Look at the pitches these articles give. Tell me if you get different messages from them.
The Star says Govt has stopped paying petrol subsidies: Shahrir and The Malaysian Insider says Malaysians are now paying petrol tax.
The Malaysian Insider has 28 comments at the time of this writing… Interactivity. Something traditional media should look into?
To remember in the future:
“After the station operators take their margin of 12.1sen and the oil companies take their margin of 19.1sen, we are left with RM1.69 from RM2.
“If the refinery price is RM1.30 per litre for example, the Government will be taking 39sen per litre as revenue.”
Posted on 11/11/2008, 4:55 am, by Colin Charles, under
Life.
Khairil (its weird not just typing kaeru) says:
there is a good Korean saying, “There is no friendship between a guy and a girl” :)
The Korean’s are a smart lot. Apparently, in the old days (~25-30 years ago?), people got marriage proposals after five dates (in Asia, at least). Yes, you read that right – five dates. Well, you were engaged to be married, anyways…
Fast forward to the 21st century. What do we see? The idea of platonic relationships, dates stretching on for years, casual partnerships, “it’s complicated”™ relationships, et al
When did life get so complicated? Why?
p/s: the word platonic is interesting too. the OED defines it as:
( platonic) (of love or friendship) intimate and affectionate but not sexual : their relationship is purely platonic.
I think that the word is culturally redundant in 90% of Asia. (OK, I pulled the 90% statistic out of my arse)