我很想睡。。但是。。

现在大概是凌晨3点钟，但我还不能睡。不知道是不是最近的新闻还是什么的，总是觉得现在的马来西亚就不是以前的马来西亚。然而，油价又起了！马来西亚向后退了，别的国家是向前走的，但是马来西亚就是不一样，它已经是在向后退了。。。

可能是这个原因，我今天睡不着吧 :(

Merdeka..

It's Merdeka (Independence Day) for Malaysia tomorrow (31st August), but in fact, I don't feel the spirit yet. I don't even feel that Malaysia belongs to me. I just feel that I've been constantly told that I am an outsider, and if I don't like the way I was treated here, I should get out of the country.

You know, when I was studying in Canada, I was treated so much better in Canada than in Malaysia.

What's the difference? I am a student in Canada, where I was treated like a citizen there (first class). I am a citizen in Malaysia where I was treated like a second class.

Sigh..

Malaysia~~~

In Malaysia, everything is possible. And if you ask me, do I believe Malaysia government? Nooooooo....

There are a lot of rubbish being said by the politicians nowadays. I wonder, to become a politician, do you need some papers to back you up?

People were telling me (long long time ago), that you will need to study hard, and get a degree in order to get a good paying job...etc. Apparently, in Malaysia, I still think that the "theory" is not applicable at all, because what I see is a bunch of under-qualified (err... or should I say, not qualified?) politicians, governing us Malaysians, and still make tonnes of money, even more than what I am earning now. DAMN!

So, if you are not doing good in your studies, never mind, just join the politics and you'll be able to become a millionaire in no time.

Trust me, you can do that in Malaysia...

For more information, check it out at http://niamah.blogspot.com (Patrick Teoh's blog)

Dr Zambry: I’ll keep doing my job

Dr Zambry: I’ll keep doing my job

IPOH: Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir said he will only stop “working” when the courts decide he is not the legal mentri besar of Perak.

Speaking at the opening of the Perak Property Expo Friday morning, he said, “People ask me how I can keep on smiling or laughing.”

“Well, why not? There is no need to be too worried. I just continue to work,” he said.

The Court of Appeal is expected to decide Friday evening on Dr Zambry’s appeal against a High Court decision which had ruled that Pakatan Rakyat’s Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin was the state’s rightful mentri besar.

“My work was entrusted to me and so I must carry on,” he said.

I especially like this phrase that he said "... Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir said he will only stop “working” when the courts decide he is not the legal mentri besar of Perak...."

I thought the court already decided that he's NOT the legal one, but Nizar is? But he went on with the appeal!!

So, if the second time, court pronounced Nizar to be the legal MB again, and this guy will go to appeal again, and again, and again... it's never ending story! He will not stop working, because the cycle continues.

If he hasn't found another job yet, just say so lah... we're still able to give him some money to survive one. Even beggar is better than him. Sigh...

Melayu peluk babi

I am not sure if I am too pissed off with the current situation in Malaysia, or I am just being a fuck-head.

I read this news Melayu peluk babi

TAIPING: Cetek pengetahuan agama dan percayakan khurafat menyebabkan segelintir umat Islam sanggup membelai dan memeluk babi hutan semata-mata untuk mendapatkan tuah, termasuk memenangi hadiah utama judi nombor ekor, sekali gus meraih kekayaan segera.

Perbuatan jahil itu yang semakin menarik minat orang Melayu dari dalam dan luar negeri ini dilakukan di sebuah kuil di kaki bukit berhampiran sebuah pasar raya terkemuka dekat sini.

Mereka datang untuk mencuba nasib biarpun perbuatan itu dilaknat Tuhan.

Difahamkan, kuil berkenaan memang dikenali di kalangan masyarakat Cina dan India hingga ada yang datang dari jauh, termasuk Singapura untuk melihat tarikan utamanya iaitu kehadiran babi hutan 30 hingga 50 ekor pada satu-satu masa di kawasan khas setiap malam.





Malah, keunikan kuil berkenaan pernah disiarkan dalam satu program saluran televisyen berbayar beberapa bulan lalu hingga menyaksikan pertambahan pengunjungnya saban hari.

Majoriti pengunjung hanya mempunyai satu tujuan iaitu membawa slip nombor ekor, geran kenderaan, wang kertas yang digunakan untuk membeli nombor ekor untuk diusapkan ke badan babi hutan terbabit kerana percaya ia mampu membawa tuah, termasuk memenangi hadiah utama judi nombor ekor.

Yang menyedihkan, kepercayaan itu menular di kalangan orang Melayu di daerah ini sebelum merebak ke luar Perak.

Seorang penduduk, Abdul Karim Yusop, 51, ketika ditemui Harian Metro berkata kegiatan itu semakin menjadi-jadi sejak awal tahun ini.

“Saya tidak kisah ia dilakukan golongan bukan Islam, tetapi kesal apabila seorang rakan bukan Islam memaklumkan ada orang Melayu turut melakukannya.

“Rakan saya bertanya adakah perbuatan menyentuh babi itu dibenarkan dalam agama Islam dan saya memberitahunya ia perbuatan berdosa bagi umat Islam.

“Mendengar jawapan saya, dia terkejut dan memberitahu terdapat ramai orang Melayu menyentuh dan memeluk babi hutan di kuil berkenaan,” katanya.

Dia yang tidak berpuas hati kemudian ke kuil berkenaan kira-kira dua minggu lalu dan mengucap panjang apabila melihat beberapa orang Melayu terselit di kalangan pengunjung bukan Islam sedang mengusap babi hutan.

Abdul Karim yang tinggal di Gunung Semanggol, tidak jauh dari kuil berkenaan, berkata dia mengetahui individu terbabit orang Melayu apabila salam diberikannya disambut mereka.

“Apabila saya cuba bertanya lebih lanjut mengenai perbuatan itu, mereka mengelak sebelum beredar. Saya sedih kerana percaya ramai lagi orang Melayu, terutama dari luar negeri ini datang melakukan perbuatan terkutuk dan berdosa besar itu.

“Justeru, saya berharap Jabatan Agama Islam Perak menyiasat kerana risau jika dibiarkan berlarutan ia boleh menyebabkan akidah umat Islam tergugat,” katanya.

Dakwaan Abdul Karim menarik minat wartawan Harian Metro yang meninjau ke kuil berkenaan baru-baru ini selama sehari suntuk bersama jurugambar dengan menyamar sebagai pengunjung.

Terbukti, kehadiran orang Melayu di kuil berkenaan bukan perkara asing terutama di kalangan petugasnya.

Jumlah pengunjung mula bertambah mulai jam 7.30 malam apabila babi dari hutan berhampiran mula memenuhi kawasan khas yang disediakan.

Selain kereta, beberapa bas pelancong termasuk dari Singapura kelihatan hingga menyebabkan kesesakan lalu lintas di jalan utama memasuki ke kuil berkenaan, manakala pihak kuil turut menjual nasi lemak yang dibuat khas untuk diberikan kepada babi.

Kira-kira jam 9.30 malam, perhatian wartawan mula terarah kepada dua lelaki Melayu yang datang dan kelihatan di tangan mereka beberapa keping kertas dipercayai slip nombor ekor.

Tanpa membuang masa, dua lelaki terbabit menuju ke arah beberapa ekor babi berhampiran mereka sebelum mengusapnya dengan kertas di tangan mereka.

Sebaik berbuat demikian, mereka terus beredar dan apabila dihampiri wartawan yang bertanyakan mengenai perbuatan mereka, ini jawapan mereka:

“Apa salahnya mencuba nasib. Saya dengar ada orang kena nombor ekor hingga ratusan ribu ringgit apabila mengusap kertas nombor ekor atau wang digunakan untuk membeli nombor ekor kepada badan babi itu,” kata seorang daripada mereka sebelum beredar.

Kepercayaan karut itu dan kehadiran orang Islam di kuil berkenaan diakui beberapa pekerja di kuil terbabit sambil memberi contoh antara 100 pengunjung yang datang, 10 daripadanya orang Melayu.

“Semua itu (kepercayaan memegang babi membawa tuah) terpulang kepada diri masing-masing. Kami tidak pernah menghalang sesiapa masuk ke kuil ini. Tetapi setahu saya, perbuatan memegang babi salah bagi orang Islam.

“Namun mungkin mereka (orang Melayu) yang datang mempunyai alasan tersendiri. Asalkan pengunjung tidak melakukan perkara tidak elok, kami tidak boleh menghalang mereka memasukinya,” kata seorang petugas di kuil yang hanya mahu dikenali sebagai Ravi, 32.

First of all, what is wrong with pig?

"... manakala pihak kuil turut menjual nasi lemak yang dibuat khas untuk diberikan kepada babi." (translate: the temple sells nasi lemak that was also being prepared to feed the pigs). I find this sentence to be... errr... as if the food that was prepared was unholy and unhygenic. Hello!! It was not picken up from sewage!!

I think some Muslim "people" just need to stop making some fuss about all this "pig" thing. Okay, I've gotta admit, we shouldn't be superstitious. But hey, stop demonized pig as if when you hear the word "pig" you will die immediately and spend the rest of your life in hell or something like that.

"... “Apa salahnya mencuba nasib. Saya dengar ada orang kena nombor ekor hingga ratusan ribu ringgit apabila mengusap kertas nombor ekor atau wang digunakan untuk membeli nombor ekor kepada badan babi itu,” kata seorang daripada mereka sebelum beredar." (Translation: What is wrong to try my luck. I heard someone won the lottery when they just touch the paper or money on the pig body) --> So face it, MONEY is the main culprit. So I guess "they" should just burn the MONEY before it makes more muslims brethen to be out of mind.

What happen to this world? Arrgghhh...

Read this news on TheStar again.

Coroner: Detainee’s death a misadventure

KUALA LUMPUR: A coroner has ruled there was no criminal element in the death of labourer N. Prakash Moses, who died while in police custody.

Coroner Nazran Mohd Sham said the cause of Prakash’s death was due to head injury.

“Based on the evidence adduced from the witnesses, the court has found that the detainee fell by himself. The court classifies it as a misadventure,” he said.

Nazran said Prakash’s fall was at the Jalan Hang Tuah police detention centre, while the detainee died at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital (HKL) on Feb 18, 2003.

Nazran said this yesterday in his decision in the inquest to determine the cause of death of the father of eight.

Prakash, 40, was among 42 people detained under Ops Tapis around the Chow Kit area at 11pm on Feb 14, 2003 for suspected drug-related offences.

He was later taken to a detention centre.

According to the court papers, there were witnesses who saw him fall at the detention centre.

He was sent to HKL at 9am on Feb 15 for treatment. He was admitted to the intensive care unit on the same day and died three days later.

A port-mortem report by HKL forensic expert Dr Mohammad Shafie Othman cited the head injury caused by the fall as the cause of Prakash’s death.

A total of 17 witnesses testified at the inquest, which began on Feb 4, 2005.

DPP Syaiful Nazrin Mohd Rahim assisted the coroner in the proceedings.

Lawyer Amer Hamzah Arshad, who held a watching brief for Prakash’s family, said the family was considering filing for a revision over the ruling.

Yeah, of course, there's no foul-play. Who would believe it anyway?

The police is clean... yeah, I believed so too... If the police are bad guys, they won't be calling them "police", will they? So, I "believe" police are good man.

Malt drink = beer?

Sometimes I find it strange in Malaysia, and this thing will only happen in Malaysia.

Look at the news I read from TheStar.

The Star Online

The distributor of an Iranian halal non-alcoholic “beer” said that it had never used the term “beer” on their product.

Malaysian Iranian Corporation Sdn Bhd executive director Azizi Ahmad said his company realised that Muslims might be concerned about the term “beer” on the Iranian-made drink called Istak.

“Istak is actually a malt drink, which had received the halal certification from the Iranian government 10 years ago,” he told Utusan Malaysia.

He added that Iran was known to impose strict halal regulations on commercial products.

The paper had published concerns from several Islamic NGOs who disagreed with the usage of the term “beer” on the drink.

Azizi said his company had never issued brochures saying that the Istak drink was a “halal beer,” adding that he would contact the NGOs to clarify the matter.

This is just how you interpret it? You can call it whatever that you want, but then a beer is a beer.

There are many ways you can call a thing.

If you have "stolen" something, if you don't call that "stealing" (but to call it "borrowing" from that someone), will you be spare from punishment?

Taking someone thing without the person's permission is called stealing. But if you insist in calling that "borrowing", you know, borrow first, but ask for permission later. Then, will it be considered that you hadn't done something wrong?

You know, "pork" is not "pig", it's just some kind of meat. It's perfectly fine for everyone to eat because it's just a type of "meat", and it's not "pork". So practically, that will eventually make it a "halal" food, am I right? (just make sure it follows the procedure during the killing, and it'll be considered as halal)

If that's the case, why not rename the word "pork" to something else, then we can all enjoy a delicious pork in Malaysia...

Fucking stupid!

Quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org --> Meaning of Malt Beverages

Malt beverage is an American term for both alcoholic and non-alcoholic fermented beverages, in which the primary ingredient is barley, which has been allowed to sprout ("malt") slightly before it is processed. By far, the most predominant malt beverage is beer, of which there are two main styles: ale and lager. A non-alcoholic beverage brewed in this fashion is technically identical to "non-alcoholic beer." Such a beverage may be prepared by either removing alcohol from the finished product or by using a slightly altered brewing process which yields very little alcohol (technically less than 0.5% by weight).

The term "malt beverage" is often used by trade associations of groups of beer wholesalers (e.g. Tennessee Malt Beverage Association) to avoid any negative connotations associated with beer. Additionally, the term is applied to many other flavored beverages prepared from malted grains to which natural or artificial flavors have been added to make them taste similar to wines, fruits, colas, ciders, or other beverages. This subcategory has been called "malternative," as in Smirnoff Ice (US & French version), or "maltini," as in 3SUM, which also has energy components like caffeine. Marketing of such products in the United States has increased rapidly in recent years.

In most jurisdictions, these products are regulated in a way identical to beer, which allows a retailer with a beer license to sell a seemingly wider product line. This also generally avoids the steeper taxes and stricter regulations associated with distilled spirits.

If it's not a beer, no alcohol contain, why would someone so afraid to drink it?

And so why Muslims in Malaysia drinks RootBeer? Or can they drink it?

Can they be less senstive on words but focus on real issue?

Halal?

It's been quite some time since I updated this blog.

Today, I reached office early morning. And since I've got nothing to do yet, so I just read on some online news and I found this.

The Star --> Najib: Tab into halal market

Well, to me, halal or not, I don't really care... but when I continued reading, I was surprised to read this..

"... These products are among hundreds from various parts of the world, including non-Muslim nations. The pill for erectile dysfunction is from South Korea while the halal beer is from Iran and the quit-smoking aid is from India..."

I don't know anything about "halal", but "halal beer"? In Malaysia? Well, why not just make a law that allow Muslims to drink, instead of calling it a "halal beer". What's next? "halal chivas"? "halal pork"?

Gosh... I think only Malaysia is trying to play god.

Recession

Yesterday, I was being called into my boss room, and a bad news had broken out.

My company will soon run the 4-days-work per week.

In other words, PAY-CUT lor!

Rear seat belt?

I don't know about this, I smell something fishy on this "rear seat belt" law. I am in the automotive industry, and I know that Proton & Perodua are going to launch their MPV vehicle next year.

The question is, is this "law" being introduced to "force" people to buy a MPV?

(Proton is going to launch their MPV on March 2009, Perodua is set to be somewhere around August 2009).

I don't focus too much on Perodua, afterall, they're way better than Proton. But this move to introduce rear seat belt (I agree to have rear seat belt, but, why now? Why not before?)

Proton is set to launch their MPV on March 2009, and this year the gomen introduced the law to insist on wearing seat belt at rear seats?

I can just say !@#$%%^$#$#@!

New ATM

I don't know if the current ATM that we're using now was derived from this version. But it was freaking hilarious!

Dildo on bikes?

Wah lao, I really like the Japanese, they can really think of something which is very special and creative!

I wonder if there's any such "creation" for guys?

Hmmm, riding while masturbating... cool... I love that idea.

Dildo secrets..

This morning, when I woke up early, and I started to surf the net, and I've found this accidentally.

Hear it.

Like some of the comments I'd read --> I love the radio, but I hate her bf. LOL...



What do you think?

Najib: No more fuel rebates if you don't appreciate them

See this news on TheStar just now --> Najib: No more fuel rebates if you don't appreciate them

What can I say to this arrogantly party? FUCK you lah... If I am not educated, then I might got fooled by you, but... no, I won't be fooled by you no more...

Petrol Decrease by 15sens

As I just got the news from Malaysiakini, that the petrol will be decreased by 15 sens. There isn't much impact to me, as I know once the price has gone up, it will never come down. You see, when there is a decreased of 15 sens on petrol, do you think the roti-canai, or wantan mee, will be at lower price? I DON'T THINK SO...

But this is not the point that I wanted to bring out.

It's about our flip-flop Pee Am, errr... the so-called "Pee Am" lar. I am seriously getting more and more worried about this decisions, his talkings... etc.

If my memory served me well, I remembered him saying that "there will definitely no price change on petrol, not before Merdeka celebration. It will definitely be on 1st September 2008..."

Okay, it's clear now, our Pee Am sucks. He is using this tactic so that they can win the election. Too bad that I am not staying in Permatang, otherwise, I would have taken the 15sens discount in petrol, and yet I won't vote for them... haha...

Went through this blog Samyeap.com

I have the same thinking as what he had on his blog.

Can someone please tell me, is it only happen in Malaysia, or it happens in every other country also?

Touch N Go...

PETALING JAYA: About 48,000 Touch ’n Go cards will be expiring this year, with about 4,000 customers replacing their expired cards every month since January.

The cards, purchased in 1997 (when the service was officially launched), had reached their 10-year lifespan, said Touch ’n Go Customer Service Department head Azmi Jafar.

He said to renew the card, customers would need to purchase a new card at a cost of RM10, which would be taken from the RM15 deposit of the expired card.

Asked why customers were charged for the card renewal, when they were not initially informed of the card expiring, he replied:

“The new card will be able to last for another 10 years, which works out to RM1 a year only.

“The balance of RM5 from the deposit will be credited into the new card as a reload value,” he said, adding that the credit balance of the expired card would be transferred to the new card as well.

Azmi said the cards have a 10-year expiry period as “all electronic products are subject to wear and tear.”

“Touch ’n Go is no exception. The electronic chip in the card, which carries the functions such as

memory storage, radio transmitter and receiver, has a 10-year life-span.

“The chip will lose its efficiency once it reaches the end of its lifespan,” he told The Star.

Card users can only renew their cards at Touch ’n Go offices in Faber Towers, KL Sentral (both in Kuala Lumpur), Penang Bridge Sdn Bhd, PLUS, Elite Highway and Second Link.

“Right now, customers can check when their card expires at our website. We are negotiating with vendors to extend our service of renewing their cards online.

“That system should be out sometime next year,” he said.

He said that should customers decide not to purchase a new Touch ’n Go card, they can return the expired card, and the deposit and balance would be refunded via cheque within 30 working days.

For more information, go to http://www.touchngo.com.my.

Sometimes, I don't know why I got angry easily, or pissed off by reading some "Malaysia" news. Take this news for example, it should be okay, nothing seem to be awkward, but there is one line that's being reported that really make me fucking pissed off.

... "Asked why the customer were charged for the card renewal, when they were not initially informed of the card expiring, he replied :"The new card will be able to last for another 10 years, which works out to be RM1 a year only"...

Who is this fucking Azmi Jafar? Does he understand the question at all? Someone was asking, why we were charged for renewal of card, and he answered "oh.. it's only RM1 per year.."

And mind you, even when it's RM10 per year, I don't mind just as long as I've been informed about this earlier.

Don't they know that the lifespan for the card is about 10 years before they start the whole system? Or are they expecting that the system will not last above 10 years, that's why they don't inform their customers about this renewal thing?

I wonder, when will people learn how to be responsible on what they've done wrong? If you've made a mistake, you absorb the cost this time, but inform the customer that they will be charged for the next renewal session.

Damn, I really wish I can just pass all the "mistaken" cost to my customers... niamah...

Kick in the balls?

Hmm... what is your hobby? Some people like to play badminton, some people like to play mahjong, but I've never knew that some people like their balls to be kicked.

Wah lao.. like this also can ar?

Do you dare to participate in this kind of hobby?

A dog fucking a duck? What the...?

Okay, I've seen man fucking animals (or girls being fucked by dogs)... and I thought animal only fuck their own kind, but I never thought I will see something like this.

Damn, the world is getting crazier...

Accident in Cheras

Saturday August 2, 2008

Two killed in highway horror

Horrific crash in Cheras

By STEVEN DANIEL
stevend@thestar.com.my

KUALA LUMPUR: Two people were killed after a 10-tonne lorry rammed into seven vehicles on the Cheras-Kajang Highway yesterday.

One of the victims of the horrific crash, Kpl Mohd Nuh Ali, 48, was a bomb squad specialist.

The lorry driver, who also died in the 9.30am crash near Taman Connaught, Cheras, here yesterday, was identified as Kang Ban Hin, 50.

Kuala Lumpur deputy traffic police chief DSP Ng Fook Long said six people were also injured in the crash.

“They have all been admitted to the Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Cheras and are in serious condition,” he added.

It is learnt that five of the injured were in critical condition.

DSP Ng said that the lorry, carrying boulders, was turning into the Kajang-Cheras Highway from the Middle Ring Road 2, when Kang was believed to have lost control of the vehicle before smashing into a motorcycle, three cars, a van and an MPV.

Mohd Nuh was riding his motorcycle to work with the General Operation Force unit in Cheras when the lorry hit him before jumping the divider and crashing into oncoming vehicles on the highway.

The father of three, who had spent many years in the force putting his life at risk defusing bombs mainly during training exercises, died on the spot.

Eyewitnesses described the scene of the accident as “horrific.”

“I saw the lorry coming down quite fast without the signal light on as I overtook it on my motorcycle. Seconds later, I heard a loud crash.

“To my horror, as I turned around to look, I saw the lorry smashing into several vehicles,” said Naresh Kumar, 28, an engineer.

He said he immediately called the police. Others at the scene claimed at least three other vehicles were damaged.

Kamarul Aizan, 33, whose Perodua Kancil was among the vehicles damaged in the accident, said he was just “seconds away from death”.

“I was heading towards Bandar Tasik Selatan when suddenly the lorry came out of nowhere in front of me and ploughed into a Kelisa. I might have been about three seconds behind the car.

“My car suffered some damage but thankfully I escaped unharmed,” he said.

The accident caused a massive traffic jam that lasted almost three hours as police and Fire Department officials cleared debris from the road and motorists slowed down to look at the accident.

The bodies of Mohd Nuh and Kang were taken to Hospital Kuala Lumpur for autopsy.

Sometimes when I read some online news, so forth and so on, it will make me wonder of the way they report the whole incident. Like those that I highlighted in RED color, what has the background of one victim got to do with the accident?

Somehow it makes me wonder that we over-glorified certain people. To me, everyone is at the same level, if the reporter is to write something about the background of one victim, he/she might as well write it for all the victims, not just one, but all...

Or perhaps this is Malaysia? We just gotta add in irrelevant things/issues to something. Probably just like the feel of "look good at the outside, don't really care about the inside"...

Fucking Malaysia......

Government wasting our MONEY!!

It was quite a while since this Merc car that will use by Terengganu had some hoo-haa about whether they should scrap the Perdana. At first, I am already disappointed with their actions, I find that there are a lot of clowns in Malaysia's politics (or should I say, they are all fuckers? They don't have the qualifications to do the job), but after reading this news in TheStar, I think I better think of migrating (even to Thailand) than to stay in Malaysia for the rest of my life.

Monday July 28, 2008

Seizure of cars forces exco men to use Mercs

KUALA LUMPUR: Eight of the 16 Proton Perdanas for Terengganu’s executive councillors have been seized by the Anti-Corruption Agency.

This has left them with no choice but to use the Mercedes E200 Kompressors for their official duties.

This was the explanation given by Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said over the continued use of the Mercedes by exco members despite the Prime Minister’s instruction for them to stop.

Last Friday, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the Terengganu Government could keep the 14 Mercedes but they could only be used for guests of the state.

Ahmad said the exco members would continue to use the Mercedes pending completion of ACA’s investigations into the high maintenance cost of the state’s fleet of Proton Perdana V6 Executives.

“The ACA has taken the Proton Perdana cars and it would take some time so we are going to use the Mercedes,” he told a press conference after dinner with Umno leaders here on Saturday night.

He added that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had given the state the permission to use the Mercedes “once in a while”.

“This is only temporary, we will decide later,” he added.