Change lifestyle...

Good day,

In the past few days we have heard many ministers giving their 2 cents' worth on how to be prudent with our spending. One asked us to use the spare land at the back of our house, if we have any, to plant vegetables. Should i also start rearing my own chickens? For those who live in apartments, they can choose to plant vegetables using the hydroponic technique. LOL, if i wanted to plant something and benefit from it, i'd plant poppies.

Next, take public transport. Can some1 tell me how should i take the public transport to work, from Sg. Long? if its cost and time effective, i'll take it. Heck, if it takes like 15-20 mins extra per journey i wouldnt mind. After all the population in Sg Long and Bandar mahkota cheras is about 20-30 thousand people. If there is a viable solution it will take at least 5,000 vehicles off the road daily.

The govt has also said it will cut their ministers allowances and holidays. 1st of all opnly cut their allowances by 10%? isn't it a bit too little? After all you guys did increase price by 40% and saved billions. If cutting 10% saves us 2 billion, can you imagine how much we save if it is cut by also 40-50%? wow!! huge amount right?

And what about their paid holidays? i didnt even know that we, as taxpayers are paying for these guys holidays and their families. It used to be to any destination. Now its just Asean and local destinations. They can also fly business class. WTF?!!?!? Our Penang CM takes economy class. Thats leadership by example! Anyways, back to the holidays, who said its much cheaper to travel only ASEAN and local destinations? these are just like smokescreen to cover our eyes. This hotel here in Langkawi charges a minimum amount of U$D600+ a night!!! This hotel chain has about 10 resorts all over South East Asia, so our ministers can actually stay at these places and not spend any lesser amount of money; and maybe even more than ever. The famous Award Winning Pangkor Laut Resort charges about U$D 300+ a night. I can list down a lot of expensive resorts in S.E.A but listing them here wont help any1 (maybe the ministers who stumble upon my blog while looking for nice places to go spend their vacation in S.E.A.). What i'm trying to say is that if i were to pay for my ministers holidays (i know they work very hard for us, so maybe we deserve to pay for their breaks) how about we just give them a fixed amiutn like RM2,000 per vacation. any more exp, they pay themselves.

On the other hand, this seems like a good idea: Employers paying for their employees' vacation. I wonder if my bosses will take a cue from this. Hahahah!!!

Seriously, we should ensure that minister's lifestyle should change. maybe we should reduce the number of police outriders to save fuel. Or maybe no bodyguards at all so they can get stuck in the jams with all of us. Or even, maybe take away all their vehicls and only allow them to use it for official functions. For them to get to work and back home, we shall give them a touch and go card with RM1,000 preloaded inside so they can take bus, lrt or drive their own car to work. ;-p

Wait, what if all of these are implemented in the future? Then becoming a minister wont be so appealing to me anymore... Dammit!!!


Boodyboy, out!!!