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17 Things will be Cheaper without GST on June 2018

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GST system is a burden ? It depends how many times you had buy these things as listed below. The truth about GST is very much unveiled itself after living with GST system nearly 3 years from year 2015 .



The higher the single product is, the higher is the GST charge and is possible higher than SST system in an end-consumer perspective. It may have reduce/lower the national local consumption rate due to bad perception.

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All of these are personal opinions. The listed products may not be as accurate as the time article were written due to the situation may be impacted by changes in the tax system. This article may displayed for your entertainment purpose only. If you feel offended please do not view it and leave.





Air ticket
I like flying with Airasia



1. Plane Ticket



I am not really smart everytime I take Airasia, my receipt shows a GST charge RM11.83. Is this a chinese owned company ?





GSC Ticket
I like GSC



2. GSC Ticket



I am not really good in math. Everytime I watch a movie in cinema. There was a charge as little as RM0.69 for adult and RM0.37 for kids.




McDonalds Rio Burger
I like McDonalds



3. McDonalds



I always like to eat McDonalds. But, Pop culture warns us not too much because too much links to our level of intelliegent ??  GST is RM1.22




Starbucks
I like Starbucks



4. Starbucks


Is the chinese-owned company sentiment over ? I am not over. From wikipedia it is not a secret company behind Starbucks Malaysia handled by a Chinese in Malaysia and they pay tax too. Are rich people the only group purchase Starbucks ?  I leave it to you decides. Before you ever leave this page, remember Wakanda people actually like Starbucks



This Starbucks I bought during half-price promotion. It charge me RM0.53 for GST




Corn product Malaysia
I like Corn


5. Canned Food



I remember somewhere actually stated canned corn is one of the product charged with 6% GST. Yes, it might be a chinese company. Everyone starts to freak out when they found out the owner is Chinese.



Kimball Thai Chili
I like Spicy sauce



6. Processed Chili Sauce



I bet processed Chili actually need to be charged with 6% GST. It is processed and likely to be included in GST list.



Huawei G8
I like Huawei. But, each year new phone come out my love gradually fade



7. Huawei Smartphone



In this few years, there were influx of China made technology products in Malaysia especially smartphone brands from Huawei and Oppo. Your newly owned smartphone is proudly brought to you GST charge totalled RM84.xx. 




Asus
I like Asus



8. Asus Laptop



First of all, Asus is made from Taiwan. Although most of them are mandarin speaking at there.(Namewee used to study there) but, Asus is a product by import. I am not rich enough to buy a gaming laptop and this laptop i bought could not actually play PUBG. it may run Dota 2 or Crysis 2. The point is, I got charged MYR 93.00. 



Good example from Huawei smartphone and Asus laptop. As long as the price point is higher, your 6%GST charge is gonna be higher.




SESB receipt with GST 6%
SESB



9. Power Plant


Most people do not really write anything about power plant because they are afraid SESB going to unplug electricity at our home. I do not know about West Malaysia, i guess they have the same type of paper receipt right ? There were not much differences between us. West Malaysia may use red-colored banner with TNB logo.



Have you seen your home electricity bill lately because your whole life revolves around it. The first 300kwh is not qualify for GST collection. the next kwh is going to be included into GST list. Anyone opens Air-condition at night are guaranteed over 300kwh. My electricity bill GST is RM6.00




watson cosmetic
I like cosmetic




10. Watson



Do you know that watson headquarter is based at Hong Kong. We love shopping at watson because there are so many choices on the shelves. A big company with heavy revenue always in the GST list. I get taxed RM2.39 each time I bought something at Watson







11. Postpaid Plan



A bit sceptical whether Maxis and Celcom Postpaid have any 6% GST. The newly introduced Digi Postpaid 100 infinite seem to have 6% GST. Rumor you actually can claim it back.






12. Tofu



There was a quotation actually stated processed tofu are able to be taxed in 6% GST.



Cassava flour
Delicious flour



13.Ubi Flour



Corn and Cassava flour are not wheat or rice flour. It could be in GST list.



Domino Pizza
I like Pizza !



14. Domino Pizza



Pizza is definitely needed to be collected in GST because it too delicious and people easily get too much of it. Refrain from eating, if it too delicious, the secret to longevity



Receipt 4GB RAM from Lazada
I love Lazada



15. Internet Shopping



Do not buy if you cannot afford just stick to 4GB system RAM laptop. When I do buy it, it said I got taxed in shipping cost as well as the product. Shipping cost plus GST is quite expensive ?


GST RM5.30 for my shipping and my 4GB RAM stick GST is RM9.40. I thought buying online was cheaper but, RM14.70 is just GST. I cant imagine as if thousands of peoples purchase stuff online.






16. Lot 10 eateries



Charcoal he fen/ho fun/kuey teow stall is really pack with office employees during peak hour.



I like to fly



17. Air Plane Ticket



It pretty much acceptable practice. Walking around the airport, using the airport facilities and the fund can be used for future development a better airport in Malaysia. Above, I am guessing the RM 11.00 is airport tax with 6% GST, RM 0.66. Besides, there was a base fare price RM 141.00 and the GST is RM8.46.






Either GST or SST
Nor RM10.60 or RM10.00
Nor Today or June 1,2018
40billion or 20billion
Guess what ?

Tomorrow still need to wake up and go to work!! Ain't nobody got time for that. Am I the only one did not move on in this GST subject ?

Fortnite Save the World is just RM80

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10 Fun Facts about Fortnite Save the World PVE



Korean playing fortnite
Korean Oppa are fond of Fortnite

Russian playing fortnite
The new generation of Russian are learning English 



china playing fortnite



1. Asia server



#1 fun fact is young russian are learning English language was told by one russian fortnite player in game. In conversation, they seem to be having a critical thinking about their government.

#2 fun fact Korean oppa like to play Fortnite and some of them actually speak English

Besides Korean and Russian, they are some Chinese player and not so much Philippine players.


2 Unreal Engine



#3 fun fact Fortnite is using Unreal Engine. To run Fortnite, minimum requirement is 4GB RAM and recommended requirement to have system ram 8GB.




St.Patrick Event



3. Limited-Time Theme Event



#4 fun fact, there were halloween, christmas and even chinese new year limited-time theme event. Above picture character dressed in a rabbit costume was promoting St.Patrick day on April.







4. Traps, Guns and Melee weapons



#5 fun facts these weapons should just exist in game. There are crossbow, machine gun, pistol, shotgun, rifle, axe, sword. The enemy are zero chance against us.


Perhaps in any zombie game franchise, fortnite has large amounts of guns to play with. Of course, Fortnite use the word "Husk" instead of zombie.






5. Tower Defense Element


#6 fun fact, there are tons of tower defense games out there, Fortnite is 3D tower defense game with guns traps and buildings.


#7 fun fact, four players up against hundreds of husks with the help of guns and traps. player would lose the game if husks successfully destroyed mission objective. It could be a van, a box or a shelter.







6. Mission objectives


#8 fun fact, endless fight with husks is not enjoyable ? you may opt mission particularly save the survivors or building radars.


#9 fun fact, mission can be 20 minutes duration or no time limit. No time limit allows player collect ammo, harvest ingredients for weapon or just purely building a mammoth traps for solo play.







7. Zombies  Husks


#10 fun fact, in fortnite narrative, husks are from a fictional storm. there are fat husk, a laser-shooting husk, a over steroid husk and most of them were purple.


I do not know about killing floor 2, Fortnite is as awesome as Left 4 dead 2.













Yili Greek Yogurt is selling at RM7 in Malaysia

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Highly influential China's variety programme "Running Man"  endorsed Yili Group's Greek Yogurt


Yili greek yogurt




Fans of the show have tried to purchase or to extend, imports the drink from China in order to displays their support and love on the variety show and celebrities. Although generally speaking most of Malaysian are not fond of yogurt drinks, due to celebrity endorsement from Li Chen and Angelababy, the market may endures large demand on Yili's greek yogurt beverage in a short time.



During the show, celebrity would satisfy thirst with Ambrosial AnMuXi Greek Yogurt Drink indirectly promoting the yogurt drink. Due to the large demand, the drink can be bought in some local stores in Malaysia for instance, Familymart. The price is at between RM7 - RM20.



The imported drink may have a different type of expiry date to warns the consumer. This yogurt drink most likely shows the manufacture date and encourages consumer drinks it within the duration of 6 months. Besides, do not be discouraged when you found out the beverage date is expired for a month, you may have wrongly noticed it was actually manufacture date for an imported products.



Yogurt or directly translated from Mandarin as "sour milk" is no stranger to us as we have known Yakult from Japan. Both products have a similarity in taste. However, a humble opinion, Yili's greek yogurt is much more sticky andcreamy.

  



MAS is RM20+ cheaper than Airasia domestic flight

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Sabah flight with Malaysia Airline is much more cheaper than Airasia. 




Airasia can never boast tagline "Now everyone can fly" the same way for local community in Sabah. MAS may have implemented price reform that could easily put Airasia in a disadvantage position. The changes in ticket price is noticeable as local community in Sabah are never fond of taking land transportation for instance, Kota Kinabalu to Sandakan or Kota Kinabalu to Tawau. They relied heavily on air transportation due to its travel speed and cost efficient.



Sabah may not be as congested as in the west Malaysia, However, the road to various cities in Sabah were not ideal. As more people noticing Sabah potential, the number of population has grew rapidly and will be in upward trend in the near future. No one wanted to spend 9 hours in a bus as alternatively air transport from Tawau to Kota Kinabalu is merely less than 1 hour.



The obvious popularity swing from Airasia to Malaysia Airline in Sabah has lead to one of the local member of parliament at Kinabatangan voicing dissatisfaction felt by his people in governed area. In fact, the people started to realized it is a good sign that fierce competition among air transport companies is good for the economy.


2nd Lunar new Year and Saturday 17 / February / 2018. Ticket price from Tawau to Kota Kinabalu. ticket price RM174 not inclusive of tax and processing fee



It is safe to say most of local community Sabah chose Airasia as their preferred airline company flying nationwide. The price is economical friendly as opposed to Malaysia Airline. Just speaking from experience, Airasia ticket used to be as cheap as lower than RM100 for single trip from Kota Kinabalu to Tawau or Sandakan which as cheap as an express bus that took 5 hours and more to reach. Whereas, Malaysia Airline ticket could cost up to RM180 above with added baggage.



It is even cheaper as if purchase it at early date, Airasia ticket could go as low as RM70 or even below RM50 in a promotional rate.




The price is RM 161.12 for a single trip from Tawau to Kota kinabalu. 


One may argue that consumer is purchasng a flight ticket a day before the flight date. Airasia may get you a cheaper price at early date, there was no guarantee that you will have average ticket price at a really late flight date. 



To be frank, the lowest airasia ticket we could find comparison is RM174.00 and that is not the final price no inclusive tax and processing fee. To blindly guess the price could be up to RM190.00++ for airasia ticket puchasing at a very late date and in a festive season.



Malaysia Airlines ticket price at RM161.12 is inclusive of tax, luggage, preferential seat allocation and may have a free meal for flight duration over 60 minutes. 



In a suggestion for a competitive airline companies in Malaysia, the Airasia is a role model and subsequently leads Malaysia Airline lost its status as monopoly in respective business and push for a price reform. Eventually not in exaggerate way to say "Now Everyone can fly".


Buy Things with Lazada Mobile in Malaysia

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There were so many shopping malls, some love shopping remotely





Lazada Package



China has Alibaba, Malaysia has Lazada for online shopping experience. The growing of e-commerce may have boosted national courier Pos Laju to a new height. Imagine of thousands of large and small parcels needed to be delivered to homes were not an easy task to be fulfulled. Lazada may considered the first and highly advertised successful e-commerce company in Malaysia.



The success of Lazada brought huge investment from Alibaba. When Lazada first opened its e-commerce store, there were very little china made products and there were no big tab sign written "taobao". Clicking into the tab would result to a new page full of taobao owned products. Taobao vaguely means in mandarin "roll for treasure".



E-commerce may have high influence on future cashless society. If there were no major failures in comsumer-to-machine transactions or historical flawed in bank's cards, the future generation will no longer accepting cash as a norm to purchase anything. Although younger generation prefer goes cashless, they needed to know machine sometimes overloaded, overheated or has to undergo long maintenance time just like the bank's ATM.




JBL T450 headphone
Headphone gadgets are always has low lifespan. 


I have used many headphones throughout my life. Neither were Samsung, Huawei and Remax lasted a lifetime. Not to mention countless of counterfeit headphone products. In 2018, before celebration of Lunar new year, I am really fond to get JBL headphones. However, the original imported JBL headphones were really expensive. It could easily cost anyone RM100 and above.



The good thing about Lazada is that, every consumer could leave bad or good feedbacks. Unlike traditional way of engaging a sales assistant for a review. Of course, some sales assistant would just simply give everything they are selling a good reviews. JBL products in Lazada has more than 100 reviews and most of them are positive.



Lazada Mobile
Lazada mobile



I have known Lazada mobile for a really long time but never get to use it. The simple app has almost all the features as comparison to visiting Lazada on a PC.



Lazada cash on delivery
Lazada has cash on delivery, easy return



You will be suprised how fast they deliver the products to your home. The fastest I have truly experienced was 3 days. To be honest, most people pay in advance rather than using "Cash on Delivery" option. This feature allows buyer pay on the meeting spot. Lazada could fulfill any orders nationwide as long as there were pos laju nearby or you could opt getting your products at the nearby courier company such as Gdex.





payment method in Lazada mobile
If you have debit or credit cards, you may just insert card's number




Choose your bank wisely and remember you must have online banking for FPX service. FPX has some really good preventative measures for example, phone notification, rhb bank website verification and phone code verification.



If you are wondering does Lazada accepting order from Sabah, the answer is yes. Some people are curious as online shopping  is for the city folks who does not want to drive all the way to shopping mall and cause traffic congestion or pay a hefty parking fee. If you are unsure or you are living in rural areas you may just write your phone number and nearest courier company as if the products has arrived they may give you a phone call.



Happy shopping and hope you will find this helpful to your problem.