There Is
X-Files Out There
By Luk4all Editor
Posted
9th January 2008
From
time to
time we
are led
to
believe
there is
actually
still
poverty
existing
in
Malaysia.
This
‘led to
believe’
as I
mentioned
in my
previous
sentence
is the
X-files
by
itself.
How did
I came
to this
conclusion?
Three
weeks
ago, my
colleague
and I
went for
lunch at
a coffee
shop
near
Sunshine
Bayan
Baru. As
we
parked
our car,
guess
who came
running
by to
write us
our
parking
ticket?
I would
believe
most of
us would
think it
would
either
be a
Chinese,
Indian
or Malay
Ah Pek,
but NO….
I was
greeted
by Mr.
Bangla,
yes its
Mr.
BANGLA!!!.
So you
might
ask how
would
Mr.
Bangla
got to
do with
poverty?
Lets us
do some
math, I
do not
know how
much it
is to
hire Mr.
Bangla,
but I
know
that to
hire an
Indonesian
maid
with a 2
years
contract
would
cost me
the
below.
Initial
cost –
RM7000
Salary
for 2
years
(first 6
months
free) –
RM450 x
18
months =
RM8100
Food,
lets us
assume
Miss
Maid
eats
RM10 a
day for
2 years
- RM10 x
730days
= RM7300
Misc
(clothes,
medications,
water
and
electric),
RM50
per-month
– RM50 x
24 =
RM1200
Total =
RM23600
It would
mean it
cost a
person
about
RM23600
to hire
an
Indonesian
to be
domestic
maid,
and
breaking
down
this
number
to 24
months,
it would
means
the maid
would
cost
about
RM983 a
month.
Lets us
now look
at Mr.
Bangla
who is
our
sunshine
MPPP
parking
attendant.
There is
2
possibilities
to Mr.
Bangla
case.
Case #1
– MPPP
could
not find
any
Malaysian
willing
to work
as a
parking
attendant,
thus
need to
go a
country
that is
much
more
poorer
than
Malaysian
to hire
a
parking
attendant.
Case #2
– Some
one got
this
parking
attendant
job,
decided
he
rather
sits at
home do
nothing
and hire
Mr.
Bangla
to write
his
parking
tickets.
For
either
of the
case,
let us
now
assume
that the
number
we work
out for
Miss
Maid
applies
to Mr.
Bangla.
To make
a profit
out of
hiring
Mr.
Bangla
would
means
the
writing
of
parking
tickets
has to
make a
cool
profit
of more
than
RM983. I
do NOT
think
Mr.
SitAtHome
is
stupid
enough
to do a
business
that
would
make him
less
than
that
cost of
hiring
Mr.
Bangla
or even
giving
him a
profit
of less
40% of
the cost
of
hiring
Mr.
Bangla.
If the
Mr.
SitAtHome
is able
to make
RM1376
with
this, I
do not
know we
can even
have any
one in
Malaysia
claims
to be in
the
poverty
category.
MPPP can
easily
offer
this job
to any
one
claims
to in
the
poverty.
Comments:
anyone know how this contract is tendered out??
1/9/2008 1:44:39 PM | soilek
Interesting article...I had visited Sunshine Square BB coffee shop for my morning breakfast almost every weekend everytime when I am back to Penang. The car park attendant is indeed a Bangla ! Just before u step out from the car, he appears right infront of u. If we look into wider perspective, we are seeing more foreign labourers from Myammar working in most chinese kopitiam.
KL...callum...
1/11/2008 9:53:07 AM | Callum
Our country is being invaded by the INDONS and now by the BANGLAS! You can see Indons and Bangla everywhere in Malaysia .Maybe one day ,we will be contol by these foreigners if the present goverment does not take the necessary remedy .
1/12/2008 3:17:03 PM | wata
Just wanna to add one point here. One day when I was park at Taman Perkaka Penang, when the carpark attendant came to me for payment, I noticed that he didn't even write down my car number. If you read the ticket carefully, if you did not settle the bill within the stipulated period, you will be fine.
What does this tells us ???? It came straight to my mind and I told my wife (seat next to me), next time whoever park their car with ticket issue, you can actually drive away without paying them. I am absolutely sure MPPP will not come to your house doorstep asking for 40 cents ticket payment. Does this makes sense ? If yes, why the clause says if you did not settle the bill within the stipulated period you will get a fine from MPPP. Peculiar !!! Malaysia BOLEH !!!!
KL...Callum
1/13/2008 10:01:20 AM | Callum
Dont really mind on the 0.40 cent ticket, the thing that pisses me off the most is someone (usually a Chinese or Indian) asking for RM2. And that's with no ticket at all! Used to have this issue 7 years ago with my new car, now will not pay unless together with family.
So i think the best way to resolve this is either:
1) to use meter (no human required unless for the MPPP themselve to write tickets)
2) or use parking coupon (like how MPSP is using).
I believe using a person to man issuing tickets (like what MPPP does) has good intention to create job, but what i can see here is we're only creating more foreign workers influx locally. MPPP should have a spot check on parking lots, to ensure those caught with hiring foreign, will have their contract revoke. Btw, how do they get the contract? Think i want to apply for one...looks luxury.
1/14/2008 4:12:06 AM | brethern
malaysian do the darnest thing. in penang we have ppl writing parking coupons, but usually when you want to pay you cannot find thos attendant. in other states like perak, you need to buy coupons, just wondering if you are just visiting not sure how you want to go and hunt for coupons.
1/16/2008 3:40:18 PM | darn
I did remembered years back, Petaling Jaya has started implementing a coupon system. However, the MPPJ did not do his mathematic correctly and finally found that the printing of the coupon is much higher than 40 cents.
Another bad example is, the coupon is laminated with a layer of materials (rubber like) where we normally scratch the Year, Date and Time. This materials once get heated for prolong hour (our car usually parked under hot sun), it is unable to scratch once gets harden.
Again, MALAYSIA BOLEH !!
KL...Callum.
1/17/2008 6:41:56 AM | Callum
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