This usually happen to old cars with manual transmission and their handbrake is unable to hold the car’s weight anymore against the pulling force of gravity.

What you could do when you are facing this situation next time, engaged in a gear in opposite direction of your car is being pulled away. For example, if you car is rolling backwards slowly when you release your brake even though with your handbrake on, engage any forward gear.

Not an issue for automatic transmission car because they have the P (Park) to lock in gear ration in gear segment.

Not a good idea if your car engaged in gear and you want to show off your car has remote engine starting control to your friends as they will have a long lasting impression on you with your dumb act.

Often I see the passenger just keep quiet, sometimes sleeping and driver is driving alone going through massive traffic condition in the heart of Kuala Lumpur.

They can be a couple, parent and child or friends.

If only the passenger is tired and fell asleep or not in a good mood due to a bad day in office, that is okay.

Would not it will be better if both start a conversation during a long, pressurized, bored journey to their destination?

Let me list down the positive points:

• Both get to know each other more and well
• Kill the boredom and in-car awkward silent moment
• Improve relationship quality (boyfriend & girlfriend, husband & wife, parent and child, friends, BFFs, domestic, partners)
• Healthy conversation or argument (sort it out in limited space and time to avoid prolong issue)
• Prevent driver to fall asleep after a tiring day in a massive traffic congestion

Some negative points:

• When a conversation gone wrong, raise of tone and volume in a confined space within a vehicle which can cause ear bleeding, deafness, and death
• When no conversation going on, driver is tired after spent all the energy for better productivity during work, therefore, will fall asleep while driving, crash onto other cars, barrier, jump off the bridge, crash and die. And therefore, killing the passenger too.
• Discussion went bad, passenger got down the car and ran away, got adopted by alien, mat rempit, got robbed, raped, killed. News headline publish next day. Epic.

Seems like a positive action to have a conversation in a vehicle during a journey to your destination.

Do you?

Some lift has longer waiting period on their door’s motion sensor before it closes. If nobody presses the close button, basically everybody in the lift are wasting their precious time, staring at each other awkwardly, smelling each other’s fart, putting more strain on your neck as you only look down the floor or up the ceiling and ended up being slapped and accused for sexual harassment for staring, fainted due to overdose on inhaling methane with hydrogen and ammonia, and neck pain that is more severe than formula one drivers sustained in a high speed corner at Istanbul Park circuit at turn 8 for more than 5g.

It is very frustrated when this is happening. Why can’t just the person closest to the button press the close button and rather to wait?

Through my observation, people that don’t like to press the button are usually higher position personnel in an office building. They think they are the boss, yes they might be, pressing the lift button for others is like a low class job for them, and so they just ignore it.

Another type of people that will rather wait for the lift door close automatically is elderly people. For them, what is the point for rushing? A few seconds don’t make a difference.

My humble suggestion and opinion, the person that come in last should always have the courtesy to press the close button. If the operational panel is unreachable, the person that stands next to the panel should have the courtesy to press the button.

If you think you are so high class and will not press the button for others, please don’t stand next to the operation buttons. Best yet, build your own building with private lift, have an operator operate the buttons for you. Or just stop taking the same lift with some low class people like me that probably will downgrade your image and put you into tabloid headlines by just standing next to you.

In our highly competitive business world, everything is about efficiency and accuracy. Try asking someone to surf the net with 14.4kbps while we can get a fast broadband connection. Try asking Usain Bolt to run slower than 10 seconds in 100 meters, of course he can because he can run a world record of 9.58 in 100 meters. But if you are as fat and only exercise your index fingers for mouse clicking and typing (yes I type with index fingers only) as me, and want to run a competitive time for 100 meters in less than 10 seconds, hell no!

Just do me, maybe not for me, but at least for yourself a favour whenever you are in this situation, get in the lift last, have the courtesy to press the close button. Or if you are standing closest to the operation panel, press the close button for others immediately after the last person got onboard.

Educate others. Thank you.

Of course there are so many ways we can earn extra cash to cover our budget and cut down our spending by shop lesser, spend lesser to bring our budget down. In my opinion, there is one more tip than people often overlooked.

Your meals! Your breakfast, lunch, dinner and including snacks and tea time. The routine which everybody will need to go through every day to get ourselves charged up and keep us going throughout the day.

Spend less on your meals, buy less or stop buying junk food during snake snack and tea time. Cut down or eliminate on dessert after meals.

Cut down or not to order any drinks during meals. I believe most of our offices has pantry and provides hot or warm water, bring your own coffee or tea and make use of it to make your drinks, instead of spending extra cash on it in restaurant.

These little money that don’t really make a difference at one glance, what is a little of RM1-RM2 to you from your whole sum of salary can make an impact? Because you are doing it as a routine during meals, you would be surprised how much you can save.

Average example:

Breakfast: RM2 on food + RM1 on drink = RM3
Lunch: RM5 on food + RM2 on drink = RM7
Dinner: RM7 on food + RM2 on drink = RM9

Daily spending = RM19, weekly spending = RM133, monthly spending = RM570

Minus drink average example:

Breakfast: RM2 on food = RM2
Lunch: RM5 on food = RM5
Dinner: RM7 on food = RM7

Daily spending = RM14, weekly spending = RM98, monthly spending = RM420

You saved RM5 daily, RM35 weekly, and RM150 monthly compared to your routine meal spending!

Let’s take a look at extreme case that you cut down on drinks and meals. Cut down on meals doesn’t to eat less, but to make wiser choices on food, or bring food from home.

Breakfast: Homemade sandwich = RM1.50 (RM0.80 for whole meal bread, RM0.70 on toppings)
Lunch: RM4 on food = RM4
Dinner: RM5 on food = RM5

Daily spending = RM10.50, weekly spending = RM73.50, monthly spending = RM315

You saved RM8.50 daily, RM59.50 weekly, and RM255 monthly compared to your routine meal spending!

It is a challenge to cut down on your favorite meals and drinks, but if you are running low on cash and over shot your budget, that is even harder to survive with.

Maybe you have better ideas on cutting down on something and save more cash, share with me!

What happen was he noticed the rider behind him requested him to pullover, indicate him with some fierce gestures suggesting him that he has knocked the rider’s motorbike.

As far he could remember, he didn’t knock anybody while he was on the road, he was unsure what to do and before he can think of anything, those three riders is riding along side with him at the front, side and back, maneuvering him to pullover at the side of the highway. He had no choice but to put his car on stand still.

He was forced to step out of his car and accused for knocking 1 of the rider’s bike and demand for a sum of RM250 as compensation fee. All of the riders were holding a helmet in their hand. He wished not to get into any trouble and paid them off.

I believed this is one of the tactics to target lone driver during non peak hours. Some even miraculously fell down in front of your car and as if they got knock by you and demand for compensation.

These assholes are getting more aggressive and commit robbery at will. I wish them to get knock over by car, run over by heavy duty lorry, smash their body into pieces, crush their skull, squeeze every juice out of their brain and eye balls, get poured by petrol and set fire on them.

Please save this hotline of Malaysian Control Centre’s (MCC) number into your cell phone,

• 03-2262 7555
• 03-2262 6555

Some of them had used this number before said that it is very useful as police cars came from different direction within minutes as the police will direct the call to nearest police station for the officers to in charge of the matter.

Better be safe than sorry.