Malaysia Boleh - From Nasi Lemak to EVs

 

Asia's EVolution: From chip design to first homegrown electric vehicle, Malaysia wants a seat at global EV table

Malaysia is betting on its role as a leading exporter of semiconductor chips and a rewriting of its industrial DNA to be a force in the global EV ecosystem.

KUALA LUMPUR: The "Pentamaster" name may not be emblazoned on the hoods of the world’s leading electric vehicles (EVs). But without the Malaysian company’s specialised test equipment for the "brains" of these cars, rapid charging would not be possible.

Since 2016, the company has increasingly shifted to the testing of power chips – critical components in EVs and made of advanced materials like silicon carbide and gallium nitride – to ensure their quality and reliability.  CNA

Malaysia is moving ahead of other Asean states in its drive towards industrialisation. The days of old Proton buying obsolete Mitsubishi engines are over. Malaysia is starting to develop its own talents and own EV cars. 

Though traditional craft and industries are equally important, just like Singapore's hawker culture, the way forward is high tech. Hawker culture will be the staple industry, jig workers will be the fall back employment. Semiconductors and EVs are where the future is moving, the competition in the first world. Real talents, not fake talents, are needed in these industries. Malaysia has another advantage, betting on the winning side, with real high tech, not fake tech.

Well done Malaysia. Malaysia Boleh!

American boys and girls deserve to die in Operation Kill Iranians

 American boys and girls sent to the Middle East to kill Iranians must die for what they are going to do, to kill Iranians that have nothing to do with them, that lived in their own country 10,000 km from American homeland, minding their own business. Just because the terrorists and clowns in Washington spread the lie that the Iranians are going to kill Americans, or like the idiot Rubio who justified that if the Israelis were going to attack Iran, then Iran would attack America, then it is right to go and kill Iranians first, and American boys and girls willingly accepted to go kill Iranians, they do not deserve any sympathy or compassion when they got killed by the Iranians. 

The American boys and girls need not have to die. But when you set out to kill people, you deserve to be killed. Period.

Now that the body bags are coming home, and mothers and loved ones are crying, my boy or girl is only 20 year old, there is no need for them to die, who should they blame? They should blame themselves for allowing the clowns and terrorists in Washington to dictate the fate of their children. Why didn't they say no, why didn't they protest? Oh, they fully supported the clowns and terrorists, thinking that killing Iranians is fun and safe. America is the number one superpower, very powerful, can kill anyone with their superior and sophisticated weapons, and the victims cannot hit back. Lunatic Trump proudly said, if the Iranians did not surrender, he will bomb and bomb them to ashes. This is the mentality of a sick man. The boys and girls will come home safely, wrapped in black plastic bags, as war heroes for killing innocent Iranians that have nothing to do with them.

American parents, hillbillies and rednecks, you are just as guilty as the clowns and terrorists in Washington to think it is ok to go half way around the world to kill people. You only have yourself to blame. You deserve it, your boys and girls deserve to die. There is no free lunch.

Live by the sword, die by the sword. This is only fair and just. Send more American boys and girls to die and be prepared to buy more body bags and flowers. The days when American terrorists can go and kill people with impunity is over.  Killed and be killed. If the American people did not stop the maniacs in Washington, many more American boys and girls will die, like Vietnam all over again. This time the enemy is much stronger and more powerful, with equally deadly weapons to match.

TACO now takut, wants to wind down on war in Iran

Trump has forgotten a few things about past wars ignited by the USA. Can't blame him because he was never involved in any war, using his bone spurs to evade conscription. We know the story very well. In fact, he does not even know the meaning of peace, calling himself a 'Peace President' until they did not give him the Nobel Peace Prize. Because of that, he became a 'War President' with a Department of War and a drunk Secretary of War.

The North Vietnamese did not have a strong air force or naval force and yet they defeated the USA conclusively. The USA air force was carpet bombing the Vietcong day and night for more than three long years. What was the result? A historic load of bombs dropping meaninglessly while the Vietcong were hiding underground. Tenacity and strategy won the day, not military might.

The Taliban had no air force, navy or even an army to talk about, and yet they sent the USA home, after the USA threw more than US$2 trillion into an unwinnable misadventure. Resilient and strategy won the day. The Taliban could wait another twenty years, just using guerilla warfare and small arms. The USA could not fight a long-drawn-out war. They feared putting boots on the ground in Yemen against the Houthis, which they could do so on a trot.

That goes for Iran as well. USA troops on the ground in Iran will face the same treatment as in Vietnam. Trump is boasting that he is not worried about troops bogged down in Iran. Draft his son, Baron Trump, into the forefront of the invasion of Iran and let us see what he says.

Trump is now giving a 48-hours ultimatum to Iran to open up the Straits of Hormuz. Why not make it 24-hours like in Ukraine? Trump claims to have taken out all aerial, naval and underground silos of Iran. Who is going to believe him, risking ships costing hundreds of millions that insurers are unwilling to cover. The man talks big when he is high on drugs and chickens out when he is slightly sober.

Anonymous

Only stupid people bet against China to gain stupid results

I beg to differ. The rest of the world, by necessity and logic, must not get involved. Even the Europeans are seeing the picture right now and are not involved for now. I say for now, because the Brits are already involved.

This is a war against the Muslims and Arabs as a first testing point. It is Marco Rubio's call of past European colonizers to rebuild their empires. Already Latin American countries like Colombia, Ecuador and even Cuba are under threat next. Argentina and Venezuela are already in the USA bag. Mexico is playing a longer game of straddling two boats and is not so trustworthy in the geopolitical game between USA and China. Mexico is feeling which direction the wind blows, and like bamboos will bend in tandem.

China has long been on the list of countries that the USA wanted to render toothless, like Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union in the past, so that the USA can remain as the sole superpower. But the USA knows that China is no easy meat, not with Russia in its backyard and supporting it, which is why the USA is rallying doggies to its side in the event of a confrontation.

Africa, with a total population of 1.4 billion, is not easy to overcome by the Anglo-Saxon Whites today. Africans in general, although some are still blinded by bribes, have now seen how China had overcome adversity, risen as a manufacturing power and how China is helping them to develop its infrastructures. They have eyes to see and knows who is going to continue to butter their bread going forward. If China can become what it is today, what is the logic of not following China's path to greatness. Only stupid people bet against that to gain stupid results.


Anonymous

Is Singapore a smart city for real? What kind of talents are behind this smart city aspiration?

CNA Explains: What causes GIRO errors and what you can do if it happens

The Consumers Association of Singapore received 10 complaints relating to unauthorised GIRO deductions from Jan 1 last year to Mar 16 this year.

SINGAPORE: To pay for their children’s student care, some parents set up GIRO arrangements with Little Professors Learning Centre, expecting routine monthly deductions of fees.

Instead, they got a rude shock. Some were charged the wrong amount in certain months – and charged twice in others.

One mother, who was supposed to pay S$30 (US$24) a month, was charged S$196.80 on three occasions and S$68 once.  CNA

Hearing this kind of news I can only shake my head. What kind of software talents are we using to write such apps? I just came back from a short holiday and have been using Alipay, Wechat, Trips.com and also have been using Shopee for online shopping. Think of the hundreds of billions of transactions that these Chinese apps are handling daily! One mistake and the whole system will collapse, and no more trust in using them. Think of the complexities that these apps are managing, providing all kinds of services, not just one or two functions!

When one 'was supposed to pay S$30 (US$24) a month, was charged S$196.80 on three occasions and S$68 once', this is serious. This is not a mistake! This is more than a mistake. How can anyone trust such a system? 'Professor Sumit Agarwal of the National University of Singapore’s business school also said GIRO errors are rare.' “There are very small issues that happen, very few and far between, but systematic problems are very rare,” he said. This is unacceptable. Financial system must have zero defect. Can you imagine what will the impact of such errors in Alipay, Wechat or Shopee? We just shrugged it off as normal, as rare, small issues that will happen? Are we supposed to live with such errors?

Why is Singapore, bragging about being a smart city, bragging about all the foreign talents or fake talents that were brought in, facing so many glitzes in the software being used by the banking and financial industries when the usage is just a trickle of what the Chinese software were handling?

Are we getting the best talents, the real stuff to work for us? Why not hire the best but go for fakes and 9th or 10th best, or rejects that cannot go to America or anywhere and have to land in Singapore?