Another Malaysia Boleh - Gadget to measure 20 litres of petrol

Just heard over the news that foreign vehicles cannot leave Malaysian soil with more than 20 litres of petrol in their fuel tank.

I just wonder how this can be done, and why this requirement of 20 litres.

Maybe, just maybe our government has acquired a technology, biotechnology, that can give exact measurements of petrol remaining in a fuel tank. I do not know of any make or models of cars that have a fuel gauge that gives precise measurements of fuel in the tank.

Or, maybe our custom officers need an indirect bonus.

Or maybe our government just do not want tourists and visitors from neighbouring countries, ie Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Brunei.

Let's see if our Tourism Minister has some comments on this. After all, maybe another ministry is trying to make back the money that our Tourism Minister has given to the various foreign ambassadors.
 
Just heard that for Singaporeans, since they cannot leave Singapore with less than 3/4 full tanks, the custom officers will only make sure that they do not fill more than 20 litres at the gas stations. How silly.

1Malaysia Sunday Fair

This fair is organised by our ministry of tourism and is held at the tourism centre.

These photographs were taken at 11am. See how crowded this is!

If you have not visited, don't bother. The usual stalls selling some usual handicrafts, in a very noisy environment. Music and DJ blaring announcements on the happenings at the fair.

Questions that pop up with regards to this fair:

- how much did our government spend having those tents (photo's will be updated later, when I get to my desktop) put up every Saturday, and taken down every Sunday afternoon, for about two months. I hope our parliamentarians or The Sun will start asking questions as to the rationale of having such events

Saturday evening,tents up. Sunday evening, tents down. Repeat every week until January 2010. Wonder if Tony Pua can make some enquiries on the expenditures.

- how much publicity is there for the tourists? when I spoke to some stall owners, they said that most of the visitors (like me), are malaysians. I guess this 1Malaysia means what it means, even touristic events meant for Malaysians

- are there studies made as to what tourists look for when they are at a fair? To enjoy the noise, to shop, to know more about Malaysia? Would they stay when the music/noise level is so high?

- group exercise, accompanied by loud music. Really the place and time for such activities? should that not be conducted at the more spacious Merdeka square?

- product mix of stalls (quite a few empty ones too) are not that interesting. food, food, food, and some handicrafts. The two artists that were there last week was not around. Who decides what to have, I wonder.

- what does this do for our tourism?

I could see lots of tourism staff, lots of plastic bags with 1Malaysia logo, literature, brochure, and overtime pay, i guess... welcome to Malaysia.

Yes, more orange T's than visitors.

Oh! I did see 2 middle easterners and 5 caucasians. When I asked one of the caucasian, he said that they happen to be walking towards KLCC and decided to do a quick detour and see if they can find anything interesting - unfortunately for them, and for Malaysia, he did not find anything interesting.