Oh no….1% to be implemented only in Jan 2009…but now is already August 2009…few months more it would be 2010…

A lot of private U graduates thought of working in Singapore to speed up the loan refund 2.4 times faster because of the hugh loan burden on students and also due to cheap skilled worker wages in Malaysia. I am one of them…and no one guarantees whether we’ll be rooted in Spore.

Btw, I just simply skimmed through the original article without reading word by word, and his English does not bother me. I believe that it’s his intention to express it in the native Malaysian English way. If one works in a MNC, one has to deal with people from different variations of English “dialects” around the globe and be smart and quick to catch what is being expressed, no one would expect a perfect English speaker in the real world. Anyway, his profession is not a opinion article writer, I am sure he will express pretty well when it comes to Engineering Technical writing.

1%…1%…1%….

What has happened to the case of MARA running out of money as one student complained of recently in this blog? Has she got her money? Are new study loans being given out?

As TDMM asked “Where has all of Petronas’ dividends to the government gone to?” Why is the government “pokai”?

“Don’t you think he got nothing else better to do?”

should be read as

“Do you think that he got nothing else better to do?”

What is the fuss? Having benefited from the loan of RM 66,000 and now you bitch about interest rate?

If you find that your complaint is justifiable, try the banks and see how you’ll get snubbed.

Also, make sure you don’t own a credit card, you will faint knowing how they charge millions of Malaysian daily. Compare 17% to 1~2% p.a. is nothing.

I still can’t understand why you need to complain and to have Uncle Kit take up your case.

Do you care to explain why you deserve Uncle Kit’s attention. Don’t you think he got nothing else better to do?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6652878.ece

I believe Tee’s message got through to yer thick skulls right? Isn’t that what’s important? Getting the message through?

Just stop being a troll mmkay? Grammar nazis on the net is just a bunch of OCD trolls.

“Practice makes perfect,” so the idiom goes. Forget about the”intellectuals” who do not see the actual problem, but how it is phrased. I understand that English is not of your problem, but of the 20 over teachers who must have thought from standard one. As for the PTPTN loan, I hope “Uncle Kit” is wise enough to see the problem and not the English and takes some steps to highlight it. I doubt to see any quick solution to the problem. In the meantime, keep practicing in writing in the “English” you know as it is one of the ways to improve on it. Good Luck.

If there are no answers forthcoming right now, and no promise of a solution, I’d recommend to Tee that he [or she - see TheNutGraph? It's working!] keeps very comprehensive records of his finances over the whole time he [or ...] is repaying this loan (not just details of the loan repayments, but also records of any savings you have, as you’re losing interest on your own deposits, and any loans or missed credit card repayments you incur because of the additional burden of the high interest rate).

One day LGE will be Prime Minister, and then all Malaysians can sue his transparent and accountable government to bankruptcy for the financial problems BN causes the nation now.

Yes, his command of the language is not as good as all of you up there, but SS DID get the message through.

So let’s move on. PTPTN’s still charging 3%, though they did say they will “back-date” all those interest charges “as soon as they are ready to implement 1%”. As usual they did not specify when they will “be ready for 1%”.

For your info SS, I have a friend who took the loan too. He took RM19,500.00 for a 3-year degree course in a public university. He’s paying back about RM200.00 per month, & he’s having a really hard time “fighting the interest charges”.

Plus, the economy is slowing down, & he had to take a major pay cut to stay employed. With his salary, he had to eat, pay bills, support his parents and so on. If he had to pay installments for a car/house he’d be dead as i type this comment.
I think he represents most of our young people today.

The interest is about RM48.00 per month, for a RM19k loan.
I can imagine how massive SS’ interest charges would be.

Well my opinion is PTPTN is too lazy to make simple changes. That’s why it took so long.

Thanks SS for bringing this up. I hope your message will somehow reach the govt, and the govt will somehow choose to listen.

If some of the ‘primary six students’ in the 70’s and 80’s 70s and 80s (no need for apostrophes) can were able to (because you’re writing about the past) write a better letter, perhaps they should have used their superior skills to do something about Malaysia’s politics before it got into such a sorry state.

I see even Godfather put his comment through Google Translate on the [Bahasa Ingerris]->[Queen's English] setting. When did one start using ‘one’, wan?