Is Starbucks EVIL?

Kenapa pilih untuk duduk sejam di Starbucks kalau $10 tu boleh digunakan untuk beli 1 packet Nescafe 3-in-1 yang cukup untuk cover at least 10 hari punye breakfast? It’s a comical question. Mestila.. Starbucks pakai high quality coffee bean. Pastu tempat cozy. High standard..

But why Starbucks charge relatively high price for a coffee that only cost 1/5 of its selling price? Percayalah.. cost of raw coffee bean x mahal mane pon. Jika anda penggemar kopi-kopi begini dan acapkali meluangkan masa lepak Starbucks and layan secawan overprice coffee; u may have come to a conclusion that somebody is making big big money out of all this. WHO?

Obviously kita akan terpikir tokei Starbucks la.. Or the franchise owner. Bukan semudah itu.. Starbucks will fight for PRIME LOCATION. Location lebih utama. Staff, coffee quality, kemudian.. Tapi siapa control the location? Tuan tanah/landlord. Starbucks do have competitors. Coffee Bean, Gloria Jeans, many more. Bila 3-4 potential tenants berebut 1 strategic location, the landlord will playing them against each other, dictate the terms. The tenancy rate will become variable. So who is going to make most of the money? The one who willing to sell $14 per cup of coffee and have YOU who willing to pay money for them. Of course, the landlords are even richer!! Coffee owner will be moderately rich and tell me siapa yang lepas dating kat Starbucks balik umah naik bas?!!!

So, much of the $10 profit per person they have expected to earn should go on the rent bill. Bukan semua kedai kopi mewah ni make a lot of money. They sometimes only breakeven je..

Kes yang sama 1 – kenapa pop corn kat panggung mahal x ingat punye – padahal there was no pop corn shortage pon.. Psr mlm pnye pop corn colourful lagi. Murah plak.

Kes yang sama 2 – Kenapa rumah kat bangi mahal dari umah kat parit jawa muar. Again, location..

Kos sewa tend to increase, is a natural outcome of the power of scarcity. Kadang2 scarcity is a situation that was created by the coffee owner(Starbucks). They willing to pay more on rent and has an agreement with landlord that direct competitors(Coffee Bean) will not be allowed right next door.

Peniaga x berlesen kat tepi jalan sekali kene rush ngn majlis perbandaran cabut trusss… walaupon kita blm bayar duit sirap ais kat dia. Sewa kn free.. lesen pon xde. Xrugi pape.. brp la sangat modal buat air tu…

Jangan blame Starbucks 100% sebab kopi dia mahal. Blame the CAPITALIST IDEALISM.

p/s : I have never been to Starbucks

[ a k h i r ]

Aku dan kehidupan baruku..

Setelah 4 bulan tidak menulis aku rasa terpanggil untuk kembali menaip bait ayat2 tunggang langgang yang sekian lama aku praktikkan dalam blog ni. 4 bulan bukanla satu jangkamasa yang lama tapi banyak betul rasenye peristiwa yang masih tersave rapi di dalam hard disk pemikiranku. aku listkan yang aku rasa significant

1 jun - notis perletakan jawatan sebulan kat UKM
30 jun - last day in UKM
1 july - k e r j a b a r u
ogos sehingga sekarang - MISERABLE yang amat

Terlalu banyak untuk diceritakan..

[ a k h i r ]

Nikon or Canon?

Last Sunday night, we had a ‘doa selamat’. Plan ahead to drive back to melaka on Friday. Last minute plan, Saturday morning drove to Kota Kemuning, met Kd at Kemuning Greenville Archway. We are not mentally and technically prepared when my maktih call 2 days earlier and said ‘paktih free on sabtu’. Being a professional wildlife photographer for at least 20 years, he was fundamentally and technically prepared to provoke us. Nah…

Paktih is a Canon keen user while kd always told me that Nikon body produce exceptional quality picture. ‘No matter Nikon or Canon, both are good. But if u get hold of canon body, I have all canon equipments that u can make use of.. wide, macro lenses, 200mm, 500mm telephoto, flashgun,’ paktih offered. omg…

After 2 hours of lectured, kd said, I will go for Canon 30d body.

‘Take my 50d with u for the ’doa selamat’ together with 580 flashgun.’ Paktih said. Yummy.. However maktih insist. ‘Iwan pakai maktih punye 450d je pon ok’

Most pics I fire that night were excessively common.. after photoshoping, 4 were special.. for me at least..

Kd sms me last night.. ‘aku rase nak angkat body 40d la’

Only in U*M

There were so much money being poured in to the institution. Believe what u see. This is for real. If you want this exclusivity, apply for a job here.

Just my 2 cents..

Orang yang berjaya MENCARI PELUANG

Orang yang kurang berjaya MENCARI ALASAN

Orang yang berjaya MEMBINA RANGKAIAN(NETWORKING)

Orang yang kurang berjaya bertanye, 'NETWORKING tu ape??'

Definition of rich

How you define ‘rich’. Having 1 million, owning piece of real estate in the elite area, complete with swimming pool, have a secure high paying job, or owning a Bugatti Veyron 16.4. hehe..

Rich/wealth as defined by Robert Kiyosaki is the number of days which you can survive if you stop working TODAY.

So as long as you can survive without working, you are being rich.

It’s all about CASHFLOWS. Riches in, riches out.

Your monthly expense is 2000. If you quit your job with 10000 in saving, then you are being rich for 5 months. 

What’s yours..

She's my cousin