I had studied these interpretations and they make more sense than the established interprestations. We should return to the quran, and interpret the meanings literally because Allah commands us. Anyone disobeying this command will go astray.
I may agree with the interpretations of the quran as explained in this website but it does not mean that I will change my practise.
"To
justify this alteration of God’s words, these interpreters claim that
the Quran is not easy to understand, and that only they are able to
decipher its mysteries!
Needless to say, this claim is totally in violation of God’s description of the Quran as a clear and easy to understand book:
"A.L.R. These are the signs of the clear book" 12:1
"We have made it (the Quran) easy to understand and in your own tongue (language) may you take heed." 44:58
With
the above in mind, we inquire: what did God prohibit regarding the pig?
Are we prohibited from eating any part of the pig? or just the meat of
the pig?"
It makes sense that only edible parts are haram, but this website only indicate bones as no haram, so hair and skin are also haram. However, to be on the safe side, I shall not use any part of the pig but I cannot clain that dried bones are also haram after hundreds of years as fossils. Common sense dictates that the bone should be harmless especially with special care.
This is a good summary but not complete. Trump will implement what many Muslims have accused USA to be doing. Now their prayers will be answered.
1)TRUMP will demand IRAQ oil for free.
2)TRUMP will get out of Afghanistan and Iraq.
3)TRUMP will even abandon Saudi Arabia.
4)For ASEAN, especially the Philippines, TRUMP will get out of the Pacific Ocean and will allow China to control the entire South China Sea.
5) FTA will be abandoned. USA will tax all ASEAN goods. Many Malaysians, especially the oppostion will be happy but the implication is the reduction in world trade.
"We feel convinced that the consequences of this really revolutionizing vision of truth will bring about a radical transformation in German life. For the first time in our history, The German people have found the way to a higher unity than they ever had before; and that is due to the compelling attraction of this inner feeling. Innumerable prejudices have been broken down, many barriers have been overthrown as unreasonable, evil traditions have been wiped out and antiquated symbols shown to be meaningless. From that chaos of disunion which had been caused by tribal, dynastic, philosophical, religious and political strife, the German nation has arisen "
Hitler's acceptance speech is similar to Trump's speech.
"I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be President for all Americans and this is so important to me.
"For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, I’m reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so we can work together and unify our great country."
Both talked about Unity in a new vision of turth, but what a Unity.
Hitler talked about jewish unfairness.
Trump talked about unfair immigrants.
All are without any factual base and yet they were both voted in power in a bloodless revolution.
It shows to you how advanced Sabah was compared to Malaya. This is not the only example. Our radion communication was also among the most advanced in the world. These are of special importance to me as I live in front of the Sandakan Yacht Club and worked in the compound of the aerial farm where the original radio communication was first set up.
Sabah sailors make clean sweep at regatta
Ahmad Yusoff celebrates with other members of the SAILA team as he
lifts the Hales Trophy. On the left is SYC commodore Richard Lim
SANDAKAN: The oldest regatta in Malaysia, the 63rd edition of the
Borneo Interport Regatta, was successfully held here last weekend.
“This regatta which is the oldest in Malaysia, in my opinion, is one
of the most successful events in Sandakan this year,” Sabah Sailing
Association (SAILA) technical adviser and Chief Umpire Leonard Chin said
during the closing ceremony at the Sandakan Yacht Club.
Leonard congratulated the Sandakan Yacht Club (SYC) for having done a good job in organizing the regatta.
The last regatta held in Sandakan was more than 40 years ago.
He also thanked the Royal Malaysian Navy and Marine Police for
providing their assets in ensuring the safety of sailors during the
regatta.
“The Borneo Interport Regatta has been traditionally participated by
sailing clubs and associations from Sabah, Sarawak and Brunei Darussalam
since 1954.
“However, I hope we will invite sailing clubs from East Kalimantan for this event in the future,” Leonard said.
Nearly 60 sailors and officials from SAILA, Kinabalu Yacht Club,
Royal Malaysian Navy Yacht Club Kota Kinabalu (NYCKK) and SYC took part
in the regatta held at the sea fronting SYC last weekend.
SAILA dominated the two-day regatta, making a clean sweep of the three sailing events.
The umpire team was led by Leonard and assisted by former Sabah Sukan Malaysia sailor Mabel Lim.
In his speech, SYC commodore Richard Lim commended the organizing
team led by SYC rear commodore James Leong for successfully organizing
the regatta.
Lim also thanked Sabah Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Haji Tawfiq
Datuk Seri Haji Abu Bakar Titingan, sponsors, Royal Malaysian Navy,
Royal Malaysian Marine Police and all the participating teams.
The Borneo Interport Regatta 2016 ended with the Hales Trophy won by
SAILA, followed by KYC and NYCKK in second and third places
respectively.
For the Dusty Millar Trophy, SAILA ranked first followed by NYCKK and
SYC. In the Borneo Optimisit Regatta Trophy, SAILA came in first,
followed by KYC and SYC in second and third places respectively.
The Sandakan Darts Trophy and Sandakan Optimist Darts Trophy were won by SYC and KYC respectively.
Warning.
PAYPAL no longer has purchase protection. I no longer can access it. It
refers to eBay, but eBay no longer has protection. The supplier can set
the delivery date to 1 year, so that you no longer can get any
protection.
The most reliabile online purchase is alipay,
aliexpress and those controlled by Jack Ma. Lazada should be reliable
now, its terms are clearer and more buyer friendly.
"Water resistance test: Both the iPhone 7 and Note 7 survived being dunked in water, but both suffered from some muffled audio afterwards."
Imagine, this is 2016. I had my Sony Xperia Acro S, that was waterproof since 2013. That was my first Smartphone using Android. It was also very strong, surviving drop tests easily.
It was not just water resistant, it was actually waterproof. I took photos while underwater, despite me having a few waterproof cameras.
The reason why I only buy waterproof items, are the peace of mind that they offer. Also they require less protection from water but especially fungus. Cameras are susceptible to fungus. I had many cameras and lenses being spoiled by fungus. Nowadays I protect my lenses inside freezer bags filled with silica gels. Still a few lenses got fungus. My waterproof cameras and phones do not suffer from fungus.
Probably because of the seals, the waterproof items are also drop resistant. Shock forces can be absorbed by the rubbery seals. The waterproofing will deteriorate with time especially when you keep on opening the seals for charging or listening to headphones. I had bad experiece with my first waterproof mobile phone the Siemes. After a while the charging seal was broke or missing.
That is why I like he Acro S because it has a charging dock that does not require opening the USB seal. Later on we had Xperia V, Xperia Z1, Z2 and Z3. All are provided with external charging docks.
The Z1,Z2,Z3 and Z4 are provided with magnetic charging docks that are only slightly more reliable than the purely contact based Acro S and V.
Unfortunately Z5 does not have the magnetic charging dock so I am going to skip this model, prefering the Z4. Starting from Z2, Sony provides self sealing headphone jacks but I do not trust this type of seal but it should be more reliable than the seals that can be opened because they keep on becoming torn, so I had to order a few replacements for Xperia Acro S and V. Even Z1 and Z2 but so far, the USB seals for them are still undamaged so it was a waste of money.
My son not only destoryed his seal, he destroyed the USB socket itself becasue he refuses to use the cheap charging dock for his Xperia V. We only bought one original dock that costs RM200, because there are no cheap clones. Only wooden clones that are not reliable and charges very slowly.
When his elder brother gave him a Galazy A5, which does not have any external points for charging, I bought for him the universal wireless charger. So far so good but his fast charger is not fully utilised. The wireless charger charges more than 5 times slower.
In future, I shall only buy phones that are waterproof but also equipped with wireless chargers because even Sony has abandoned the external docks. We are left with wireless charges that tend to be much slower n charging but it is not a big inconvenience becasue most of the time we charge overnight.
Sony tend to have large batteries so we do not need to charge frequently, but I find that I still need to charge once a day if we use it heavily. When we use it for GPS navigation, the battery does not last long enough for the whole journey, despite us having on board chargers and battery cases.
Tahun ini, 4 kali aku tidak dapat bayar minum dan makan ku direstoran. 3 kali di Islamic, Jumbo, sekali di Nuryana, Gaya street. 2 kali dapat bayar balik. 2 kali terakhir, lupa langsung. Nasib baik ingat balik. Tukang jual pun sudah lupa.
Punca nya, terlupa walet. Walupun dalam walet ada IC. Kali ini, aku simpan duit di beg kunci pula sebagai backup. Dalam beg kunci ini lah aku sudah simpan driving license sebagai backup untuk IC.
What is clearly shown by that view and witnesses, is that the world considers HOSPITALS AS LEGITIMATE TARGETS.
It makes sense in a war that in order to defeat your enemy is to hit hospitals first. Then all those injured will be killed as well. It is no longer sufficient to just win over land, but now, the best way to win is to kill everyone of your enemy.
It is must a horrible situation but this is the reality. We must wake up to the reality. Welcome to the real world. If you try to be nice, you will be killed. We must retaliate in kind when we go to war.
Free or paid counseling services. They can provide letters to refer to specialist psychiatry hospital such as QEH, for medication. Normal clinic also can issue referral letter to the Psychiatry Clinics in our hospitals such as: http://qeh.moh.gov.my/v6/index.php/ms/hubungi-kami
I bought two DVR from a supplier that is unreachable now and another from Fireking. They all claimed to use the Novatek 96650 chipset with F2.0 front camera capable of FHD, full HD, i.e. 1080p.
I tested them, and they all are capable of using 32Gbye memory cards and use similar 2.5mm jack plug to connect to the rear camera. Power is by means of a micro USB connector. The one supplied by Fireking is right angle so it does not interfere with the roof of the car.
The Fireking is the best. It is capable of 1 Megapixel pictures and therefore 800p video which is better than HD at 720p. In the HD video recording mode, the video achieves 700p.
IT problems. There are 2 netbooks, provided by SKMM to my brother's family. One is a lenovo netbook with N2700 CPU and 2 GB RAM, which is faster than my netbook a Toshiba with N450 CPU and 1Gbyte of RAM that I bought for RM1400.
Both were unuseable for years because one had a screen that is inverted and another with a forgotten password.
Despite visiting my house for a few times and us visiting their house a few times also, these problems were not mentioned to me, but yesterday, they showed these netbooks to be me.
My brother is a graduate Fishery officer. My sister in law works for the federal department as pembantu pegawai tadbir. My nieces who use one of the netbook are full boarding school attendees and yet they they and her IT department cannot solve the problem.
I solved them in less than 1 hour, just before leaving the house because I had to go to the TM openhouse.
The inverted screen is solved by just googling. The forgotten password is solved by just reading the manual and looking at the one key restore. Luckily the simplified user guide is still available. I wanted to look for the useguide online because I forgot how to operate the one key recovery for a Lenovo. I have a lenovo laptop also.
Just imagine a family that is not so well educated or talented, given netbooks or PCs? I do not think they can handle them. The IT departments are also hopeless. They can only handle standard problems where they are trained.
It is so easy for me. Just search the internet. Why can't they? My computer engineering students also have the same problem, even the final year ones. Maybe there is something about the art of searching.
The art of searching was based on searching for fragments of words and let users decide which ones are the correct one. I wrote a program to do similar search for Sandakan TM's bad debtor's check by utilising dBAse II partial string compare, even before Yahoo and later Google search appeared.
We need a system which can self correct even when there is no search being given. e.g. when the screen is inverted for prolong duration. Or password entered wrongly for a few times and PCs unused for a long time. It is simple to program. It is just a matter of putting the simple program as part of the protocol of the operataing systems. It will help a lot in making PCs and computers useable.
" If Elon Musk’s various projects are so fabulous, why do they all need government “help”?"
Because there are much more subsidies given to gas guzzlers that continue to pullute and poison the world. Without any protection, Elon Musk can still make money, but at a slower pace, thus allowing the gas guzzlers to continue polluting the world even longer.
It has never been a question of Electricity taking over Gas Guzzlers. It is just a matter of time. It is just that we need to speed up the process by subsidising the electric and other clean energy sources of energy.
It is not actually subsidising, we actually just has to pay for the effects of allowing the gas guzzlers to continue dumping poison into our atmosphere without any restriction at all. Just imagine a scenario where everybody is allowed to throw rubbish all over the places without any restriction at all and without any cost.
There are two ways of solving the problems. One way is just to pay to clean the rubbish which we already do. By cleaning the rubbish, we prevent diseases such as cholera from becoming prevalent. We do not do that with the gas guzzlers. As a result we suffer from chronic respiratory diseases that are known as well as unknown. The medical costs are subsidies that we all pay in order to allow the gas guzzlers to operate without any restriction in dumping poison to the atmosphere. This line of argument is used by Elon Musk and it does make sense. For less crowded places like Sabah, the costs are negligible but for crowded places like Beijing, the gas guzzlers are making life unbearable to the point that clean air bottles are bought at high prices in Beijing.
This author is also dishonest. He did not explain the subsidies that SpaceX competitors had. Boeing and NASA had subsidies that are 1000 times more than what SpaceX had. Read Elon Musk's comments about this. As to SpaceX, despite being so innovative in delivering loads to space much more cheaply than NASA and its contractors, be told to compete with NASA that had subsidies from the US tax payers amounting to trillions of $. Is it fair? Can SpaceX or any other innovative startup space technology companies compete against such highly subsidised companies and survive? Absolute nonsense if you think they still can without any single help from the tax payers.
The subsidies to these other companies may not be so obvious but just look at the subsidies that GM got from tax payers in order to save it from bankrupcy and later on continue producing gas guzzlers. Also imagine the subsidies that were doled out to banks that had created the worst financial disaster the world has even seen. What is 4.5 billion US $ compared to the trillions of US $ spend on worthless and more damaging causes. As damaging as the subsidies given to the US military that destroy the world without solving much of anything. We can always use arguments that justify the subsidies but why should we ignore the more valid and worthwhile causes of Elon Musk companies that need to be supported in the wake of worst and more substantial subsidies dole to his competitors that are more keen on destroying the world by keeping existing and outdated practises.
"GM is happy to accept government “help” when
offered, but it is not necessary for taxpayers to bankroll the
production of Corvettes — nor provide thousands of dollars in cash
incentives to each prospective buyer in order to “stimulate” sales."
GM can also get similar subsidies as Tesla but why does it want them? Of course. GM prefers the easy subsidies without much string attached. Continue producing vehicles that can pollute the world while heavily subsidised by the tax payers.
"The real difference between Elon Musk’s operations and those of say
General Motors is that General Motors’ products are fundamentally viable
while Tesla’s are not."
This is a blatant lie and illogical. If it were viable, why does it need government help? It was not viable in the face of competition from more efficient car manufacturers such as Toyota, Honda and Nissan, that produce less polluting cars compared to GM.
To say that Tesla is not viable is just an accusation without any basis. The amount of subsidy is small compared to the price. Similar subsidies are also available for competing car manufacturers that produce the same type of vehicles, i.e. electric cars.
The typical Tesla “buyer” also has an annual income in excess of 1,006,300.00 MYR ( $250,000).
Why are taxpayers — the majority of
them not earning 1,006.30 MYR ( $250)k annually — being taxed to support
the “purchase” of electric exotic cars by extremely affluent people?
Ask them also if they are happy about the trillion $ subsidies doled to banks and GM? Certainly not, but the unhappiness is much less for the Tesla than for GM. Just because there are some happiness does not mean that the project is useless. It is a question of the lesser evil. We just cannot please everyone, and just because Tesla annoys a little of the tax payers does not mean that it is as useless as the other much much bigger recipients of subsidies. And yet, they author seem to think tha GM is justified in taking the much bigger and worthless subsidies compared to Tesla, a made and designed in USA product that is innovative and competitive compared to foreign cars such as BMW and Toyota. Absolutely nonsense and idiotic. 4.5 billion $ is a small price to support a promising company that will make US more competitive again instead of the trillion $ spent on GM and others that continue the provenly wrong and uncompetitive practises.
Elon Musk, Tesla, SolarCity, SpaceX CEO.. And Crony Capitalist King?
Elon Musk, Tesla, SolarCity, SpaceX CEO.. And Crony Capitalist King?
If Elon Musk’s various projects are so fabulous, why do they all need government “help”?
Shouldn’t Tesla — and Solar City and SpaceX — be able to stand on their merits … if they actually have merit?
That is, economic merit.
Tesla fanbois — and Musk himself —
will tell you all about the virtues of his electric cars. They are sleek
and speedy. This is true. But they are also very expensive (the least
expensive model, the pending Model X, will reportedly start around
140.88 MYR ( $35)k, about the same price as a luxury sedan like the
Lexus ES350) and have a number of significant functional deficits such
as a best-case range about half that of most conventional cars and
recharge times at least four to five times as long as it takes to refuel
a conventional car.
That’s if you can find a Tesla “supercharger” station. If not, then the recharge time becomes hours rather than half an hour.
But the real problem with Tesla cars is that no one actually buys them.
Well, not directly.
Their manufacture is heavily subsidized — and their sale is heavily subsidized.
Either way, the taxpayer (rather than the “buyer”) is the one who gets the bill.
On the manufacturing end, Tesla got 5.23 MYR ($1.3) billion
in special crony-capitalist “incentives” from the state of Nevada to
build its battery factory in Nevada. This includes an exemption from
having to pay any property taxes (unlike you and I) for the next 20
years. Another inducement was 784.91 MYR ( $195) million in transferable
tax credits, which Tesla could sell for cash.
California provides similar inducements — including 60.38 MYR ($15) million from the state of California to “create jobs” in the state.
Tesla does not make money by selling cars, either. It makes money by
selling “carbon credits” to real car companies that make functionally
and economically viable vehicles that can and do sell on the merits —
but which are not “zero emissions” vehicles, as the electric Tesla is
claimed to be (but isn’t, actually, unless you don’t count the emissions
produced by the utility plants that provide the electricity they run
on, or the emissions produced mining the materials necessary to make the
hundreds of pounds of batteries needed by each car).
Laws in nine states (including California) require each car company
selling cars in the state to sell a certain number of “zero emissions”
vehicles, else be fined. Since only electric cars qualify under the law
as “zero emissions” vehicles — and the majority of cars made by the real
car companies are not electric cars — they end up having to “purchase”
(quotes for the same reason that you are a “customer” of the IRS’s)
these “carbon credits” from Tesla, subsidizing Tesla’s operations and
adding to the expense of manufacturing their own functionally and
economically viable cars.
The amount Tesla has “earned” this way is in the neighborhood of 2,081.03 MYR ( $517) million.
In effect, Tesla is a newfangled taken on the welfare queen. Or more
accurately, the EBT card — which is designed to look like a credit card.
To have the appearance of a legitimate transaction … as opposed to a
welfare payment.
Underneath the glitz and showmanship, that’s what all of Elon Musk’s
“businesses” are about. They all depend entirely on government — that
is, on taxpayer “help” — in order to survive.
Without that “help,” none of Musk’s Teslas could survive.
" He “succeeds” only because of his ability to game the system, not by
offering products that people are willing to pay for (using their own
money, that is)."
The author seem to forget that Tesla cars are also best sellers in countries that offer little or no subsidies to Tesla.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/2016/04/27/germany-introduces-electric-car-subsidy-but-excludes-tesla/#440997023e99
These buyers are willing to pay the full price but getting subsidies is just a bonus to them so that they can buy some more eco friendly cars for their daily use. Instead of buying gas guzzlers that will pollute the environment, they will spend less time on poisoning. That is a worthwhile investment for all tax payers. These rich people are the worst offenders of the environment because they have more disposable income compared to the poor people or countries.
Elon Musk – the businessman
It is estimated that Musk’s various ventures — including his new
SolarCity solar panel operation and SpaceX — have cost taxpayers at
least 19.72 MYR ($4.9) billion, with Tesla accounting for about half of that dole.
Elon Musk fanbois will counter by pointing out that other businesses —
including the car business — also get “help” from the government (that
is, from taxpayers), which is perfectly true. But that’s not much of a
defense — much less a refutation of the charge that Musk is a crony
capitalist.
Which is all he is.
The real difference between Elon Musk’s operations and those of say
General Motors is that General Motors’ products are fundamentally viable
while Tesla’s are not. GM is happy to accept government “help” when
offered, but it is not necessary for taxpayers to bankroll the
production of Corvettes — nor provide thousands of dollars in cash
incentives to each prospective buyer in order to “stimulate” sales.
Tesla could not build a single car without the government’s help. Or
rather, the actual cost would be so prohibitive that virtually no one
would buy a Tesla.
As it is — even with massive subsidies at the manufacturing level and
then again at the retail level — each Tesla still “sells” at a loss of
several thousand dollars per car … and still carries an exotic car’s
price tag.
The typical Tesla “buyer” also has an annual income in excess of 1,006,300.00 MYR ( $250,000).
Why are taxpayers — the majority of
them not earning 1,006.30 MYR ( $250)k annually — being taxed to support
the “purchase” of electric exotic cars by extremely affluent people?
Why should taxpayers be made to subsidize any of Elon Musk’s “businesses”?
He’s a billionaire. And — we’re constantly told — a really smart guy.
Surely he could fund (or find) the private capital necessary to fund
his various projects. The fact that he could not find private — that is,
willing — investors but instead has to rely on the coercive power of
the government to fund his projects speaks volumes about the fundamental
worth of his projects.
He “succeeds” only because of his ability to game the system, not by
offering products that people are willing to pay for (using their own
money, that is).
The heroic real-life Tony Stark image notwithstanding, Elon Musk is an operator — not a creator of value.
Elon Musk has more in common with the vulture capitalist oligarchs of
the former Soviet Union than with the namesake of his electric car
company.
Elon Musk, Tesla, SolarCity, SpaceX CEO.. And Crony Capitalist King? by Eric Peters
Eric Peters has been covering the automobile industry since the ’90s and is the author of Automotive Atrocities and Road Hogs. His new book, Doomed, is scheduled for release next spring.
Recently I received a “Notis Tahanan & Perlatikan Agen
(PK1)” (refer figure1) from EMS to asked me go to collect my parcel from
Custom Department. The parcel is sent by my vendor from USA.
Sample
Figure1: Sample of Notis Tahanan & Perlantikan Agen (PK1)
Why My Parcel Onhold at Custom Department?
Ans:
The AWB [USPS-United States Postal Service] on top of the parcel show
the Total Value of 1,159.95 MYR ( 1,159.95 MYR ( $300))USD++ (Approximately RM1K++) in
which exceeded RM500 (will be taxable). The parcel shown as “High-value
goods” when I check through the EMS tracking shipment page.
Others reason may due to the customs needs
proof of the parcel exact value rather than based on the value written
on your AWB. In this case, you need to present the official or
commercial invoice to make the declaration for your parcel.
The others methods will be, asked your
sender to put the invoice in between or beneath the AWB to show the
value of your parcel without sending it personally to you.
How much I will be charged on top of that?
Ans: According to custom
officer, sanitary cloth pads (HS Code: 6307.90.100) required 20% import
duty + 10% sales tax + RM49.80 (EMS delivery charges??!!). Total up,
cost me nearly RM450. Woww !!! I get shocked because I didn’t expected
it will be so expensive.
What action I had took? Ans: I returned back the parcel to my vendor instead
let the custom department suck my blood! The custom officer allowed me
to return it back to my vendor by written “Return to Sender” + Signature
+ written down my IC in the custom printout form. The custom officer
told me they will sent it back using the same method as the vendor
shipped to me and the shipping cost will revert back to my vendor. I am
not able to shipped the parcel back to my vendor using my own PosLaju
account because the parcel did not release to me and still held in
custom department. What I had learned from this incident?
1) There are import rate + sales tax applied on top of the imported
parcel / merchandise which exceeded RM500. Check properly for the import
item categories as taxable or non-taxable items.[customs tariff]
2) Custom officer required the official invoice for custom
declaration. As an additional proof, they also need you to provide them
with your payment receipt to show them the exact amount you pay to your
vendor/sender in case they do not believed the value/amount stated
inside the invoice [I faced this issue as 1 middle aged lady from the
custom threaten me that I will be compound by showing the make up
invoice with no concrete proof {*speechless*}, that is why I returned
back the parcel back to my sender]. They encourage the user to make the
payment via credit card through paypal so that to show them the email by
paypal as proof.
3) You may request your shipper/sender provides you with a commercial
invoice as a proof to the custom department for the value of the
parcel. You may refer or download the SAMPLE OF COMMERCIAL INVOICE HERE. It is advisable to place your commercial invoice together with your AWB so that custom officer easy to find it.
Useful Information Sourced from [bicarahati.com] Tarif Bercukai dan Pengecualian. [Taxable Customs Tariff and Exemption] Penghantaran Melalui EMS[shipped through EMS]
Nilai Barang[Goods/Parcel Value] + Kos Pengeposan[Shipping Cost] = < RM 500 (Dikecualikan cukai)[non-taxable]
Nilai Barang + Kos Pengeposan = > Rm 500 (Dikenakan cukai sekiranya barang ditaksir bercukai)[taxable if goods declare as taxable items]
Nilai Barang + Kos Pengeposan = > RM 1000 (Jika Bercukai, akan dikenakan Borang Ikrar Kastam K1 dan dicukai)[if taxable item, required customs K1 form and taxable]
Nilai Barang + Kos Pengeposan = >RM 1000 (Tidak Bercukai, tidak dikenakan borang ikrar)[non-taxable item, not required customs declaration form]
Nilai Barang + Kos Pengeposan = > RM 2000 (Tidak Bercukai, Dikenakan Borang Ikrar Kastam K1)[non-taxable item, required customs K1 form]
Nilai Barang + Kos Pengeposan = >RM 10000 (Cukai atau tidak, Akan Kena borang K1A)[either taxable or non-taxable, required customs K1A form] Penghantaran Melalui Udara (Airmail)
Nilai Barang + Kos Pengeposan = < RM 500 (Dikecualikan cukai)
Nilai Barang + Kos Pengeposan = > Rm 500 (Dikenakan cukai sekiranya barang ditaksir bercukai)
Nilai Barang + Kos Pengeposan = > RM 1000 (Jika Bercukai, akan dikenakan Borang Ikrar Kastam K1 dan dicukai)
Nilai Barang + Kos Pengeposan = > RM 1000 (Tidak Bercukai, tidak dikenakan borang ikrar)
Nilai Barang + Kos Pengeposan = > RM 2000 (Tidak Bercukai, Dikenakan Borang Ikrar Kastam K1)
Nilai Barang + Kos Pengeposan = > RM 10000 (Cukai atau tidak, Akan Kena borang Ikrar Kastam K1A) Penghantaran Melalui Laut (Seamail)
Nilai Barang + Kos Pengeposan = < RM 200 (Dikenakan cukai sekiranya ditaksir bercukai)
Nilai Barang + Kos Pengeposan = > Rm 200 (Bercukai atau tidak, akan dikenakan Borang Ikrar Kastam K1) Borang Ikrar Kastam K1 tersebut turut memerlukan dokumen
sokongan seperti kebenaran atau Permit dalam kes-kes tertentu seperti
import handphone dan lain-lain berkaitan.[Customs K1 form required supportive documents (eg: permit) for certain specific cases for example imports hand-phones and etc.] Alternatives Solution To Avoid from Custom Duties:- 1) Request your vendor/shipper to shipped out the parcel with value less than RM500 (~$ 579.98 MYR ( 579.98 MYR (150USD))). 2) Request the vendor/shipper separated your parcel into few shipments instead shipped all at 1time.
3) Normally, proforma invoice prepared by vendor/shipper with rather
lower value than official invoice for custom clearance purpose.
4) Buy me a coffee and I will teach you how *Personally*. Ha~~ *** UPDATED BY 13 FEB 2012 ***
Will it still taxable if I labeled the parcel as gift, sample, used (second hand) or personal used?
Depends on:-
i) Customs Officers
ii) Your luck
iii) Parcel’s content
iv) Parcel’s declare value (including shipping cost) Below are some of the experienced I collected online:-
“It has nothing to do whether you label it gift, personal, used or so
on. Custom can tax whatever they want even if it is a gift, personal or
used item.”
“Customs officers told me that it is by chance. If they opened your
package and see that there a tags, they will impose tax based on the
value that your seller declare.”
“Actually, duty tax depend on the custom officer who evaluate your
parcel. It is up to him to accept or denied your explanation and
dispute, and it is up to him to believe you or not. Custom officer have
the rights to tax you base on the price that they believe (NOT by the
price your seller declared).”
“…to dispute the duty tax, you need to go to custom office. This is
not available if your seller using courier service, because for courier
service, if any LOW duty tax (for Malaysia, it is RM500), the custom
will clear it first and bill it to the courier company, the courier
company will then bill it to you when you get the item. Then it is not
negotiable/disputable anymore.”
“…get the sender to sent separately in envelopes instead of one huge
box. Customs are alerted when there is a box especially a huge box.
Sending in envelopes or small boxes are usually passed without tax. I
don’t know about large boxes of many items but for one item, customs
charge 10% on declared value + shipping.” Any golden rules or possibilities to avoid or escape from duty tax in legal way? 1. Break the shipment into a few small shipments, said one piece per shipment that not more than 0.5kg.
2. Ship via normal mail instead of parcel or courier.
3. If you do not want to be taxed, go under the less-than-RM500 rule.
4. If its value is high, split the items to the said price tab and get them shipped weekly.
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My sincere apologise if this article makes you misunderstood that I
am the custom expert. Please be informed that this is just for sharing
purposed.
The Korea Herald has reported that Apple has selected Samsung OLED displays for use in the 2017 iPhone.
Apple may have found a better screen technology in its new 9.7 in iPad Pro.
Business considerations probably weigh against a partnership with Samsung in any case.
Recent reports out of Korea that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) plans to use Samsung (OTC:SSNLF)
OLED displays for iPhone starting in 2017 ignore a number of technical
and business considerations. The common belief that OLED displays are
superior to LCD is debatable. Furthermore, the fierce competition
between Apple and Samsung argues against a supplier relationship that
would make Apple once again dependent on Samsung for a critical iPhone
component.
Since
Samsung and many other Apple competitors started using Active Matrix
Organic LED displays (AMOLED), it's become a common criticism of Apple
that its displays were inferior. This was pointed to by Apple critics as
yet another area where poor old clumsy Apple was falling behind the
times.
Apple has often been an early adopter of technologies such as AMOLED. In fact, one criticism I've heard is that Apple is merely
an early adopter, and doesn't originate technology development of its
own. Why then has Apple not jumped on the AMOLED bandwagon?
The
usual explanation is that Apple is just defending its margins, and LCD
offers lower cost compared to LCD. That might be true, but I'm not
convinced that would restrain Apple significantly. Also, AMOLED
manufacturers are arguing, with justification, that the bill of
materials is smaller. AMOLED displays are simpler, requiring no
backlight. If AMOLED really offered a superior display, Apple would
probably be attracted to it by virtue of being simpler, lighter and
thinner.
In fact, the claim that
AMOLED displays are superior ignores many of the problems with them, and
these problems are largely ignored by the media. The most important
problems with AMOLED are the limited display lifetime, especially of
blue pixels, and color and intensity non-uniformity across the display.
The
limited lifetime of blue OLED materials is well known and is the
subject of ongoing research. Dr. Steve Forrest, a researcher on the
subject at the University of Michigan last year summarized the state of the art. Blue pixels typically last less than 1% as long as the green and red pixels.
To
help blue pixels last longer, AMOLED screen makers typically make them
bigger, as can be seen in this magnified image of the Samsung display
layout used for the Galaxy S6 and S7.
OLED
pixels don't die a sudden death, but decline gradually in light output
from day one, depending on the amount of use and operating brightness.
For that reason, OLED displays are subject to burn in, which isn't a
problem with LCDs at all. What's burn in? If you need to ask, you're too
young to remember the olden times of pre-LCD televisions.
Burn
in is where a very bright image leaves a permanent after-image in the
screen. Screen savers were devised to reduce this effect by continually
changing the content of the screen. Screen savers stopped being
necessary once LCD displays became prevalent.
In
addition to burn in, AMOLED displays are subject to considerable
response non-uniformity, which can produce a grainy image when
displaying a uniform color. This problem is hardly ever treated in
reviews of AMOLED display. I've only seen one review that even broached
the subject, Ron Amadeo's review of the Blackberry (NASDAQ:BBRY) Priv in Ars Technica, which suffered from particularly severe non-uniformity.
Even
though reviewers tend to ignore the problem, one can find plenty of
anecdotal evidence that it's still an issue in various Android
discussion forums. Even Samsung's latest Galaxy S7
has received complaints. Complaints are not confined to the S7. One can
find similar complaints about almost any phone that uses an AMOLED
display, including the Nexus 6P, and the One Plus. In the the Galaxy S6: The Ugly Truth About Its Screen, one unhappy owner posted a series of photos detailing the problem, as shown below.
In his recent review of the S7's display,
Dr. Raymond Soneira (Displaymate) alludes to the improvement in
uniformity of the display, but offers no quantitative measurements. Dr.
Soneira provides excellent, comprehensive technical reviews, and I wish
he would address this issue. All displays, including LCD, suffer from
some non-uniformity artifacts of various types, and it would be
interesting to get a better feel for how Samsung's AMOLED displays
compare to other AMOLED and LCD displays.
Perhaps
the biggest drawback of OLED is that it's less power efficient than LCD
when the background of the display is mostly white. This is not an
uncommon scenario. When reading an ebook, or visiting most web sites,
the background is predominantly white.
Pointing to the Near Future
Dr. Soneira has generally favored OLED screens for having better color and contrast, but his recent review of the screen 9.7 inch iPad Pro
probably indicates where Apple is going for the next few years. The Pro
set new standards for LCD screens in terms of color gamut and
brightness. Color gamut pertains to the saturation and richness of the
color as seen by the human eye. Most displays don't achieve the full
range of color that the eye can perceive. The iPad Pro comes very close
to the gamut of the S7, which has been a key area of superiority for
AMOLED.
The Pro also is brighter
than the S7 when displaying an all white background. Although AMOLED has
higher contrast ratio (when viewed in the dark), the Pro's contrast
ratio when viewed in bright light conditions was actually better than
the S7. Under typical usage scenarios, the Pro provides a better
experience, and uses less power.
The reader is
probably wondering why Apple chose AMOLED for Apple Watch. Here, the
difference is usage scenario. Most of the time, the background of the
Watch is kept dark. In this scenario, AMOLED is more efficient, and this
would be a key consideration for Watch battery life. Most of the time,
users aren't reading a lot of text, such as an ebook, and messages can
be displayed with white characters on a black or dark background.
The
improvements in the 9.7 inch Pro display are so substantial that they
probably cancel any perceived advantage that AMOLED might offer in terms
of color accuracy and contrast. The sole advantage that AMOLED might
have is in being lighter and thinner. But this is offset by the need for
a larger battery to support use of the screen for light backgrounds.
For instance, the battery of the S7 is 3000 mAh vs. the 2750 mAh battery
of the larger iPhone 6s Plus.
Business Considerations
While
the technical considerations for AMOLED are debatable, business
considerations will probably have the final say. Apple and Samsung are
locked in a fierce and acrimonious competition. Apple has waged a legal
battle against Samsung's violations of Apple's patents. Apple is
shifting its processor production to TSMC (NYSE:TSM), even though it used Samsung for part of the production of the A9 processor for the iPhone 6s.
When
Apple signs up a supplier, it is in effect agreeing to share profit
with that supplier. Why would Apple want to share profit with Samsung?
The rumor really doesn't take into account the bad blood that must exist
between the managements of the two companies.
The rumor also doesn't take into account the recent purchase of Sharp by Foxconn (OTC:FXCOF), in which Apple may have played a part. Sharp was reported
to be the supplier of the screen for the larger iPad Pro, and I think
it's likely that Sharp is the supplier of the 9.7 inch Pro display as
well. Regardless of Apple's involvement with the Sharp purchase, I doubt
Foxconn would have bothered with Sharp if it didn't have a ready
customer in Apple for Sharp's display output.
This says at the very least,
Sharp/Foxconn will be the preferred supplier for Mac and iPad displays
for the next few years. Since volume is really in iPhone, probably
Sharp/Foxconn will be the preferred supplier for iPhone as well. I
consider this probable by virtue of the excellent display performance
achieved in the 9.7 inch iPad Pro.
Even if Apple
were to elect to use AMOLED for iPhone, it would probably prefer to stay
clear of Samsung and use its current supplier of AMOLED displays for
the Apple Watch, LG. LG was reported to be expanding its OLED production capacity, and this might have been in anticipation of increased demand for OLED for a future iPhone.
Investor Takeaway
The
rumor, coming as it does out of Korea, really amounts to a not very
subtle putdown of Apple. It's a statement that Samsung's display
technology is so superior that Apple will elect to use it despite all
that has transpired between the two companies.
I
seriously doubt it. I think it's possible that Apple may skip AMOLED
altogether in favor of an emerging technology, the quantum dot OLED or QLED.
The advantage of QLEDs would be that the blue pixel would be as
efficient and long-lived as the red and green pixels, thereby solving
one of the major problems of current AMOLED displays. Quantum dot
technology is already in use to improve the color gamut of LCD
backlights, and may even be used in the 9.7 inch iPad Pro.
Apple
doesn't have much to gain from using AMOLED, but it has a lot to lose
in terms of market credibility by turning to Samsung as a display
source. I believe Apple management fully realizes this and will steer
clear of Samsung. I remain long Apple and recommend it as a buy.
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My son complained that playing games on a PC is not as good as playing on a console such as XBOX360 or PS4. I persuaded them to use Steam to play games instead of paying exhorbitant prices for PS3/4 games. Much cheaper in Steam especially when there is a sale.
You need a PC Wireless Gaming Receiver. I ordered mine from Aliexpress.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/PC-Wireless-Gaming-Controller-USB-Receiver-Adapter-For-XBOX-360-Hot-New-Arrival/32436273952.html
22.37 MYR (US $5.54)
Install the drivers using this youtube instruction.
Install your device and it will tell that no device drive is found. Go to device drivers by searching for Device Manager. Look for unknow devices, right click it, Update Device Driver, Browse my computer for driver software, Let me pick from a list of device drivers, Microsoft Common Controller for Windows Class, Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows. Connect your wireless Xbox360 wireless controller to the gaming receiver. Use the following link. https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-on-windows/accessories/xbox-360-wireless-gaming-receiver-windows It involved pressing the setup button for a long time. A few seconds. Too short a time, it will not work. You can test it by going to the Devices and right clicking Gaming controllers, left clicking Game controller settings then properties.
Expedia.com allows you to search for the cheapest flights across all types of airlines.
https://www.expedia.com.my/
Better do the search using Expedia. It will tell you all the avilable options. After that you may book directly using the original airlines. One problem with Expedia is that it cannot pay for children under the age of 18. Make sure you book from Kota Kinabalu. Do not try to book from KL first. I found out that KK - Istanbul is the same price as KL - Istanbul, using Expedia and Qatar Airways.
http://www.qatarairways.com/global/en/homepage.page
I ended up booking using Qatar Airways from KK. Qatar Airways has joint venture with MAS for the flight to Istanbul. At RM2000 is almost the same price as to Seoul which costs RM1500 via KL. Direct flights to Seoul cost RM2300.
I got the idea from this company. He demonstrated the dashboard camera at City Mall, Kota Kinabalu. This dashboard camera can record both front and rear cameras. His cheapest, a Full HD recorder, costs RM300 without installation.
Sabahan importer of Dashboard camera and DVR
I started searching at the online stores. I bought two such DVR recorders with dual cameras and supposedly recording both of them at the same time. Mine only cost RM180 including postage, during cheap sale period, from Aliexpress.
I am not sure how good these cameras are but at this price, it is reasonable to experiment with. There are other versions with GPS but I do not see any sense in doing that. It may come handy as a navigation tool. Istallation is easy. Just fix the front camera and DVR to the rear view mirror and connect the charger to the cigerate lighter. It means that it is portable. The rear camera is more difficult to install but we can install it at the location of the third brake light or just stick it to the rear view mirror using a double sided tape. We should be able to install these cameras in rental cars also.
The DVR that I ordered is the second most expensive. It only lacks the antishake function and GPS. The reason why I ordered this more expensive version is its purported ability to record both front and rear cameras at the same time with various modes. Some cheaper versions do not have simultaneous modes. It also has the motion detection so that it can be used as a car theft alarm. For discussions and reviews of the various functions of car DVR by searching through google: "car DVR review".
I started by preparing to install rear view cameras but they are not so useful. Reverse sensors are just as useful. I had installed a DVR only but it did not last long because its battery ran out and I do not bother to see the recorded pictures. This time it is different. In one package we have a DVR and reverse camera at the same time. Hopefully its battery lasts long enough.
Following a glimpse of the Proton Iriz EV prototype in South Korea
last October, we now have the first pictures and initial specs of the
local carmaker’s very own electric vehicle. The Proton Iriz EV is
currently on display at the 2015 International Greentech & Eco Products Exhibition and Conference Malaysia (IGEM).
While the exterior looks familiar, the Iriz EV is a totally different
car underneath. Powering the car is a permanent magnet AC synchronous
electric motor that puts out the equivalent of 116 kW (155 hp) and 360
Nm of torque – the motor is juiced up by an LG-developed 39.6 kWh
lithium-ion polymer battery. This allows for a 0-100 km/h time of less
than nine seconds and a top speed of 150 km/h.
Other details in which the spec sheet lists is a 50 kW fast charging
and a 6.6 kW normal charging system. A 7.23 ratio for the single-speed
transmission is also noted. According to Proton, the battery can be
charged from 40% to full in just 15 minutes with a fast charger, four
hours with a public charger and seven hours with a standard three-pin
plug.
While it was previously claimed that the Iriz EV had a better range than the Nissan Leaf
(240 km versus 200 km touted by the latter), Proton now says that it
can cover more ground than that – a NEDC cycle-based operational range
of around 300 km is mentioned. An impressive figure considering that the
car weighs in at 1,380 kg – 195 kg heavier than the standard Iriz 1.6 Premium CVT (1,185 kg).
Elsewhere, the underfloor-mounted battery means that interior space
has not been compromised – the car even retains its spare tyre under the
boot floor. The gearknob is now a small, stumpy item that appears to
have been nicked off a third-gen Toyota Prius,
and there’s now a digital instrument display showing the speed, charge
status, power used/regenerative braking applied and even the battery
temperature.
Back in October 2014, it was revealed by Malaysia Automotive Institute (MAI) CEO, Madani Sahari, that one of the two proposed Malaysian-developed electric vehicles could be sold for under RM100k
when it hits the market. If all goes according to plan, the Iriz EV
could be officially introduced by the end of 2016/early 2017.
. His new book, Doomed, is scheduled for release next spring.
