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Hi, my name is Marianne and I'm currently doing my 2nd year degree in Mass Communication in University College Sedaya International. Me and my group have a project and it's based on bloggers. We need to conduct interviews and we would like to seek for your permission to conduct an interview from you.... is it possible in any way?

JEFF OOI says: Pls drop me an email.

Putrajaya is a big place. It has many govt buildings. Each building has many rooms.

Just one will do. A room with a big map of the country.

The map will show where the poor and underserved are clustered. It shows the cohort size, the average take-home monthly income, even insitu photos. You can put little red pins on each point to signify urgent need for aid. Yellow pins will say the place has been helped once, blue pins helped more than once.

Right now there would be even more red pins on the map than before. The petrol price hike has created a multiplier virus which has spread inflation all over the land. While it may be said that those in the rural areas will be able to get better prices for their produce, the increased costs of transportation and fertilizers erase that without reducing their inability to buy more necessities to stave off starvation.

Focus on the red pins wherever they are and regardless who the cohorts are made of. Then for each big or PR project that Umno wants to do, hold it until the funds are squared against the needs of those in these red pin places.

Right now, the urgency is to make red turn yellow so that those families won't go under.

Most of them are in Sabah, Sarawak, Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan, Terengganu and Perak.

Find out who the MPs are at the ground in those places, and audit the performance of those local agencies in those areas who have been left to die for so long.

There is no excuse for ignoring the poor and underserved in this country.

We're not given life just to open boutiques.

Thanks Jeff for writing out 20 billion in all its 11 digits glory !!
Its a hell lot of money for nation governing and building and as a Joe public I cannot help but be sckeptical on how much will end up to be RENTAL and how much of it will 'capillarate' down to us Rakyat !!!!

I am praying that Jeff and all the new lawmakers will provide some measure of check and balance in this whole equation.
Malaysia deserves better !!

It's a sign of poor administration when one has already spent what has yet to be approved. Why then pass it to Parliament?

A simple majority doesn't mean that billions of tax money from the rakyat can be spent without prior debate and approval. It defeats the role of Parliament for independent scrutiny.

Continuing to do so will mean that if the funds are misused, they can later say Parliament has already approved.

In the absence of better accountability and transparency, that is more likely to happen than not.

We are talking about millions out of billions; easy to hide, looking at the playfulness of most MPs these days.