Deciphering Honks

This could be the most annoying sound, or the sweetest music; depending on how you interpret it.  Some turned road bully after being honked, where some gently gave way when being honked. 

Interpreting honks are sometimes more difficult than understanding baby talk.  There is no official guide to honk.  Googled and found one similar article talking about horn honking from Margaret Ross.  Read here.

I shared some of the common honk etiquette.  And love the honking terms used by Margaret, Tap, Toot, Horn, Blast.  To put into local Malaysia context, creating further honking guidelines.

• One Short Light Honk (Tap) - A polite courtesy reminder / call.
• Two Short Light Honks (Toot?) - Greeting to friends
• One Short Honk (Horn?) - Be Careful
• Continuous Long Honk (Blast) - Danger!  Watch Out!
• Continuous (Two Short Honks) Don't cut queue, get out of my way!
• Continuous Short Honk (Tap, Tap, Tap) - For motorcycle.  Motorcycle is coming in between the cars, cars do not cut out of lane.
• Continuous (One Short Honk, One Long Honk, One Short Honk) - Warning for motorist, suspicious motorcycle around, beware of robbers.  Similar to SOS in Morse Code.

Inputs are welcomed!

Malaysia GE13 - Moving Forward

Not going to talk about the hot topics of electoral frauds, hantus, gerrymandering, blackouts, tsunami ...  What I wish how Malaysia can move on after GE13.

For the Federal Government:
One common objective for both BN and PR is to move Malaysia out of middle income trap and gear towards a high income developed country.  However, from voting analysis, it's clearly shown that this is a government elected by rural folks. 

Question to ponder, how do we expect low/middle income group rural folks decide how to gear Malaysia towards high income and developed nation?

For today's globalized economy, 5 years is a very long time.  If we remain unchanged in the next 5 years, our neighboring country of Indonesia, Philippine, Vietnam can easily overtake us. Hence, I always wanted to see a new federal government that is also including the bright minds from opposition parties.  Choose who is qualified for the job, and not who has connection to you.  Let the bright minds lead Malaysia towards our common goals.

For PR Governed States:
The 3 states had MB from different political parties, DAP for Penang, PKR for Selangor and PAS for Kelantan.  All three has their own policies in governing their states.  e.g. Penang is a CAT government, Kelantan and Selangor are ??

For us, it's confusing.  Isn't that PR has a common national manifesto?  Can PR also has a common state government policy, and get all 3 PR lead states to govern under one single set of policy?  You need to prove to us that PKR, PAS and DAP are not loose coalition, and you can rule under one common policy.

For Gerakan/MCA/MIC/etc.:
DAP and PKR suffered even worse election defeat than you all in previous elections.  Did they give up?  What they did was they stood with the people, and passed people's voice to the federal government.  They had never left the people, and they speak for the peoples. 

If you want your dignity and respect back, earn it!   Your respect is not measured by how many minister / deputy minister posts that you held or don't held.  It's whether you have the guts to speak the truth and what is right.  Learn from Ong Tee Keat, if the government is wrong, speak out and bring justice.  Don't cover your BN colleagues faults.  Also, don't live in denial world anymore, with today's technology and social media, photo evidences are every where.

Believe in seeking the truth and speak for the truth.  People will be back for you.

To the Rakyat:
I'm glad that PR lost Kedah.  If I'm voting in Kedah, I'll cast the same vote.  We rakyat is telling the political parties, get lost if you don't perform.  It's one big step forward for democracy, where the political parties will now realize, the power is in the hand of rakyat.

We will continue to stand up and fight for what is right, via the right channels and the Ubah / Tukar choice is in our hands.

We also need to learn to be more mature is accepting and sharing information.  Don't take all online information came to us on face value.  Also don't let our emotion click the "Share" button for us, verify the information, understand the contents, make a conscious decision before clicking the "Share" button.

Identity Crisis (Ruling Party, Opposition Party)

When a PR DUN candidate in Selangor shouting UBAH UBAH on stage, what's do he want to ubah?  Change the state government?

When BN leaders shouting "Opposition is liar!" in Selangor and Penang, who are they referring to?

The BN poster said, "Please vote PM".  But is there any PM in this election period?

Why Selangor PR DUN candidate keep attacking the government and saying that the government is corrupted?

Why Selangor/Penang BN DUN candidates keep saying that the opposition cannot be trusted?

What do you call Pakatan Rakyat if Pakatan Rakyat is the new government?  People's Government or Pakatan Government?

What do you call Barisan National if Barisan National is no longer in national?  Barisan Rakyat?  Barisan Alternative?

iAES - itelligent Automated Enforcement System

From date of roll out, AES did not come shy of news coverage, be it the contractors, the offenders, the courts, the opposition, the government and now the AG.

While solving all the currently issues, I believe there is another area that can be improved in order to better meet the AES implementation objectives - to reduce traffic offends thus reducing road accidents.

What I think the AES still lack off now is the intelligence in a typical speed limit enforcement.  In typical 110km/h highway, the authority claimed that AES will only start enforcing at 120km/h.  However, different vehicles types have different speed limit on the highway.  Passenger cars 110km/h, but lorry and bus are only 90km/h.

Even at 100km/h, an over-speeding lorry / bus can pose considerable danger to other road users.  And the impact of an accident involving lorry / bus is usually higher than normal passenger cars.  Why they are not under the enforcement scope of the AES? 

From the AES "demo" shown by the authority prior to the implementation, AES would be able to capture the photo of x number of speeding cars simultaneously.  Why can't the scope be further expanded to profiling of vehicle e.g. large vehicle and small vehicle, and further enforce speed limit of different vehicle profile to 90km/h and 110km/h respectively?  Let's not forget the bike too.  Hardly see any big cc bike that is not speeding on the highway. 

I don't believe technology limitation to be used as the excuse for not enforcing vehicle type speed limit enforcement. The millions can be better spent for a Automated Enforcement System, that has a brain in it.