Sugar sugar oh honey honey...

I was reading an article on Malaysia and Singapore. Yes, Malaysia is just stones away from Singapore. However, the relationship has never been good. At least from an "outsider" point of view. They argued on the building of the bridge on the causeway. Malaysians always threatening to shut the water of Singapore (they drink,eat, wash using water from Msia) unless singaporeans are willing to gulp the salt water from the sea and now, it is about SUGAR?:O What is wrong with people these days? Can't they even say yes on something?

Nation
Monday April 10, 2006


‘Sugar ban’ ‘notice not up, Singaporeans unaware of ruling

By FARIK ZOLKEPLI



JOHOR BARU: It was sweet sorrow at the Causeway checkpoint. Singaporeans who bought sugar here were stopped from taking it home.

“Is there a ban?” they asked Customs officers who confiscated their packets of sugar.

The Singaporeans said there were no signboard to tell them they could not bring along the item when they travel back home across the Causeway.

Sugar costs RM1.40 per kilo in Malaysia while in Singapore the same amount is sold at between S$1.05(RM2.37) and S$1.60(RM3.60).

The hordes of Singaporeans who come here usually put sugar on their shopping list.

Motorist Jeremy Ng, who regularly shops and plays golf here, said he was not aware of the sugar ruling, as there were no notice at the checkpoint about the matter.

“I don’t know that we are not supposed to take sugar out of Malaysia,” he said, adding that he often shops for groceries in Johor though not necessarily for sugar.

Technician Johari Mohd said he had heard something about a ban but brushed it aside as he thought it was just “empty talk.”

“I did not pay much attention to it, especially when there was no signage at the checkpoint when you enter or exit the causeway,” he said.

“I always buy sugar here as it is considerably cheaper.

“Now, I have to cross it out from my grocery list,” said Johari, 28.

Another Singaporean, who only wished to be known as Kit, said he was stopped at the checkpoint on Saturday as he was sorting out several packets of sugar.

“I did not know about the ruling and there was no signage to inform me about the ban,” he said, adding that he buys about 10kg of sugar from Johor each week.



Asked about the matter, state Customs director Sarmin Md Hussin said the department would put up the signage before April 21, when those who bring sugar out of the country would be fined.



On Friday, Customs director-general Datuk Abdul Rahman Abdul Hamid announced that from April 21, those caught bringing out sugar from the country would be fined RM100 per kilo.



He said that at the moment there would be no fines, just seizures, to give people time to adjust to the new ruling.



A day earlier, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had said the Government was stepping up enforcement against those hoarding sugar and raising the price of the controlled item.

Okay this is ridiculous. I wanna say something about singaporean first. Sugar. An essential in our daily life. Car is just a mere piece of metal (to me). Comparing to the two things, which one is more expensive?! Singaporeans are known to be suckers for exotic and luxury vroom vrooms. So why the F they wanna buy sugar in Johor which is cheaper than everything on the menu of coffee bean? Why did they always complain that Johor is a nasty and high crime rate place yet they are getting their essentials from such shit hole claimed by most singaporeans? I can't never get it. Sometimes we cannot control what comes out of the mouth but in the end, it is always down to how much we have in the pocket. There's a chinese saying that we always use "if horse dies, we get down and walk". Ya, Johor can be a nasty place and you still go there because you do not have a magic wand to increase the cash in your wallet!

Malaysians. We always threaten to shut the water of Singapore. Hello?They are paying us for the water. They don't drink free water. They drink EXPENSIVE water that comes out of their pocket, from paying monthly bills to taxes! We only need to pay so little for water yet we usually abuse whatever things that are given to us. How pathetic. We should be blessed with what nature has provided us. We must not take things for granted.

Malaysia and Singapore used to battle on the claim of the land of the causeway. There were ongoing disputes on this matter.

Water

then

causeway

later

sugar

after that???

orang utans,lizards,lions, tigers, zebra???

Mana tahu suddenly a lizard left its tail in singapore? Then how?:| Who is the rightful owner?

Why don't mother nature just F-ing separate the two countries like one in north atlantic and another south? Wouldn't that be nice. We can go across the world to visit our relatives.