I have a bone to pick with the government, local and federal, for the way it has run the country down.

The Ipoh city council cannot cut grass to save their lives even though Ipoh folks are paying the highest assessment rates in Malaysia. And they can't collect rubbish either.

The price of petrol has gone up, insurance premiums are going up, water rates are threatening to go up, toll rates are forever increasing... and the government goons use our taxpayers' pensions to invest in business ventures that give negative returns.

Our oh-so wonderful capital city that boasts the tallest buildings in the world (well, not for long anyway!) floods just about most of the time whenever a giant rain cloud decides to descend over it.

Did I leave anything out? Oh yes, how about a government that is forever threatening racial riots whenever it thinks it is going to lose the elections?

And I certainly cannot think of any other country in the world other than good old Malaysia of today where its leader exhibits such fine skills in repelling foreign direct investments and moving the stock market downwards.