quite another. You see, after years of abusing their bodies, people are finally ready to do something about their cholesterol, their eating habits, or their high blood pressure. They’re ready to start … tomorrow, next week, or in the next year.
For some of those people, that day never comes - they run out of time. Your health needs to be one of your foremost priorities. Then you’ll win the health and happiness game with a long life ahead of you.
Guess what? In relation, Shahrir was right when he said many consumers did not know enough about their needs and tended to be influenced by misinformation. Citing an example, he said motorists bought petrol with a higher grade than what their cars actually required and claimed they loved their cars and wanted the best for them.
Now, don’t we love our body? Don’t we love our health?
This proverb is adapted from a line in the play The Mourning Bride, by William Congreve, an English author of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
And the woman in question is none other than the axed Universiti Malaya vice-chancellor Rafiah Salim who told Malaysiakini 17 November 2008.
“Just because we are women and we don’t have that thing between the legs so we are not good.”
Fierce, very fierce remark.
And today, she claimed that she had to live with all kinds of “nonsense” pertaining to political interference during her tenure in the university.
The Star today reported that taxi drivers will be allowed to do side businesses by selling packet drinks and phonecards to passengers.
Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development Minister Datuk Noh Omar said this was to help them supplement their income.
“The cabbies can sell drinks or pre-paid cards by collaborating with telcos in their taxis,” he told reporters yesterday after presenting certificates to 135 taxi drivers who completed a course co-organised by the ministry and Malaysian Taxi, Limousine and Hired Car Drivers and Operators Association (Petekma).
Another move to help cabbies supplement their income was to make it simpler for taxis to seek ministry approval to carry advertisements, including placing them on the roof of the vehicle.
I have travelled in taxis before and I sympathise with many of the drivers. What they need most is fairer deals from their employers. Noh Omar should see to that. Not just “cuci tangan” and offer them a side businesses while at work!
In any case, would you dare consume the drinks sold to you? Read this report from the NST 6 November 2008.
KUALA LUMPUR: More money to use now means less for one’s retirement. This is the dilemma Employees Provident Fund contributors face should they decide to opt to have their monthly contribution reduced from the mandatory 11% to the “voluntary” 8%.
The government’s decision to adopt this measure to help Malaysians tide the rise in prices of goods and services and the economic downturn is heartily welcomed by those in the lower income group and struggling to pay bills.
But there are many who prefer to stick to the 11% deduction and tighten their belts momentarily.
Ah Eng: Would you spend a night with me for RM1 million?
Ah Har: RM1 million? When?
Ah Eng: How about RM1,000?
Ah Har: F***-off! What do you think I am? A prostitute?
Ah Eng: Didn’t we just established that?
Also somewhere in Ping Leng, State Opposition Leader Azhar Ibrahim has rejected the RM1,000 monthly allowance allocated by the Pakatan Rakyat state government for the position.
