Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Every One alert !!! dont hold phone even using handfree or loudspeaker

Well who knows, I almost got a saman today. Almost i mean...... paying under table to JPJ.

I heard alot of story about JPJ are very "clean" compare to Malaysia polis, i totally disagree as I have got with it more then twice, and they will just slander you which you are not allow to defense.

one which happen a while ago when back from Poppy with my friends driving. we meet up with JPJ and they request us to blow on the alcohol tester. the frist 3 time, then tester show ok, and the JPJ wont accept and keep asking my friend(driver) to blow again, with i think they did something to the tester. and finally the tester shows some result, and they slander my friend of over drink. well what can we say? under table with RM100.

Today, i on call with loudspeaker mode while driving, of cause, holding the phone on hand with steering wheel. Just on a corner turn from kuchai lama into KL Seremban highway, the JPJ suddenly jump out from the side and hit on my car back asking me to stop. I was told that i talk on a phone and i confese talking using loudspeaker.
Arr....what a stupid me!!!........there is where they start, you are not allow to take anything when driving, and loudspeaker is not allow as well.....i try to explain, but they keep threaten me of expensive saman will get. No choice that i need to pay for under table money for it again.

Well...a good experience of not to take the phone even you use loudspeaker or handsfree.....

Monday, May 11, 2009

Damm high parking rates at LCCT

today i go through a news with title "High Parking rate at LCCT". it attacted me hardly because i just came back last week from LCCT with cheap flight. and i encounter that the parking at LCCT is totally unreasonable expensive RM36 per day, even more expensive then my returned flight fare.

Well, what can I say? the parking is without shelter, the airport is far away from city, and parking is high. the only good thing i can think of is that the carpark is near to LCCT, which i believe everyone would rather pay less for park fee and walk more? Beside, we still havent include the tol plus petrol for it.

pay attention to the last sentence, amount the "cheapest"....Wow.... in the sense that, cheap service and facilities, with high charge rate right? and dont compare using currency conversion. other countries leaving standard are higher and income would definetely be high, with 1 to 1 convertion, the fare is killing..yet they still say cheapest among countries...what a funny statement.

lucky, that we still have cheap flight.

Malaysia Boleh!!Memang Boleh!!!!


The news i got from STAR newspaper:

High parking rates at LCCT

Story and photo by CHARLES FERNANDEZ



COMPARED with other airports like Singapore’s Changi and the Manila Inter-national Airport, parking at the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) in Sepang is considered high.

Frequent travellers claim that they have to fork out RM36 per day and RM40 if one uses the Touch & Go card.

David Tan from Puchong, in his e-mail said, for 24-hour parking, one only has to pay S$17.66 (about RM42) for a covered parking bay next to the Changi airport, 250 Baht a day (RM25) at the Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok and 50 pesos per day (RM3.80) at the Manila international airport.

“We can go on giving examples such as the Clark airport in the Philippines and the Jakarta airport and it will still show that parking charges at the LCCT are exorbitant,’’ he said.

Too expensive: Motorists parking their vehicles on road dividers at the LCCT in Sepang to avoid paying for using the designated bays at the car park.

In the case of Changi airport, the charges are for a covered car park next to the airport while Stansted Airport in London, the £8.70 (RM46) charge includes a complimentary shuttle.

“We are charging very high when the car park is not covered although it is close to the airport,’’ said C.W Tang.

Tang, who had just come back from an overseas trip, said he had to pay RM108 for parking at the LCCT for three days.

“The airport authorities should bring down the cost to encourage more people to use the facilities,’’ he added.

Tang said parking rates at the LCCT used to be RM1 for the first two hours and RM2 for every subsequent hour. This, he said, is not cheap as compared with other airports.

There are 1,350 open-air parking bays at the LCCT now.

Since January 2007, the charges were RM2 for the first hour or part thereof with a motorist paying a maximum of RM4 for two hours.

However, from the third hour onwards, a motorist would have to pay RM2.50 and a cumulative sum of RM36.50 until the 16th hour.

“From the 16th to the 24th hour, the charges remain the same and the hourly rate will be reapplied after every 24 hours,’’ said Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad senior general manager (operation services) Datuk Azmi Murad.

He said the parking rates were inclusive of the 5% service tax as required by the government.

Azmi refuted claims that the cost of parking at the LCCT was high as compared to other airports.

“Travellers must understand that they have the option of parking very close to the airport. Our parking rates are also cheaper compared with many other international airports where the facilities are much lower in standard,’’ added Azmi.

He said there were not many airports that had their parking lots close to the main building and therefore it was unfair to make comparisons even if there were those which provided covered parking lots.

Azmi said MAHB frequently carried out comparison studies on parking charges at other international airports and had found that the charges at the LCCT were among the lowest.