Durian Jokes

I was looking at a bunch durians and told the taukea:

"Penangites are interesting ..."

the taukea ask:

"what do you mean?"

I said:

"don't you think so, the names of these durian are cool"

The taukea smiled and proudly said:

"Do you wanna try ling-fung-jiao, it looks small, but is has this strong aroma.

If not do you wanna try ling-qing-xia? not only it looks good, it taste bitter sweet."

I said:

"alrite! alrite! lets try 2 of each"
Honestly after trying them , they do indeed tasted not bad at all.

And then the taukea said:

"Do you wanna try our latest durian brand?"

I said:

"You have new brands too!"
"Yes! This new brand is called Koh Tsu Khoon."

I was amazed and ask:

"What is so special about this one?"
"This brand is actually not very special, but it has something that all other brand doesn't have."
"err! and what is that?"

The taukea smiled and said:

"That is because this brand is BO HOOD (tak dak biji)"

我看了看一摊卖榴莲的就说：“老板，你们槟城人很有意境。”
老板问：“这话怎么讲？”
我说：“不是吗？这些榴莲品种的名字就好听。”
老板骄傲的看着我笑笑说：“要不要试一试这林风娇的品种，它 看起来虽小，但味道够浓；又或者你想试一试这林青霞品种，它不仅外观美，味道可是苦中带甜。”
我说：“好！好！就各开两粒。”
吃过后，说真的味道还不错。
老板又说：“你还要不要试一试，我们最新的品种？”
我说：“你还有新品种啊！”
“有啊！这个品种好，叫许子根。”
我傻傻的看着他问：“这品种有什么特别吗？”
“这品种啊！其实跟其他的比起来没什么特 别，但有一样特色是其他品种没有的。”
“啊？那是什么？”
老板笑笑的说：“它 的特色就是BO HOOD (没 种子）。

Don’t worry Malaysian, we are still better than Cambodia, Myanmar, Brunei & Laos.

Don’t worry Malaysian, we are still better than Cambodia, Myanmar, Brunei & Laos. Malaysia Boleh…Cheers!!

Malaysia's precipitous drop in inward foreign direct investments and an increase in outward foreign direct investments mark a complete lack of confidence in Malaysia's economy

Tony Pua

The recent release of World Foreign Investment Report (WIR) 2010 by United Nations Conference of Trade and Development (UNCTAD) provided a picture that is nothing short of grim and ugly for the Malaysian economy especially in its attractiveness as a local and foreign investment destination. While the headline 81% drop in foreign direct investment (FDI) from US$7.32 billion to US$1.38 billion can be brushed of as a 'blip' due to a global financial and economic crisis in 2008-2009, a more in-depth study reveals that it was certainly not a one-off.

Our country's leadership should instead heed the loud alarm bells the data presented to prevent our economy from drifting aimless to a point of no return. The UNCTAD WIR 2010 data revealed five firsts for Malaysia:

1. For the first time ever in history, Malaysia attracted less investment than the Philippines

Malaysia has lost out to Thailand in FDI for the very first time in 1998 while Indonesia exceeded us recently for the first time in 2005. Vietnam on the other hand, beat us in FDI for the very first time the year before, in 2008. While we have come to accept Thailand, Vietnam and even Indonesia as having gained competitiveness against Malaysia in recent years, we are suffering ignominy of attracting lower FDI compared to the Philippines for the first time ever in history. The Philippines attracted US$1.95 billion in FDI compared to Malaysia's US$1.38 billion.

Among Southeast Asian nations, we are now only attracting more FDI than Cambodia, Myanmar, Brunei, Laos and Timor-Leste. And for the first time ever, what was previously unimaginable that we may one day be compared to countries such as Cambodia and Myanmar is now a real possibility.

2. Compared to the previous year 2008, Malaysia suffered by far the biggest decline of FDI in Southeast Asia

3. Malaysia was the only country in Southeast Asia to have register a net negative Foreign Direct Investment Flow

4. For the first time ever, cumulative Outward FDI Stock exceeded cumulative FDI Inward Stock

5. Barring a “blip” in 2001 when we attracted only US$0.55 billion in FDI, this is the first time we've attracted less than US$2 billion in FDI over the past 20 years